I am setting up the new Data Acquisition tool in SS1, and am having issues controling the plot scale of points, cells, and line styles. I have exported my SMD to XML and am using that for a style file. Here's how the SMD file was setup:
All cells are drawn at 100 scale, so when placing a cell at 100 scale, you would use a cell scale of 1, 50 scale use 0.5, 20 scale use 0.2, etc.
In the SMD file, I have identified the Apply Creation Scale = 100 (thus scaling the cell back down to true scale 1=1, or a cell scale of 0.01)
Text for the point labels in the SMD are set to TH/TW of 2.5/2.5, again with a creation scale of 100
When processing survey using the SMD, I use a plot scale of 20, thus scaling all cells from a 0.01 to 0.20 for 20 scale, and text imports at a TH/TW of 0.5/0.5.
Now, with Data Acquisition, when I bring in survey, the cells are importing at a scale of 0.00083, and the text imports at TH/TW of 0.0021/0.0021. It appears that the Data Acquisition tool is applying the creation scale (scaling everything down by 0.01), and also scaling everything to inches (1/12). i.e. cells = (1/100)/12=0.00083, and text = (2.5/100)/12=0.002083
With all that said, can I apply a plot scale in Data Acquisition? How do I prevent Data Acq from converting to inches?
Microstation v8.11.7.180 with Geopak Suite v8.11.7.227
As far as training, we have some workshops set up for use at conferences and such. There will be a session at BE Together on May which covers Data Acquisition.
As to your scaling issues: There were a couple of problems in the released version which together account for the struggles you are having. Here is how point locators should work and does work in the Select Series 2 release which is now several weeks away. In Select Series 1, you may have to work at it a bit to get the results you want.
In your examples, you configured the SMD to use a certain size for a certain scale. For example, the point locator might be defined as 5 ft at 100 scale. Data Acquisition reads this and if it finds your annotation scale is 100 then the locator is placed at size = 5. If it finds annotation scale is 50 then it places the point locator size = 2.5.
Text and cells sizes will behave similarly.
Your note about the inches is actually correct in the grand scheme but there was a bug in the implementation. Let me explain: for a scale of 1" = 50' is really equivelent to 1" = 600" (or 1:600) which is how scales are handled within Microstation. But, as noted above, the end results should be identical to your specifications in the SMD. In the Select Series 1 release there was a math error that improperly compensated for this scales issue.
So to sum up your final question: "Can I apply a plot scale?" Yes, all you should need to worry about is go to Settings > Drawing Scale and choose the appropriate scale. In your case, 1"=50' or 1"=100'.
Robert GarrettSenior Product EngineerBentley Systems Inc.
I was unable to get anything resolved with the Drawing Scale. It appears to be reprocessing, but never changes the scale. Tried a new drawing and model setup with the drawing scale and reimported the data set with no luck either. Is there another setting somewhere that i am missing?
Also, I failed to mention that the SMD to XML exporter is not exporting my SMD correctly. For some reason, I am losing the level assignment for everything except the point locator. Also the fonts change from font 36 to font 0... Any suggestions?
Thanks for the report regarding levels. We have just today identified a problem with the SMD save as XML process. If the named levels exist in a level library but not in the active DGN can cause the level to be recorded into the XML file improperly. We are correcting this in next release.
In the meantime, if you import the levels into a DGN file then the save as XML should work.