Hi,
I have heard rumors in hushed voices that "Bentley is now recommending that we consolidate all of our DGNLIBs into one."
Surely NOT EVERYBODY was Kung Fu Fighting! Right?
I know the value of Federation, particularly by discipline (Bridge, Utilities, Civil, Survey). I know the disadvantage of consolidating into a single omnibus.dgnlib (twenty surgeons working on the same spleen doesn't work very well).
My questions to Bentley and the Community:
Asking for a friend's spleen...
My 2 cents: No, not a single DGNLIB for everything but I do favor keeping things compact per discipline. For example:
This greatly simplifies library maintenance
Robert Garrett Senior Consultant
www.envisioncad.com
Robert:
My two pennies here...
Library 1 has all which you have stated but also utilities (a single library for drainage AND utilities).
Library 2 and 3, identical to what you have here.
What we really have done is to be rid of the separate text favorites and labeler dgnlib's.
Best Regards,
Mark
Oh, and one other thing: Jeff asked "If consolidating into fewer, what are the advantages to balance out the disadvantages?" I do suppose that one large library will load faster than many libraries of the same combined size (advantage). The disadvantage is also provided by Jeff: that is " I know the disadvantage of consolidating into a single omnibus dgnlib (twenty surgeons working on the same spleen doesn't work very well)".