I would really like to see an option in the Fit View tools to Fit a view to a specific reference. This could be accomplished through a key-in option (something like FIT VIEW REFERENCE {logical]) or a tool setting like "Use References Dialog List".
This could be REALLY helpful for those cases where a reference is attached, and it shows up miles and miles away form the project location. Instead of having to zoom very far out to try to select the correct clump of pixels to drag back to the original file, we could just FIT REFERENCE BCD right to it.
It could also be useful when in a drawing composed of a number of references, to locate just the area of interest for one of those files. On a large site project, perhaps I just want to see the improvements to Campground One. I could FIT REFERENCE Camp1 and see exactly what I want.
I know some of this can be managed with Saved views - but only if the view is saved ahead of time. In the case of the file attached to a far-off location, Saved Views will not help us. And for zooming into a smaller view of the project, this FIT REFERENCE could be used to help set up the saved views for later. I think it would be a nice enhancement.
Thank You.MaryB
Oto over 3 years ago
Great idea. I have always thought that there should be some intelligence when attaching references that Microstation should warn that reference is too far from active file and provide some option to change attachment method.
f.mandoki over 3 years ago
Good idea. It's often the case that references are located several hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away from the project location. I never understood why there's no option to just drop them where you want like you can do with raster files.
Reginald Wallace over 3 years ago
Enhancement 922147 has been filed. Thanks for the details!
Regards,
Regie
Grant Wood over 2 years ago
This might be an okay workaround until Bentley makes something better...
displayset set selection; fit view extended; displayset clear
It should work with references, and any other selection group you may have. Downside being it wont work if you have an active display set already.
f.mandoki over 2 years ago
I actually learned how to drop references at a desired location: when attaching a file you only have to choose "top" in the standard view section in the reference properties. That enables a free placement.
Rohit Dighe over 2 years ago
Hi,
We already have a key-in for this.
Fit Reference <logical name>
you could get a logical name of a reference from references dialog.
Let me know if this helped you.
f.mandoki over 2 years ago in reply to Rohit Dighe
Hi Rohit, is that included anywhere in the software documentation?
Rohit Dighe over 2 years ago in reply to f.mandoki
Hi, I checked and found that currently there is no documentation for this key-in. we will add documentation for this key-in, I have created a defect for adding a documentation for this key-in
Reginald Wallace over 2 years ago in reply to Rohit Dighe
Defect 988825 has been filed in order for this to be added to the documentation.