How to turn off markers only in referenced files?

Is it possible to turn off markers in referenced files? I use files with many references, which have their own markers. I want them to be turned off, as I don't need them at the moment.

Grzegorz
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  • Hello Grzegorz,

    I have had similar question quite a while ago. The answer is twofold:

    1. If you want to turn off all markers, both for the active file and the references, it can be done with this setting:

    As long as the reference presentation is set to "From parent", the markers in the reference file(s) will follow the View Flags of the parent view.

    2.  If you want to have only the markers visible for the active file, and turn off those for the references, I'm afraid that is not possible. It is something I have been looking for as well some time ago, I believe an Enhancement was filed for it. But I can't find the number.

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  • Hello Grzegorz,

    I have had similar question quite a while ago. The answer is twofold:

    1. If you want to turn off all markers, both for the active file and the references, it can be done with this setting:

    As long as the reference presentation is set to "From parent", the markers in the reference file(s) will follow the View Flags of the parent view.

    2.  If you want to have only the markers visible for the active file, and turn off those for the references, I'm afraid that is not possible. It is something I have been looking for as well some time ago, I believe an Enhancement was filed for it. But I can't find the number.

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  • 2.  If you want to have only the markers visible for the active file, and turn off those for the references, I'm afraid that is not possible. It is something I have been looking for as well some time ago, I believe an Enhancement was filed for it. But I can't find the number.

    I created a new MS Idea: View flag for "markers" in reference | MicroStation Ideas Portal (aha.io). In case you are interested, feel free to vote.

  • Hi Johan,

    thank You, I gave my vote to your MS Idea.

  • I posted these before for other view attribute changes.....

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    But here are a few I just tested the part that precedes the true or false is the view attribute feature only trial and error worked for me to work out if its two words or a single word.. but true or false gives on or off.. these work great in batch process .. but remember people can switch things back on or off in the View attributes tool ( only tested in V8i SS10)

    MDL KEYIN BENTLEY.VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG,VAD VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG SETATTRIBUTE 0 ClipVolume False
    MDL KEYIN BENTLEY.VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG,VAD VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG SETATTRIBUTE 0 ClipVolume True
    MDL KEYIN BENTLEY.VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG,VAD VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG SETATTRIBUTE 0 Fill True
    MDL KEYIN BENTLEY.VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG,VAD VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG SETATTRIBUTE 0 Fill False
    MDL KEYIN BENTLEY.VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG,VAD VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG SETATTRIBUTE 0 ACStriad False
    MDL KEYIN BENTLEY.VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG,VAD VIEWATTRIBUTESDIALOG SETATTRIBUTE 0 ACStriad False
    ---------------------------- snip ------------------------------------

    you'll have to do trial and  error for the word for MARKERS and  ends in FALSE to turn off..

    Then you can  put the keyin onto a batch process script it ends with FILEDESIGN so it saves the setting and run it with the batch processor utility  over all the files you want it to fix. IMHO markers  are more trouble than they are  worth. So I have it  set to   off in my all my seed files and for all my  fellow users, perhaps you should do the same to prevent this happening again.

    I hope this helps work around your  problems...

    Lorys

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  • Then you can  put the keyin onto a batch process script it ends with FILEDESIGN so it saves the setting and run it with the batch processor utility  over all the files you want it to fix

    Hi Lorys,

    If I understand correctly (I'm not too familiar with batch processor), what you propose is to fix a number of files. In all of these files the script would turn off the view flag for markers, right?

    How will that help for the reference files? 

    The situation we are looking for is that the markers remain visible for the ACTIVE design file but be turned off for the references.

  • How will that help for the reference files? 

    It doesn't, and I'm not sure why anyone would even think of using those key-ins in a batch script either, especially when a more palatable syntax is available

    set markers off; selview all