Cannot Detach reference from "Managed Model"

This is nonsense. Civil software should not interfere with my ability to do my drafting.

We have a project, with several people working on it. Apparently, someone got into my sheet files using InRoads (probably SS4) to do something, and now every one of my sheets is a "managed model". I am working in vanilla MicroStation SS4. I can attach references all I want, but I am not allowed to detach any of them. I get the "You cannot Detach a model from a managed model. The operation is cancelled" message.

I am not in Inroads. I just attached the file a few minutes earlier. but I'm still not allowed to detach it?? Because somewhere along the lines, someone with IR SS4 opened my file?

How can I strip all "design" information out of my sheets so that they can be drafted like any other sheet file without this "managed model" nonsense?
How do I UN-manage a model?

I know that I can start IR SS4 and detach the references in question. I shouldn't have to do that.
I shouldn't have to waste an InRoads license just to detach a couple of useless references.
Especially since the refs in question weren't even attached with InRoads!!

Please fix this so that the draftspeople of the world can get our jobs done.

MaryB

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  • In a related note, one of these plan sheets has a ThreeD Space model in the DGN file that appears to have been created and attached quite on accident. I have NO ability (in or out of InRoads) to detach or delete this model.

    WHY?

    How do we clean out drawings that end up with civil design data created by accident?
    Or are we stuck with all this nonsense cluttering up our files forever?

    MaryB

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  • I've seen this and my only fix was to use the Save as and click on the options button and go to where you can filter what is saved. One button is for selecting models to export. With it, you can select only the desired model.

    When you get back to the Save as button, it will complain and the message will seem to indicate it will fail. But when you are done.the file will exist without the unwanted model. 


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
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  • I've seen this and my only fix was to use the Save as and click on the options button and go to where you can filter what is saved. One button is for selecting models to export. With it, you can select only the desired model.

    When you get back to the Save as button, it will complain and the message will seem to indicate it will fail. But when you are done.the file will exist without the unwanted model. 


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
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