Hello,
I'm setting up a geospatial schema (attached), for the first time, and I require a little help with using Auto-Calculate for the X and Y position of a point feature.
http://communities.bentley.com/products/geospatial/desktop/w/geospatial_desktop__wiki/3346.aspx
So I select my schema, open the drawing, and begin adding features. The problem is when I place a feature, the Easting (X) and Northing (Y) boxes aren't updated. I get following entry in each field, when reviewing the feature;
What I would like is for the Easting & Northing fields to be auto-populated. If I move the feature later on, I would like these fields to automatically update.
Thanks for any help,
Nick.
Nick,
Attached is a working sample schema that may help as well. You can study the X, Y and Z properties of the MyMonument feature class and see that "placing" and "editing" initial values keys have been defined using...
...which result in the following during placement and editing:
Regards,
Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]
Excellent, thank you both!!
After I've placed the feature, and I move the position of the feature manually, is there a way to have the coordinates update automatically?
Thanks,
Without a bit of custom programming, there is no automatic way to update the business properties which represent the coordinates. You can use the FENCE FEATURE RESET ALL keyin or icon command to update the values for all feature instances within a fence.
If you are familiar with MDL development I can provide the source code for small C program which uses the Bentley Map API that would perform the updates automatically.
Jeff,
I used the following key-in to update the feature properties; FENCE FEATURE RESET ALL. This works to some degree, in that it updates the coordinate annotation, however the properties stay the same.
After placing the feature (X=9.8, Y=1.7), I then moved it manually (X=3589.6, Y=4499.2), and used the above Key-in to update the coordinates. The attached screen capture shows the coordinates of the where the feature was originally placed in the 'Analyze Result' dialog, and the annottation shows the updated coordinates of the new position of the feature.
How do I get the feature properties to update?
The standard methods will not work with the move tool. As mentioned before you may require custom methods to achieve it dynamically.
For this specific schema the only way to update the property values seems to be using the edit command. If you go to the command manager and use the edit command on the point feature it will update both the properties and the annotations.