OS is Windows 10, Microstation version is v8.11.9.578
I have placed a fence around an area of interest on a DGN drawing created by someone else. This drawing contains a topographic contour elevation map with highway alignments. I want to delete everything outside of the fence to reduce the file size. The pull-down menus available at top of screen are File, Edit, Element, Settings, Tools, Utilities, Workspace, Window, and Help. I found some instructions for pre-v8i. Anybody? Thanks.
there are a couple of ways to do this, make a back up first , so you can go back to original, now only work on the back upcopy
1st way you want to delete a lot of data, create a fence easiest way just 2 point block top left to bottom right while holding down the left mouse button to define the extent of the fence, set the fence to void clip, then from the fence tools modify select delete fence contents and accept by data point any where on screen, this will then remove everything outside the fence and trim any that cross the fence leaving only the fence contents.
2nd way
create the same fence same place but use clip instead of void and key in FF= and press enter you will be prompted for a file name and path to save the contents
this will then clip contents of the fence and create a new file with only the trimmed out or cut content of the fence, now you have both the old big and new smaller file
3rd way,
create a new file and ref attach the original untouched topo file, place a fence and use clip, now from ref manager select clip reference, choose the fence option and data point to accept now only the area of interest is visible from ref manager
now from the ref manager select merge ref and data point to accept you now have only the clipped contents in your new file ... this is my prefered way .
Tip go to the source file first draw a Box so you can see the area you want, then when you ref attach this topo you can quickly see where you wanted to capture, use fence element , clip to place your fence.. then clip ref and merge.
Delete the box elements of your box, return to the original file and put some text on a unused or new level and annotate inside the box the file name you clipped it to for quick reference later...
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