openroads style manager

Feature Definitions are normally stored in DGNLIB's, The software, by defaults, defines three locations that these may be stored. One is under the Organization-Civil folder, one is under the selected WorkSpace folder and finally, under the selected WorkSet folder.

However, you may have noticed as you work in a DGN file, any Feature Definitions you use get copied into the active file. Which means, you can create them in any file, but only Feature Definitions created in a DGNLIB and stored in the proper folders will be available for any DGN file.

You also need to understand how Feature Definitions get certain display properties from Feature Symbologies and that Feature Symbologies get their graphics settings from Element Templates.

And, to complicate things further, some Feature Definitions actually point at other Feature Definitions, while certain settings in Feature Definitions point directly at Element Templates directly as well.

As we worked on our agency's Open Roads configuration, I found it necessary to create a matrix in Excel that showed which Feature Definitions and settings used which other settings. This was the only way I could keep things straight and it helped me organize the structures within these items in a logical manner.

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Feature Definitions are normally stored in DGNLIB's, The software, by defaults, defines three locations that these may be stored. One is under the Organization-Civil folder, one is under the selected WorkSpace folder and finally, under the selected WorkSet folder.

However, you may have noticed as you work in a DGN file, any Feature Definitions you use get copied into the active file. Which means, you can create them in any file, but only Feature Definitions created in a DGNLIB and stored in the proper folders will be available for any DGN file.

You also need to understand how Feature Definitions get certain display properties from Feature Symbologies and that Feature Symbologies get their graphics settings from Element Templates.

And, to complicate things further, some Feature Definitions actually point at other Feature Definitions, while certain settings in Feature Definitions point directly at Element Templates directly as well.

As we worked on our agency's Open Roads configuration, I found it necessary to create a matrix in Excel that showed which Feature Definitions and settings used which other settings. This was the only way I could keep things straight and it helped me organize the structures within these items in a logical manner.

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