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My thoughts and fears on using text styles in Border-Seed-Files.

Raphael :)
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Hello,

I have a bad feeling regarding text styles and its application on Border-Seed-Files.

As an example, the following configuration:

- In a DGN.lib I have all my text styles and are available ion every drawings.
- I have created new Border-Seed-Files with these text styles and the used styles are now integrated as a local style in the Border-Seed-File (recognizable by the blue tick in the text style window).

So far everything is ok.

But now my thoughts and fears ....

If somebody later changes and saves one of the used text styles, all texts in this drawing will be adjusted accordingly.
This would lead to texts from the Border being changed unintentionally!?

So my question is, does it make sense to work in a Border-Seed-File with text styles or should it be better to put all the texts on text style "none" at the end just before releasing them?

I hope I could explain my fears and would be glad if you could tell me your personal opinions and how you are working on that.

Many Thanks
Regards
Raphael

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    Hello Jon,
    I did not want to start a detailed discussion about file integrity in this post, but just ask if it really exists and might even be useful for checking for text style standards.

    If necessary, I will create a new post for discuss this.

    Regarding our problem with the text styles, I just talked to a colleague about a possible solution.

    It's clear that we want to incorporate text style into our seedfiles, and they should be used as well. But in order to exclude unwanted changes to our seed files (borders), we have now considered a different approach, which we could apply to our cell libraries as well, as there could exist the same problem.

    We want, after creating a new border seed files and / or a new cell (library), delete all used text styles in order to set the style for each elements to "none".
    But the whole pakage of text styles aswell dimension styles from the dgn.lib will be imported to each new seed border file.

    Thus, the styles would be available for drawing, but without presenting a risk for the borders and cells....!

    Could this be a acceptable way?

    Thanks
    Regards
    Raphael

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    Hello Jon,
    I did not want to start a detailed discussion about file integrity in this post, but just ask if it really exists and might even be useful for checking for text style standards.

    If necessary, I will create a new post for discuss this.

    Regarding our problem with the text styles, I just talked to a colleague about a possible solution.

    It's clear that we want to incorporate text style into our seedfiles, and they should be used as well. But in order to exclude unwanted changes to our seed files (borders), we have now considered a different approach, which we could apply to our cell libraries as well, as there could exist the same problem.

    We want, after creating a new border seed files and / or a new cell (library), delete all used text styles in order to set the style for each elements to "none".
    But the whole pakage of text styles aswell dimension styles from the dgn.lib will be imported to each new seed border file.

    Thus, the styles would be available for drawing, but without presenting a risk for the borders and cells....!

    Could this be a acceptable way?

    Thanks
    Regards
    Raphael

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