Hi
I have a water distribution system drawn in microstation where all the pipes have been classified by their sizes ( by several levels). my boss wants me to add another level to the drawing which indicates the content of pipes (rather than their sizes) but he wants this two levels be linked together so that every time they make a change on let say level 1 level 2 can automatically be updated accordingly ( without manually assigning the changes). is there such an option in Microstation. If anyone can help me I will be very grateful.
Thanks
You can use a multi line stacked both with offset 0. However you are limited to lines and linestrings, no arcs
Hi David,
Thanks alot for suggesting the multi line solution. it is actually what I need to do but I have another issue. I change the level of each profile in the Multi line Style dialoge box and it works well but as soon as I save the file the program automatically brings them all back to active level. is there any way that I can make the changes (on level section) permanent. it is really annoying I spent so much time on seting up all the styles and once I saved them all of them went back to active level.
Are you doing a Save or a File>Save Settings? I believe you need to do a Save Settings for changes to hold.
Neither of File save or Save settings worked:-(
Go back and add a linestyle via overrides and give up on multilines ... just too many limitations this feature was made originally in early version mstn for architechts to draw walls no curves no arcs .. really awful drawback only changes since v5 for dos is can now have fills .. or were they always there and we didnt realise... The internationally adopted linestyles for services for all infra structure in english speaking countries is the only way to change context eg
----G---- is gas
----w--- is water
----S---- is sewer
if you want sizes then create new line style ---Gx150D---
or put your level names for sizes and use ....line style for type use overrides and draw by level and you can update everything very easliy by change of level override lienstyle..
Send me or upload a typical clip of a representative area and I/ we will do it for you and you can just copy the settings... to see how easy it would be...
and we can stop all this to-ing an frowing and get you a good result and make you look like a mstn genius..
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
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