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Design Script - Compare Statements To Find Grouped Holes

Scott D. — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:02:40 GMT

We have cells delivered from our DOT that I have been trying to get to print a specific way by using design scripts only. I have been able to get everything the way I want to look except for the cells that contain grouped holes. I've tested using the Type comparison (Type .in. 6,14) and that will pick up the Grouped Hole but that also picks up the other cells that I don't want to change. I've tried to narrow it down by using cellname or nested_cellname but not having any luck with those because when I try to add any second qualifier to it no longer works. I've tried Properties, Header_type, Level+Color.

Compare statements from here: https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/MicroStation%20PowerDraft%20Help-v16/en/GUID-0EB83842-F1EC-8F99-C3F5-B38594B53F53.html

Assignments from here: https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/MicroStation%20PowerDraft%20Help-v16/en/GUID-F84A1B3C-EB9F-8290-35F6-CC0762896755.html

Type list here: https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8855/element-numbers-and-types

If I set it up with:

if (color==0 .and. level_name=="SIGN: Messages") then
	color=16
endif

if (color==0 .and. level_name=="STRIPE: Pavement Message") then
	color=16
endif

if (fill_color==255 .and. level_name=="STRIPE: Pavement Message") then
	color=16
endif

then it will display everything the way I want it to, except for this one grouped hole in one cell. I was hoping I could add something that calls out the Grouped Hole below these lines so that the order would get everything and then adjust the one thing causing me problems.

In ORD: (Colors are 0 and 255)

Printed:

I just need this one Grouped Hole to print as color 240.

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Removing ORD Associated Text Formatting, Leave Data

Scott D. — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:31:51 GMT

We have been running into an issue for awhile where we will get profiles or alignments prepared for plans by moving or modifying text that doesn't always fit what we need when ORD displays it, and when the horizontal or vertical alignment DGNs get updated by designers it resets everything our cad team has done to get that information ready for plans. Text information, placements, attributes and all that.

Our current solution is to copy the text and paste without formatting (ctrl+shift+v) to remove any association that OpenRoads has applied to get the information displayed. For us having static text is much better than the associated text we are given.

So my question is, are there any tools in ORD that will disassociate the text but leave the data that ORD generates? Or even a way to pick and choose when to associate? It seems ORD needs to refresh the data, check, and recheck this data constantly as well, which is probably part of why everything resets. Dropping the text doesn't fix it either.

Current version we are using is ORD CE 2021 Release 2 (10.16.02.16)