Can someone make this awesome little program to work with Connect edition?

From the program, Select your paper size and scale, place it in your design, select fence by boundary, print and choose the the same paper size as you placed and you get right size and scale!
Easy!

//Tom

From the program, Select your paper size and scale, place it in your design, select fence by boundary, print and choose the the same paper size as you placed and you get right size and scale!
Easy!

//Tom

You will need VBA anyway as the named boundaries take too much steps. The sheet management in Microstation seems more like hacking not a real workflow at least each time when I try to introduce to users it quickly ends in disaster and they start to scratch their heads and rollback to oldschool methods. 

ok - so all you are doing is placing a shape in the file for you to snap to for placing your fence for plotting. No border, nothing.....

I am not saying the program is good or bad, but you can create similar shapes as cells in a cell library (one for 8.5x11, etc...)

In your model, select the needed annotation scale, select the needed cell shape (you have created) and have the annotation scale lock on and the cell will be scaled properly for placement. Once placed, snap as you have done and select the same paper size. This workflow should get you what you are use to.

Hi Tim

Is it possible to create an shape in cell that you can place fence by element in a cell?

And yes, this vba is only to place an shape in selected papersize and scale in your model, then place fence by element on the shape element, chose the same papersize in print dialog box, fit fence to paper and print (mostly used to do an quick pdf file in right scale/paper to be printed by client as pdf without scaling to right size of paper and they get right scale).

There is also a second reason why I used this and that was to place coordinate crosses and coordinate text beside crosses:

To get the right coordinates to crosses you must be in right geolocated place (model) not in paper space.

//Tom

yes it is possible to use the fence type>element on the cell (shape) that has been placed in the file.

Thanks Tim

I belive I tested this years ago, don´t remember why I didn`t go further with it but I try it again. It is smart idea if you create the frame cell in scale 1:1000, then you only have to scale it 2,0=1:2000, 0,2=1:200, 1,0=1:1000.

I have also test if I can create only one Iso size A1 and this size scales to all th different Iso A standards:

# METRIC resolution
ISO A4 (297,210);0,210;0,297
ISO A3 (420,297);0,297;0,420
ISO A2 (594,420);0,420;0,594
ISO A1 (841,594);0,594;0,841
ISO A0 (1189,841);0,841;1,189

If this don´t work a need to create one cell/Iso frame size.

//Tom