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Recover Deleted Elements
You Thought to be Gone Forever
You have just executed a fence deletion and watched
in horror as thousands of the wrong elements disappeared.
You didn’t notice your active fence setting was
set to “Void” instead of “Inside”.
You try “Undo”, but there is still a large
number of missing elements because the amount of information
deleted was too large for the Undo buffer to handle.
Use Axiom’s Fence Undelete
to recover every one of the deleted elements.
- Start Fence Undelete from the
Axiom menu. The Fence Undelete tool palette comes
up.
- Click on the tombstone icon to
view all the deleted elements that did not make
it back after using Undo.
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| The icon in red allows
users to view a file’s deleted elements
in a temporary design file. |
- A temporary file is created that
holds all the deleted elements. To recover the elements,
click on Fence Undelete’s Fence icon (below
in red). Place the fence around the deleted elements.
You can also select elements individually.
- Then, click on the Restore Fence
Contents icon (below in red) and accept by clicking
your mouse inside the view. You’ll notice that
the elements disappear from the temporary file.
They are being restored to the design file from
which they were deleted.
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| The icon in red allows
users to restore deleted elements to the design
file from which they were deleted. |
- To return to the original design
file, click on the Return to Original File icon
(again, below in red). You’ll now see that
your elements are back in place where they belong.
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| The icon in red allows
users to return to the design file that now
has the recovered elements in it. |
Unlike MicroStation’s
Undo command, Fence Undelete can bring back deleted
elements even after you have closed MicroStation!
This only requires that the file not be com-pressed
after the elements have been deleted.
Click here
to find out more about Fence Undelete.
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