How much longer will RSC files be around?

RSC files seem like such old technology, is there a programming reason the Bentley is keeping them around. Unless you use them every day or at least once a week, it is difficult at best to get in and edit and create ne linestyles. What are Bentley's plans for phasing them out?

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  • I think it's a less a question of when Bentley plan's on phasing them out and when we users plan on stop using them. RSC files can contain 2 resources, fonts and custom line styles. V8i added support for True Type fonts along with rsc fonts and Connect adds that custom line styles can be stored in dgnlibs instead of rsc files.

    I know OpenRoads Designer (and OpenRail and I think OpenBridge) ship a set of custom true type fonts, not sure they can replace all the custom rsc fonts out there but I'd at least look at what they can do. (true type font editors are fairly widely available but I'm not sure how easy/hard they are to use or how much they cost)

    Custom line styles from an RSC file can be imported into a dgnlib. I didn't try but based on the help it appears you can now edit custom line styles stored in dgnlibs. I saw a couple of web pages that said that wasn't possible.

    Line Style Editor Dialog (bentley.com)

    MicroStation Tip: Import Linestyles into a DGN Library – EnvisionCAD

    it is difficult at best to get in and edit and create ne linestyles

    I suspect this has more to do with the interface for editing linestyles rather than the file format they're stored in. The opening part is improved by using a DGNLib as you just open the dgnlib directly in MicroStation, but as far as I can tell it's the same interface otherwise.

    Most of the OpenRoads workspaces I've been setting up (and I setup all our US DOT workspaces) seem to be moving away from rsc files to true type and dgnlib but they still ship the old resources as they probably have finished the transistion yet.

     

  • when we users plan on stop using them.

    We are not using RSC and also using RGB colors but it is headache as there are multiple issues and apparently Bentley still uses RSC and index colors(see delivered examples). Heck even Openroads doesn't support 3D lines styles which are embedded. As resource administration part is still from 90ties then RSC are still used. I do not understand this attitude that CADD managers are left with morally outdated tools just because it backstage and no one sees it. 

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  • when we users plan on stop using them.

    We are not using RSC and also using RGB colors but it is headache as there are multiple issues and apparently Bentley still uses RSC and index colors(see delivered examples). Heck even Openroads doesn't support 3D lines styles which are embedded. As resource administration part is still from 90ties then RSC are still used. I do not understand this attitude that CADD managers are left with morally outdated tools just because it backstage and no one sees it. 

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