Is it possible to name lines in Microstation ? I found in the element properties a description field but it says "line string" or whatever and it is grayed out and uneditable. Maybe a setting somewhere? Thanks
Roadhand, post: 396814, member: 61 wrote: Is it possible to name lines in Microstation ? I found in the element properties a description field but it says "line string" or whatever and it is grayed out and uneditable. Maybe a setting somewhere? Thanks
Roadhand,
Not sure exaclty what you are asking. But in sounds like you want TAGS. Tags allows you to label a line string, shape or complex line/ element. The text can then be displayed on or off.
leegreen, post: 396818, member: 2332 wrote: Roadhand,
Not sure exaclty what you are asking. But in sounds like you want TAGS. Tags allows you to label a line string, shape or complex line/ element. The text can then be displayed on or off.
In BC-HCE we are able to name lines for instance Top of Cap, Bearing seat, etc, and when we export the dxf into our controllers the guys can pick the line from the list by name. I would like to be able to name the lines that same way in microstation . Currently I am doing all of my linework there and bringing it into TBC just to name the lines. Trying to save a step.
Is the linestring nog the same as the acad polyline, just a string of lines ...
We put the lines to stake in new layers with names so they come up first in the layerlist
Roadhand, post: 396819, member: 61 wrote: In BC-HCE we are able to name lines for instance Top of Cap, Bearing seat, etc, and when we export the dxf into our controllers the guys can pick the line from the list by name. I would like to be able to name the lines that same way in microstation . Currently I am doing all of my linework there and bringing it into TBC just to name the lines. Trying to save a step.
Roadhand,
Send me a sample DXF file. Just wondering if BC-HCE is simply assigning the line name as a layer or a tag. I'm not sure if DXF supports tags.
Chris: That is second time I've seen you use the word "nog", in place of "not". Is that a common word in Belgium, or just fat fingers on a small keyboard.
Great! Having a laugh here with the fat fingers. 😉
That's typing on the iPad with dutch spelling checking on!
No 'not' in dutch, and 'nog' means still.
Chr.
I believe this link http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/1148 will be helpful. Microstation supports creating custom line styles that may have symbols and/or text in the line.
I figured out the tags, and thought that would do what I was wanting, but they still came in as unnamed dxf lines. They did have the name I had given them as text on the same layer as the lines though. Looked like sh!t on the tsc3:scream:
I guess that when you want names for your lines one of the ways to go is by an landxml file. Make some lines on the TSC3 via key in, give them a name, epxort your job to a landxml file. Open in an editor and have a look at the formatting ... export or build & format your own landxml (C3d and or Excel?)
If I had time I started investigating ...
Still wondering what the advantage is of named lines when you can walk around in the map screen and see what line is closest to stake next.
But we may have very different jobs.
Interested to know if you find a way to get what you want?
christ lambrecht, post: 396995, member: 284 wrote: I guess that when you want names for your lines one of the ways to go is by an landxml file. Make some lines on the TSC3 via key in, give them a name, epxort your job to a landxml file. Open in an editor and have a look at the formatting ... export or build & format your own landxml (C3d and or Excel?)
If I had time I started investigating ...Still wondering what the advantage is of named lines when you can walk around in the map screen and see what line is closest to stake next.
But we may have very different jobs.Interested to know if you find a way to get what you want?
Thanks Christ, Some of the lines are on top of each other at different elevations. It is easier on the field guys to pick them from the list rather than the map. TBC names them quite easily, just editing the properties, I was hoping it would be just as easy in TBC.
Here is an example of what they see in the 2D compared to whats actually there in the 3D
I would assume access has a lot of the same functionality as survey pro and a nice way to do it in my mind is to layer the DXF file and stake off of that you can turn layers off or shown or selectable. Then just leave all layers shown and make what you want to use selectable. I know it's not exactly what you wanted but it's a nice workaround.
mvanhank222, post: 397013, member: 8673 wrote: I would assume access has a lot of the same functionality as survey pro and a nice way to do it in my mind is to layer the DXF file and stake off of that you can turn layers off or shown or selectable. Then just leave all layers shown and make what you want to use selectable. I know it's not exactly what you wanted but it's a nice workaround.
I thought of that too, and I do layer them, but the dxf comes out with the empty layers in it, all1300 of them :confounded:
Purge the dxf in acad before sending to the tsc3 to get rid of the empty layers.
We also explode all polylines, we never stake alignments always lines and arcs. We're not used to the stationing and offset over here.
I did not figure out how you stake the start of an alignment nor the critical points between two stations.
Chr
Survey pro you can tell it to stop at the pc/pt and angle points while staking the alignment.
