| Author | Message | ||
| Tom May
New member Username: Tmay Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2004 |
Please bear with me this is my first post to the group and I am just beginning to add data in BG Map. My first question is ... I am creating defined views, can I see the boundries of all other defined views I have created so I do not overlap them? Thanks. | ||
| Mark Glicksman
Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 185 Registered: 05-2002 |
Welcome Tom. No, there is no tool built into BG-Map to see all the defined views. The best way to do this is to generate each defined view, and then change the layer of the outline so that it can be permanently saved with the basemap or written to an XREF (reference block). For example, you could create a new layer called VIEW_OUTLINES, on which you will store all the defined view outlines. Then, generate a view, change it's outline to the VIEW_OUTLINES layer, and save the basemap. Then, go on to the next view. You could write a script to help automate this process. For example, download this sample script and unzip it to any convenient folder. http://www.bg-map.com/userdata/outlines.zip If you wish, you can edit it using Windows Notepad. To use the script, generate the defined view. Then, enter the command SCR and press <enter>. Select the script file that you saved. The outline will be changed to the VIEW_OUTLINES layer (make sure you create the layer first) and the basemap will be saved. If you wish to use a different layer name, just change the script accordingly. If you don't wish to automatically save the basemap, delete only the line "qsave" from the script. If you don't wish to make the line thicker, delete the line "pedit l w 2" and the following blank line from the script. |
