Can a complete cell Library be placed as one?

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Good day everyone 
 I am trying to place all cells within a library in a single placement, but I can not see if it is even possible. I believe I saw someone once enter the entire content of the cell library in a array format and displaying each individual cell in a single entry, but I can not seem to remember who or where I saw it being done. 
 Can anyone help me with this? 
 Thank you

Lorys · Accepted Answer

I have never been able to get this to work as expected in V8i, that's why we use Cellutilities ( Cellutil.ma) from the resources forum 
 I have downloaded and posted it here for you for V8i only... 
 CellUtilities.zip 
 the html file is the instructions .. there is a delete function DONT use it. This will delete cells and or cell library from network drive 
 It makes nice dgn of all you cells placed into the active dgn to look like a book you can even batch print them to single multipage pdf and send around your std libraries to all company users and can see what each cell looks like and is called, you an even make lists from the mdl to csv or text this will help reduce duplication and help to standardise your cells...

Tim Hickman · Answer

look for "place cell index" 
 https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/MicroStation%20Help-v16/en/PlaceCellIndex.html

Tim Hickman · Answer

the place cell index is in SS4 as well.

Lorys · Answer

Unzip save contents in any folder you want I like to have c:\xtraMDLS or you can just put it where you have mdlapps 
 C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\MicroStation\mdlsys\asneeded or where your cfg points to extra mdls 
 then first thing you do is OPEN & READ the HTML file inside the zip it describes how to run it and steps before you run it... 
 Remember all mdls can be run from key in MDL LOAD and enter will bring up browse to the mdl by its name

Lorys · Answer

yes ...it does but this is my book mark and it looks like only v8, v8i tools 
 https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/m/bentley_library_utilities 
 and this one has some stuff for CE but be careful there 
 https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/m/microstation_gallery 
 BTW 
 I'm in Melbourne Australia and work for a Medium engineering consultancy as drafter Transport roads and rail drafting group ... 
 Where are you?

Ivo Blaauw · Answer

Using Place Cell Index and how to get it working The Place Cell Index command does not work like you intended to while you're in a regular dgn. It only places the models from the CURRENT file that are checked "Can be placed as a cell". So you have to open the cell library itself first (not attach it, but open the file as if you're going to edit it), create an empty model to build the index in and then you can start the command to place the cell index. That will create a grid with all the cells sorted by name. They are not placed as cells; all references. This procedure allows for the creation of screen menu's. I've not tested if the screen menu commands work though. Using Cell Utilities For ease of use and fast result you're better of using CellUtilities. It allows you to sort by Name, but also by Desription or Date of creation. Lorys was right to mention this gem. Using HTML Author If you wish to create an oversight of cells with capability to create an cell-interface from it, you may also want to take a look at the HTML Author. HTML Author lets you create a webpage with pictures of all the cells. This page can in turn be used as an interface to drive the Place Cell tool within Microstation. You can customize the HTML to your needs and add a company logo. In SelectSeries go to pulldown menu Utilities>3rd from the top. Good luck Jeffrey

Can a complete cell Library be placed as one?

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