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...
Mark Plum the reason I like utilities sperate is because utility features tend to be extremely similar in every jurisdiction. With a separate utility library, I can easily migrate the library from state to state and town to town with very little effort other than changing levels in the element templates.
Robert Garrett Senior Consultant
www.envisioncad.com
We are advising all our clients to skip the mega use of wildcards for loading libraries and instead explicitly define every file needed in the CFG file. This has two benefits:
Robert,
Great Reply, Character length still does still matter! Also special characters matter. I have seen ORD issues with use of special characters in feature definitions, file names and even folders on Projectwise. i.e. we had files in Projectwise that weren't printing correctly. The folder had special characters so we renamed the folder and the problem was solved.
Regards,
Zane Pratt
Civil Designer
ILikeTheFactThatTheFileNameTellsWhatsInTheFileButYeahThereAreCharacterAndDecencyLImits.dgnlib
:-)
I am suggesting your most recent post, Jeff, as an answer to our issue.
Mark