How to only load project specific colorbooks

Background

For easier colorbook management or if the computer is slowed down by loading a huge amount of colorbooks stored in the system folder.

Steps to Accomplish

You can configure your ColorBooks to the Project Configuration file in the following manner:

1. Create two files;

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\Projects\ProjectA\ColorBook\ProjectA.dgn

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\Projects\ProjectB\ColorBook\Project B.dgn

2. Open each file and add the required colors to the color book

3. Then in each PCF add the variable

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\Projects\ProjectA.pcf

MS_COLORBOOK_LIBRARIES = $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA)ColorBook/ProjectA.dgn
%lock MS_COLORBOOK_LIBRARIES

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\Projects\ProjectB.pcf

MS_COLORBOOK_LIBRARIES = $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA)ColorBook/ProjectB.dgn
%lock MS_COLORBOOK_LIBRARIES

4. Don’t forget to remove any dgnlib(s) containing the colorbooks already otherwise these may still be read.

This eliminate the need to have all the ColorBooks in the sytems folder.

Thanks to Carl Myhill for this neat solution.

Original Author:

Anders OMahony