If you have used other design related software, some of them have an amazing option called View template. Basically you can setup a view template ie levels on/off, view attributes, Level overrides etc. and apply them to may files/views.
I know we have saved views and that MS doesn't work the same way as ie Revit. But it would be amazing if we can setup a dgn file ie a special DGNLIB file, with several view options and apply them to a series of DGN files either at a model stage or sheet stage.
Or change the way a Saved works to allow this to work.
as an example.
300 sheet files all need to look the same ie with line weights, colours fill etc... ding this manually is a very time consuming process. Simply add a View |template and woooosh :)
Would be nice if the Copy View command could be used across reference files. If that worked you could Copy View from a template DGN.
This can be done with a batch process, following is an example that loads and applies level filters.
#Sets active level
ACTIVE LEVEL Sheet_Label_Const_Wt1
#Sets active text style
TEXTSTYLE ACTIVE MyTextStyle_Mask
#Sets active dimension style
DIMSTYLE ACTIVE MyDimStyle_Mask_ft
#Import level filters
LEVEL LIBRARY ATTACH Sheet_View_Filters.dgnlib
#Sets sheet border levels for plan view sheets (Change sheet view filter for different types of sheets)
SET LEVELS OFF ALL; SELVIEW 1
#SET LEVELS ON Sheet View Filters.Plan - Removal; SELVIEW 1
SET LEVELS ON Sheet View Filters.Plan - Construction; SELVIEW 1
#turn on levels
SET LEVEL ON Sheet_Border_PlotShape_11x17~;SELVIEW 1
#Fit View
FIT ALL
#Save Settings
filedesign
Hi Ian, would a macro or script that you can batch apply to dgn files be a viable option?
Regards,
Marco