I might be completely in the left field here but I seem to be misunderstanding how Survey DGNLIBs work... Hear me out.
I have a Survey_Settings.dgnlib file in which I stored all of my survey feature definitions, all my linear and point feature definitions, all of my element templates, survey annotation etc. If I load my survey data into this particular dgnlib file, everything works fine (cells, linework, annotation etc.). I'm stoked about that.
So I associate this Survey_Settings.dgnlib file to a WorkSpace and I load this Survey_Settings.dgnlib through my WorkSpace configuration file (*.cfg).
My understanding is that I could open a new drawing, from a fresh 3D ORD delivered seedFile (ie: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\OpenRoads Designer CE 10.10\Configuration\Organization-Civil\_Civil Default Standards - Metric\Seed\Seed3D - Metric Design.dgn) and I could use all the survey settings from the loaded library, right?
If I open the explorer under OpenRoads Standards, I can see that the Survey_Settings.dgnlib file is loaded in the Librairies but these settings to not transfer over to the new file. Seeing this, I thought I could right click on the current drawing and "UPDATE STANDARDS FROM DGNLIB" and that this would bring in all of the standards from all DGNLIB files into the current drawing, but this does not work either. It seems to only import some random amount of the feature definitions and it does not even transfer over the actual Survey Settings.
So, to make things work, I saved my Survey_Settings.dgnlib as a regular Survey_Settings.dgn and I use that file as my seed...
Am I understanding things correctly? I doubt that I am because it would go against all logic to use all this computing time to load libraries opon startup that cannot be accessed... It's like, why bother with them at all?
In your CFG confirm the following:
Then in any file where you need to process survey
You do not need a special seed file for survey EXCEPT: If you wish to utilize survey filters, these apparently only work when embedded to a seed, and you probably don't want to carry them around for everything you do besides survey.
Robert Garrett Senior Consultant
www.envisioncad.com