I don't like dgnlibs because it is not obvious what is stored in which dgnlib.
Now we have level libraries in dgnlibs. Which is the active file looks in another file for the data.
So why can't we have the active file look in something more transparent and readable than a dgn? Like a csv, or a xls, which can be viewed parallel to the active dgn in ustn.
It would also be much easier to edit than through LM in ustn.
Thomas I have to disagree dgn libs are awesome and easy to find
you just have to be clever what you name them and where you put them then make sure the work space config knows where they are ...
eg for levels
We have drive\xxx\mstn\stds\levels
in that we have
Archi.dgnlib
Survey.dgnlib
Services.dgnlib etc
under the standards folder I also have another folder for text and dim styles dgnlibs.
Another for tool bars custom for differenet disciplines I have different interface.dgnlibs applied when you use specific work spaces...
So Mr's Bentley dont go changing dgnlibs now they are awsome once you learn how they work..
BTw you can even make a macro or F key to load specific dgn libs...
but for levels I use the level manger import/attach levels and choose the dgnlib of choice for the discipline name needed....
Lorys
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Unknown said: dgn libs are awesome and easy to find you just have to be clever what you name them and where you put them then make sure the work space config knows where they are
dgn libs are awesome and easy to find
you just have to be clever what you name them and where you put them then make sure the work space config knows where they are
But where is it explained in any way that's designed to be effectively communicative, rather than some geeky circular-referential illiteracy, which you can see is kinda pedantically true only after you already understand it?
How did you come to understand all this? not from any publicly available documentation, I bet, but incrementally from your existing long experience in the Bentley walled garden and/or from long computer-immersion generally.
Bentley keeps introducing things but never bothers to explain them, confident that their only 'audience' that matters is old-hand individuals and corporates' IT departments.
Foster Tom
From our dear Friend Keith Little's ( gone to be with God now) book survivors guide to v8 pages 207 through to 236 then the XM addendum also has a lot to say on dgnlibs. And strangely enough the Help file and AskInga and lots of posts here!
Bentley like all software companies want you to go and PAY for Training and upskilling next versions..
I have had very generous employers in the past who have allowed me to attend these and also bentley Learn site has been a boon .. and now we have the SIGS ...which I encourage you to attend your/ I'm always learning something new about msnt... plus I'm a bit of a mstn nerd! it helps...