Unable to handle multiple sheet drawings .. ?!

Offline Mikkel Bennedbaek over 12 years ago

Hi There!

I was just wondering when it would be possible to handle multiple title blocks in dgn files with multible sheets?

It is common to have the same title block tag set in several sheets but as far as I know, ProjectWIse can only handle one (or all as it was one).

This would of cause require one unique id for each sheet (besides of the document id) and a corrosponding atrribute page for each sheet, but it would be a great improvement! (No need for more than one attribute page in the dialog - instead there should be "Next sheet"- / "Previous sheet"- buttons in that!)

Sheet names could be added to the tag name in ProjectWise so they would maintain unique for ProjectWise and the db, eg.: SHEET1|drwdate, SHEET2|drwdate, ...

Please let me know if aboe is all rubbish an nonsense to you guys .. :)

Mikkel

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Offline shenry Sun, Mar 20 2011 11:29 PM

I would also like to see this functionality included with ProjectWise. Requested it eight years ago, and our Bentley rep documented the solution. Looked like it was going to be incorporated but then.......

Still waiting.

Stephen
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Scott Turner Mon, Mar 21 2011 1:38 AM in reply to shenry

Ditto that here. I've also run this past Bentley and would get quite a bit of benefit out of this. One other requirement: If the individual paper space tabs where then saved off to their own files (prior to delivery), PW should also know to create the corresponding attributes and potentially audit trail entries as well.
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Scott Turner Mon, Mar 21 2011 1:38 AM in reply to shenry

Ditto that here. I've also run this past Bentley and would get quite a bit of benefit out of this. One other requirement: If the individual paper space tabs where then saved off to their own files (prior to delivery), PW should also know to create the corresponding attributes and potentially audit trail entries as well.
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David Keam Mon, Mar 21 2011 2:19 AM in reply to Scott Turner

I believe this is a significant oversight by Bentley. Multiple models have been part of the dgn file format since V8 and that's a long time. InRoads has been generating multiple cross-section sheets in a single dgn for even longer. For cross-sections and occasionally long-sections we use multiple attribute sheets for single dgn to keep our ProjectWise records correct but title block integration is a nightmare. I think ProjectWise should allow association with a model in a dgn and InRoads should put each sheet in a set of cross-sections into a different model. Maybe 2 CRs?
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Offline Scott Soper Thu, Mar 24 2011 3:10 PM in reply to David Keam
At WSDOT, we have used multiple sheet files since we began with Intergraph. We currently have the ability to automatically place up to 40 sheets in a file.

When we began using ProjectWise in 2005 we realized that in order to integrate attributes we would need to move to single sheet per file. This was not meet with enthusiasm by our users.

Now, due to other factors, we are looking at single sheet files again, but I still think it would be advantageous if we had the option to apply attribute integration to multiple sheet files.
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