Greetings Turkay, This type of data manipulation is best done programmatically. If you could provide a sample design file and details on what elevations should be moved to which levels, I would gladly craft a sample VBA application which could be used…

I reviewed the provided text2xfm v1.5 application and it appears the ability to process multiple text elements still exists. If a " Fence " is active when the " Process " button is pressed then all of the text or text node elements in the fence contents…

Bjorn, Yes, features can be renamed programmatically using code that updates the .name and .alias properties on the feature instance then calls the .write method. Attached is a VBA example which illustrates one way in which this can be done. rename_features1…

Bruce, I appreciate the additional sample data. I've been out of the office for the past few days travelling on business but earlier today using the new data I ran the attached promote2.mvba process which created 4 new polygon collection feature instances…

Bruce, After a quick review, I believe your use of the DFS rules file is causing the observed difference when running the promote1.mvba process. I will perform some additional verification testing and update you with my findings. Question, I noticed…

Bruce, Please zip up and send me via private message... Your modified MVBA file. A sample design file containing the original MicroStation shape elements. A current copy of your Bentley Geospatial Administrator schema file. ...and I will…

Jan is correct. No VBA wrappers are provided for the Bentley Map C API functions. The most commonly used Bentley Map functionality, including the XFM data modeling engine is provided in the XFT (XFM Feature Toolkit) COM object. Use of other Bentley Map…

Stefan, In the "xfmOracleExtensions" sample available in the online " Bentley Map - Development and Product Customization Guide ", take a look at the editInstance() method for an example of using XftCmdMgr.ActivateMethod() to open the "Edit" dialog…

Rói, And Jon is correct in that the MicroStation (and thus Bentley PowerMap) database connection information is not available. Depending on your application requirements, you may be able to use the BUDBC (Bentley Universal Database Connection…

Charlie, You should have a module named StringLibrary as seen in the following:

Success! Although I did not have much luck with PlaceAnnotation2 (It seemed aimed at interactive placement, and I could never quite get the subfeature to rotate), I adapted a function provided by Bentley services. The main deal was to set the rotation…

Tom, I believe a change request that could potentially expose text string values as business properties for inferred features would be worthwhile. This would allow you to simply open a MicroStation design file in Bentley Map and use the Interoperability…

...in VBA you can use the XFT.ILocateOpEvents interface as follows. First declare a new XFT locate operation object and set desired criteria. Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() Dim oLocateOp As New xft.locateOP oLocateOp.IncludeOnlyFeatures = True…

Jiri, For you adhoc connection (e.g. without a schema) code, you will need to add the following highlighted lines to the connectAdhoc method: public void connectAdhoc(string userName, string password, string serviceName) { GDI.GDIExplorerOracleImportsNode…

...not familiar with that particular error, but at this time I would recommend the use of Visual Studio 2005 Edition when developing applications for the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) platform. Also when adding/replacing references to accomodate your…

Unknown said: Can someone please tell me, how VBA can find out which database connection is currently active in PowerMap? MicroStation's DB interface is notoriously obscure. AFAIK it's not possible to query MicroStation for its current DB connection…

Erik, For polygon collections you can handle them just as you always have, working with a root (collection/container) feature and then the subfeature (member) geometries. You continue to use the MicroStation object library to create and manipulate…

...the network API is not formally documented at this time. Please forward questions regarding it's use directly to me. I would recommend that you search the MicroStation SDK or VBA documentation for the term "transient" to get a better idea of how they…

Yes, in addition to MDL (e.g. native C/C++) libraries, Bentley Map provides the XFM Feature Toolkit (XFT) COM object for development using VBA or .NET (e.g. C# or Visual Basic.NET) languages. Depending on your applications functional requirements, you…

Jens, From your description it sounds as if you want to copy the business property values from some source data to instances of your new polygon collection feature class. Is this correct? If so is the text you refer to the annotation sub-feature text…

...okay very good, thank you for that update. I would also recommend that before calling the .GetSubFeature(0) method, your code performs a check to ensure that the .SubFeatureCount property has a value greater than 0.