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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Michael Leeson's Activities</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/members/903eccae_2d00_7502_2d00_4dc9_2d00_ac2f_2d00_4ed34eff7f53</link><description>Michael Leeson's recent activity</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>MicroStation &amp;lt;-&amp;gt;  AutoCAD forum?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/231943/microstation---autocad-forum</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:14:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0bcc0b89-857e-4530-842f-42ebc8361511</guid><dc:creator>MaryB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;This probably belongs in the &amp;quot;Everything Else&amp;quot; forum, but I know most people don&amp;#39;t look at that. It also should probably be an &amp;quot;Idea&amp;quot; but I&amp;#39;d like to see if anyone else is interested before bothering with that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would love a discussion forum here where people who are more familiar with AutoCAD could get more targeted responses by the &amp;quot;bilingual&amp;quot; folks who can &amp;quot;speak&amp;quot; AutoCAD to better help them understand their issues AND those of us who are primarily MicroStation users might be able to get some advice on which AutoCAD functions will do what we can easily do in MicroStation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have to work in both softwares, and it is incredibly frustrating to figure out how to do certain things in AutoCAD. I have posted before on the AutoDesk forums, but nobody there &amp;quot;speaks&amp;quot; MicroStation. It is very hard to explain what I am asking. I always love the answer &amp;quot;What are you talking about? Why would you want to do that?&amp;quot; (Because I do it every day).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would love to find some place where I could explain in MicroStation terms what I want and have someone answer in AutoCAD. Or even if I can speak AutoCAD, I&amp;#39;m honestly more comfortable with you folks over here :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or would it be against the MicroStation forum policies to ask the occasional &amp;quot;In MicroStation I can...How do I in AutoCAD?&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Bill of Materials (Quantities)</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/232432/bill-of-materials-quantities</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:13:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:8fbcec6e-061b-45f6-8afd-600a27ec40d5</guid><dc:creator>Michael Leeson</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi all,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m getting back into MicroStation after 15 years and I&amp;#39;m looking for a little guidance on how to best set up the automatic generation of bills of materials.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I did with AutoCAD was, I set up a block (cell) and I created attributes (tags) within the block, so for example: I created a block with a 1:1 physical representation of an L8 circuit breaker and inside the block there were 5 attributes:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;Item&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;Description&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;Manufacturer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;Part#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;Certification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;I would then create a visibility toggle which could change the attributes depending on if the user selected this block to be a 1, 2 or 3A breaker (whatever was available in the L8 series). This made block creation a little more complicated but lessened how many blocks were required and if the series would change I wouldn&amp;#39;t need to revise 20 blocks, I could just update what I needed and it would change all instances,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;So getting back to the design, I would have an electrical panel with all the parts I needed inserted as block and once finished I would insert that panel into a title block and I would use&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;AutoCAD&amp;#39;s data extraction to extract the attributed data into a CSV/table giving me a complete list of all the parts used in the electrical panel (I did eventually automate this process but I don&amp;#39;t want to get too complicated for this comparison).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;So with MicroStation I&amp;#39;m reading about Tags and I&amp;#39;m also reading about &amp;quot;Items&amp;quot;, I&amp;#39;m not sure if I can get either system to work the same way as described above (I.E. insert a cell and all information is held within the block, and potentially changeable by drop down list or similar toggle).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;Can anybody think of ways I might be able to achieve this?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ask A Question I</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/460ac7df-7ccc-4c42-a204-9e05eef3be09</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:36:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:730e9dce-58e1-44ca-bc25-21e6fde645ae</guid><dc:creator /><description>Ask a question in a forum.</description></item></channel></rss>