So we are still in the early days of adopting ORD in my organization. I was wondering if anyone has seen any performance difference between using multiple models in a single dgn VS using multiple DGNs?
our previous method was to create multiple DGNs and reference them as parts of the drawings. what I'm wondering is if theres a benefit to say placing all the parts of a design model in the same dgn and just using model spaces to separate them.
For Example a Detour.dgn would have the following as models:
-Detour Alignment
-Detour Corridor
-Detour Terrain
-Detour Earthwork
I was thinking the main benefit would just be reducing the number of separate files we generate but was also hoping that maybe it comes with fewer crashes and better functionality??
Are you not using .dgnlibs?? these are propagated to everyfile in a workset and it keeps all the annotations uniform for the whole company and project. if however you need to do specific edits for a particular project thats still possible by changing the workset dgn lib for that specific project. bit of a pain honestly cause im never sure what setting where is the issue till i finally track it but once its fixed it stays across the board.
Or is this part of that Last Mile Utility? when we break out our sheets we do it by creating them in each file. IE PNP-1-4 has a default model with all the references and the named boundaries for sheets 1-4. the next file has the same but starts at 5-9. and the benefit is mainly for controlling references as we tend not to place any text on the actual sheets at all. for instance levels not showing up
Dustin, You will not have those show up with your sheet dgn files when sending Sheets out to their own files. Give it a try, you'll likely see the same as my image above! ;D Edit: Adding another image here from within the DGN file the sheets were made FROM... Notice the two separate dgn files defined within the Saved View (again, made automatically) and the presence of the Annotation Group used by said sheets.
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what process are you using to "Send them out" sorry i edited my previous comment but we dont export them to individual files we create them as individual files to start with.
Create Drawing Dialog used by the Place Named Boundary tool gives the option to enable "One Sheet Per Dgn" or add a "Filename" for your Drawing Models and Sheet Models. Here's the tool in use: https://learn.bentley.com/app/VideoPlayer/LinkToIndividualCourse?LearningPathID=113539&CourseId=129666&MediaID=5014992
awe you mean the automated process doesnt work right. JK it should but yeah i see your point. we specifically dont check that box just do a file save as and create the next sheet from the named boundaries.
i do wonder if it has something to do with seed sheet location maybe that needs to be in the project folder? or maybe the seed file needs to have