Is there a best practice for making topo dgn files w/ InRoads V8i SS1? The seed file has annotation scale at 1:20. When viewing all the graphics everything looks good except the cells. The linestyles scale up and the text custom ops scale up. And they go up when you change to 1:50. The cells are "annotation cells" in the cell library but don't seem to get placed as annotation cells.
Do other users use the annotation scale in creating topo dgns? I circled the tiny cells and showed my model properties.
Thanks.
InRoads does not use the MicroStation annotation scale in its calculations. The only way to get a cell to scale is to use the cell Scale Factors in the File->Options Factors tab.
I would support the use of annotation scale in InRoads or alternatively if InRoads would allow you to specify if scaling was applied to a cell in the symbology settings (like Linestyles). I think that would be useful as sometimes the cells are for real world sizes, not a just a symbol on a page.
Mick
quasi workaround I am investigating. My named symbologiwa use a text style.
Display everything 1:1 in survey options. Select all elements and key in ANNOTATIONSCALE ON. Then change your annotation scale. This worked pretty well.
A couple things: Text scales but custom ops offsets are not honored. Since InRoads displays single lines of text, not a multiline node, you have to change them to multline nodes.
If the cell is not an annotation cell (like my tree cell), they do not resize.
I am still playing with this and it looks promising.