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  • Create a new reference and add item/level (Navigator V8I)

    Hi! I need to know how to create a new reference and be able to add different levels/items. Im not so well-rounded in bentley and i would appreciate some guidence, is this community the best way to find help? It would be great if i could find some…
  • Levels in a Reference all go to "Default" instead of individual levels

    Hello everyone, here is my situation: In what I will call Basemap "A", I used Bentley Map to import features from a GIS database into my DGN. Before importing the features into Basemap A as elements for manipulation, I changed the symbology of the levels…
  • Site Standards - Synchronising with Level Libraries

    Having established CAD Standards with your level libraries it is useful to keep project data synchronised with those libraries. But....you do need to control what is synchronised! There are a group of configuration variables that control level synchronisation…
  • Placing References on Levels

    Have you come across the situation where in you need to go to different drawing and sheet models to turn off levels over and over again? Or have you been repeatedly turning the display of references on and off to customize the view? Wouldn’t it better…
  • Key in to set transparency for (nested) reference levels

    How to set the transparency of specific levels in a master file as well as in a (nested) reference file to a specific value, using a key-in. Actually setting the transparency is quite close to setting the display for (nested) reference levels (see…
  • Key-ins to switch levels on/off in a master file and (nested) references

    How to switch a level in a nested reference on or off using a key-in. In order to be able to switch on/off levels on a nested reference, the following settings/variables need to be checked first, to allow editing and saving the changes to the levels…
  • Re: Building View Workflow Clarification

    Hi Tom, You're welcome. There definitely seems to be something happening with DV synchronization when it comes to reference file levels, but what that is I'm not quite sure. But at least you should be able to "refresh" the Sheet without having to completely…
  • Accessing an attachment's Element's Level in VBA V8i

    Dear All I have been struggling to use MIcrostation to get a referenced element's level properties in VBA: I first use ILocatePrimitive to locate only referenced elements to be located. I would then like the Element.Level…
  • Re: 3d Models, saved views and level - HELP!

    Hi Mike, If you see this message "Global Display is off" (when hovering over the level name in Level Display), most likely the level in question is switched off under the Global Display setting in Level Display (see image below) in the Reference file…
  • [V8i] Reference levels batch processing

    We recently moved from MicroStation J to V8i SELECTseries 3 and we are finding out that after we convert the files to V8 format that the levels for our reference files are all turning off. I'm trying to create a batch process to allow me to set the "standard…
  • Microstation crashes when I select a specific attachment to adjust level display

    I have a specific file that is commonly attached--my topo--whose levels are frequently turned off and on, based on what I need at the time. Well, that worked for a while, but now, strangely, the file appears to be corrupted perhaps. When I have the level…