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Now to be more specific to help you you can do this in a couple of easy ways..
First go to your workspace preferences you will find a setting for broken associations unticked .. retick this and all broken dim associations will now be thick dashed or dotted … if you need to find a lot of these in a lot of files just batch print them to single pdf and you can quickly scan through the pdf find the individual drawing these individual pages then can be printed to help identify the drg file and specific dim later or just go to the drawing in question.. to repair the broken dims use the reassociate dim tool
or you set up your spec checker tool yes its in all microstation from v 2004 onwards and its free and it can be set to report broken dim associations this will narrow down the list so you can then do the first tip on a hopefully smaller group of files…
BTW No disrespect intended but your microstation cad guru doesn't seem to know his stuff very well, this has been a basic user preference setting in ustn at least since v5 for dos circa 1993 and every version to date has it and must have been turned off (as its on by default out of the box) most cad managers and users prefer it off as it produces very ugly results in prints….but in this case its exactly what the user wants as the tool setting was intended..
Thanks very much for the reply. I tried to do as sugested but I was unable to change the colour of the text (I think because the text colour is defined in the text style used in the dimension style).
This did get me thinking of other options though. So through the "Find/Replace text" tool I found all instances of "*" and replaced with "?". I then took note of all dimensions that still showed a numeric value rather than a question mark. I was then able to undo this command and attend to the noted dimensions.
There's at least one tool available for purchase that can do this easily. It's called CADExplorer.
I checked with a MicroStation guru to see whether it could be done in MicroStation.
Here is what I got back:
"The only workflow solution that may make this process easier is to utilize the "Find/Replace Text" tool located in the "Edit" menu. Set the text string to look for as "*", (less the quotation marks). Enable the "Whole Words" Find options. Under the View Options category, enable Animate and Zoom. Click the "Find" button and MicroStation will find the first instance of a non-edited dimension. Use the :Change Attributes" command to change its color. Continue doing this until all of the non-edited dimensions have been found and changed to a different color. The remaining dimensions are all of the deited ones. Edit as necessary. Finally you can select all of the dimensions that you changed to a unique color and put them back to their original color. This can be done in mass by using the Selection tool; expand the selection tool options and select element type dimension, and select the color tab and deselect all of the colors except the unique color. With the dimensions all selected, change the color in the attributes panel and they should all take on the new color setting."
What I am referring to is when an associative dimension has had the automatic dimension value overwritten by text so that it is no longer associative. Thanks
I have a drawing done by others and a number of dimensions have been overwritten with different values. I want to find all the instances of this without going to 'Edit text' and looking at every dimension individually. I was thinking along the lines of a search to find all dimension text values that are not '*' or even all that are '*' so that I could then see which ones weren't highlighted. Is something like this possible. Thanks
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