How to Prevent Spurious Dots from Appearing?

[imsengr]

Hi everyone,

I wonder if anyone else has been having problems with spurious dots. They appear at the corner of my drawings. For example, if I chamfer two lines, they appear at the corner of the chamfer. It seems to be a single dot, a single pixel. What is annoying is that it shows up as a dot in the drawing and get printed out, so it shows up very clearly on the printed drawing. What is causing it? I think it is just some setting that I need to adjust.

Someone suggested going to Settings | View Attributes and manipulate the View Attributes box that appears. But I do not know which box to check or uncheck to get rid of the spurious dots.

Advice and suggestions, please, all.

Thank you so much and have a great weekend.

GaEngr05

 

[DaveVikingPE]

I experienced this problem. What I did about it was detach everything from each other using the Drop Element tool, then I deleted the dots.

Then my office upgraded regularly from the network and them annoying dots don't show up any more.

 

[broekie]

Did you try unchecking the "Constructions" box in "View Attributes" as suggested in your previous thread?

 

[imsengr]

Thank you, first responders, I knew I could count on you, guys.

First, in response to DaveVikingPE, I do not really need to detach anything to delete those "spurious dots". They were created as part of my drawing so all I need is to highlight them, and hit Delete.

However, these dots are just single pixels so it is kinda hard to spot them on the screen. I just highlight where I suspect they might be and if they show up, just delete them. They show up very clearly on the prints, though, and messes up the drawing some.

To broekie, I have unchecked the Constructions box in View Attributes but the problem still persists. There are several other boxes there and I am not sure which boxes to leave checked and which to leave unchecked. The boxes that are currently checked on my sysetem are Clip Volume, Dimensiosn, Dynamics, Fill, Level Symbology, Line Styles, Patterns and Text.

Please let me know which of your View Attributes boxes are checked.

I think it is simple really simple, like unchecking some boxes or re-setting some of my settings, but when you do not know what it is, it is not so simple, eh? Keep the advice and suggestions coming, please.

Thanks, everyone and have a great weekend.

 

[broekie]

Clip volume, dimensions, dynamics, fill level symbology, line styles, line weights, patterns, tags, and text are what I have checked in the View Attributes box.

 

[imsengr]

Thank you for all your responses, but I think I have figured out what the "spurious dot" is. Eureka?

When I joined those two lines with a CONSTRUCT CHAMFER command, what Microstation basically does is to construct a chamfer for those two lines as it was told. Although I set my Distance 1 and Distance 2 both at 0, what I expected was that Microstation would make a very clean and sharp chamfer. I essentially expect a sharp corner as if the chamfer is not even there. However, Microstation throws in that one spurious dot to remind us all that it is a chamfer, even though both Distance 1 and Distance 2 are zero. Therefore, I now know that that "spurious dot" is in fact the world's smalleest chamfer of zero dimensions. I wish that Microstation would just construct a clean corner without any dots!

I now use the EXTEND ELEMENTS TO INTERSECTION command whenever I want to connect two lines ... No dots!