Level Number Map

Hello Jon: I am a one-man company and the way I learned is still the way I like it. I don't get into massive projects that have hundreds of levels. I am a machine designer, so the original 63 levels that were available back in the day are enough for me. I also don't use names. I work with heavy machinery, but not a lot of parts. Mostly original work so I don't want to mess with names because I don't know any names while I am dreaming up what something is going to look like.

So rather than scroll through a long list it is easiest for me to just turn everything off real quick and turn on only what I want to see. So the original 63 level number map with circles is great for me.

Hello Jon: I am a one-man company and the way I learned is still the way I like it. I don't get into massive projects that have hundreds of levels. I am a machine designer, so the original 63 levels that were available back in the day are enough for me. I also don't use names. I work with heavy machinery, but not a lot of parts. Mostly original work so I don't want to mess with names because I don't know any names while I am dreaming up what something is going to look like.

So rather than scroll through a long list it is easiest for me to just turn everything off real quick and turn on only what I want to see. So the original 63 level number map with circles is great for me.

do you draw everything on one level ?

How do you determine what goes on which level in the design file ?

The view display should give you the same ability to quickly turn off/on levels - or you can always right click on an element in the file and turn it off and not even open the level display dialog. 

Don't draw everything on one level but many designs may have only 10 or 40...not hundreds. And I can turn them off easy enough..turning them on though is a bit more cumbersome if I have to scroll down a list..Just a user preference really and it would seem so simple to have..I am just not learned in writing custom stuff. Dont see why it was eliminated but I am not a programmer.

I too miss the simplicity of level numbers, but upgrading to names was pretty much a necessity. Microstation still assigns a number to each level, but they no longer function as before, ie you can't say of=140 for a layer called Wall that happens to be number 140. That being said, you can simply create or rename your levels to plain old numbers. Then they will function as before. When you bring a file forward to v8, it will change Level "1" to "Level 1", you can just rename it.

Yes I have done that. My levels have a name "1" , "2" etc They don't even say 'level'. So really its all setup the way I like. Now if I could just have an MDL or something to create the 10x8 grid of circles in the Level Display box it would be back to 'normal' for this old user.

how do you keep track of what is on each level ? 

Meaning - 3 weeks later you open the file and lets say levels 1,5, and 25 are on and all the rest are off and you need to see some piece or part that is turned off - how do you know what level to turn on ?