Guide to Using DWG and Other Formats
Guide to Using DWG and Other Formats
Guide to Using DWG and Other Formats

Sending Views to Other Applications

In Windows, you can use MicroStation to send views to other applications. You can use OLE2 or DDE technologies to exchange data.

OLE2 enables document objects from MicroStation to be served to other applications, which are called containers, such as Microsoft Word or Excel. A MicroStation view object is a picture of a MicroStation view that can be modified. The OLE2 document technology provides seamless integration of MicroStation view objects into container documents by embedding .

View objects are sent viaEmbedding. An embedded object is a view object that lives in its container application. Because changes to the source object do not affect the embedded object, you can only edit an embedded object in its container.
General Procedure — To Serve a View Object
  1. Load the OLE2 Server.
    See     To load the OLE2 Server.

  2. Capture the view object.
    See     To capture a view object.

  3. Embed the view object in a container file.
    See     To embed a view object in a container using OLE2.

  4. If necessary, edit the view object.
    See     To edit an embedded view object from the container.

To load the OLE2 Server
  1. In MicroStation's Key-in window, type MDL LOAD OLESERVE

To capture a view object
  1. In MicroStation's Key-in window, type OLESERVE VIEWCOPY [view_number]

To capture a MicroStation view object using DDE
  1. In MicroStation's Key-in window, type CLIPBOARD VIEWCOPY

  2. Select the view to copy.