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
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?
ThanksRegardsRaphael
Unknown said:there would still be the problem that our drawings are regularly processed by internal and external contractors
Consider publishing your drawings as an i-Model. An i-Model is a complete, self-contained package designed to answer exactly your question.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Unknown said:I read about the possibility to check drawings for standard integrity
Please post a new question about standards checking or quality assurance (QA) in a new thread!
Helloand thanks for sharing your opinions.
My thoughts of a clean system are in line with your statements.Unfortunately, we can not cover everything so easily.For our small group this could still work, if there were not the general network problem .....For various reasons, we currently have all the resources locally on the PC's.One major reason is to be able to continue working even in the case of network failure.And more recently, cloud delusions have broken out in our company and we are no longer allowed to store data on our local network but we must use our cloud services (Sharepoint and One-Drive) .... which, in my opinion, is an absolute no-go.
Maybe it could be possible to solve this problem by a specially shared network structure, if the company will allow this.
Then there would still be the problem that our drawings are regularly processed by internal and external contractors / subcontractors, and there again I see the problem that text styles in the given drawings can be changed intentionally or unintentionally.
How could we handle this problem for external editing?
At the same time I think about something else ....I read about the possibility to check drawings for standard integrity.How does it work and could it be used to quickly find out if non-standard text-styles was used?
Thanks
Best regardsRaphael
Even within the same file text styles can bite you in the tushy. I've got in the habit of never clicking save for a text style change, unless I'm adjusting standard stuff. Others use different approach, creating many text styles to satisfy their needs. You can use the Annotation Lock in conjunction with the scale to account for different drawing scales.
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