Under the old Microstation V8 2004 edition if you selected fit all/fit view command it would show the view with the empty unused data fields which might be outside the drawing border.
This was quite good for location spurious empty data fields. Under Microstation V8i when you select fit all/fit view it only selects the drawing border and if there are any unused data fields
located outside the drawing border then they are not shown in the view.
Note: If the data field has contents then it does show in the view.
Garry Farquhar said:Under Microstation V8i
What version (e.g. v10.x.y.z) of MicroStation, or other product, are you using?
Garry Farquhar said:when you select fit all/fit view it only selects the drawing border and if there are any unused data fields located outside the drawing border then they are not shown in the view
when you select fit all/fit view it only selects the drawing border and if there are any unused data fields located outside the drawing border then they are not shown in the view
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
RCM-01_AX7.DGN
version: 08.11.09.459
The old V8 would adjust to fit the empty data fields(top right outside the border)
FWIW It also ignores the data fields using fit view in V8i SS10 and CE12
I stopped using data fields many years ago when I finally found out how to use tags properly... also we never were able to edit text inside cells but we have been able to do that for years now... IMHO data fields are like button up shoes.. good for when they were new but now technology improvements have done away with them and made them obsolete but they are there for legacy for old drawings
Inside title blocks tags are way better.... and for ce we can now use ITEM types...
If you want help on tags and tag reports if you havent gone over to CE do a search this forum for a post I did containing "tags 101".. probably in archives but very helpful tutorial I learnt so much from it I posted it for all of us to use.. as so little documentation was available from bentley a lot people just didnt bother with tags ...from then on I used them for a lot of things especially extract info and make reports ie area measurements , costing etc, bill of materials etc etc...
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE update 16 (10.16.00.80)
MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.click link to PM me
Hi,
We still use enter data fields for our detail callouts. We have not found anything better. All we have to do is enter the text that we want.
--Robert
It was only my opinion and experience that data fields for new plans are more trouble than they are worth, I prefer to use cells with preformatted text or tags ... but if data edit fields are working efficiently in your work flow then great, but more recent improvements have added more functionality, and the fact that V8i onwards hasn't allowed the fit view to recognise them means that they probably wont be fixed any future versions.... perhaps we need a vba that will do the true fit view to look for data fields too... any takers?