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Ohio DOT's Sheet border has an area to place a logo. this helps everyone know which company created that sheet. it looks something like this

the above screenshot shows an OhioDOT logo. but if your company created the sheet then your logo would be there instead.

We have custom applications that help in the placement of these logos. (OHDOT Sheets App, and the OHDOT Sheet Manager App)

But in order for these apps to see and use your logo the following steps need to be done.

1. Create your logo as a cell and store it in a cell library. 

    A cell library is simply a .dgn file with its file extension changed to .cel. Each model within the .cel file can be a cell as long as the model properties set the can be placed as cell property to true

it is recommended that you start from one of the seed files delivered within the OHDOTCEv02 workspace (OHDOTCEv02\Standards\Seed\)

Next you need to make sure the logo cell will fit inside the Design agency box imaged above. The box size is 1.5' long x 2' high. you need to make sure your logo fits inside that sized box.

Next you need to make sure the placement point of the logo cell is correct. the custom apps mentioned above will place the cell in the center of the design agency box. The cells placement location will be the models XY=0,0 location.

Lastly you want to make sure all the elements that make up this logo cell are on the SH_Data Level.

2. Once you have your logo cell created the next step is to make sure your cel library that the logo cell is contained within is included in the configuration of your Bentley CONNECT product (MSCE, ORD....)

this can be done a couple different ways. first will this cell library be needed/used outside of the OHDOTCEv02 workspace or is its use exclusive to projects using the OHDOTCEv02 workspace.

if it is something that will be used across multiple workspaces then the Organization configuration level would be a good place to configure in this cel library. if its specific to just the OHDOTCEv02 workspace then the local\config\ folder within the OHDOTCEv02 workspace folder would be a good place to configure this cel library in. We have another wiki page HERE going over how to make local customizations to the OHDOTCEv02 workspace that will explain the local folder more.

what ever configuration level you decide to use the following two variables need to be set so that the cel library is included when loading a dgn.

    MS_CELL

    MS_CELLLIST

3. Now step 1 created a logo cell and step 2 included that logo cell into configuration when loading a dgn file. This step will now set additional variables so the custom apps can know to include your logo cells as available options when using the custom apps.

The custom apps are reading a variable named DESIGN_AGENCY_CELLNAMES to populate a list of available logo cells. this variable can be set multiple times if you more than one logo cell, just use the prepend or append operation when setting the variable.

4. This last step is for if your working inside OhioDOT's ProjectWise Datasource. if this is the case then OhioDOT is managing the workspace inside that datasource. if you want your logo cell included in in this workspace then you need to email the .cel file to John.Drsek@dot.ohio.gov and he will add it to the workspace.

The following video has also been made to help clarify these steps.