Atools not working properly in v8i

Hi

I've noticed that the  v8i version of atools  in v8i 33 is not  putting text at the  centre of shapes even when the  setting auto place text centre is used, I have tried with all variations of the text  justification and regular shapes like  squares, rectangles, triangles and  irregular  closed polygons and  it no longer  places the text at the centre like it used to in previous editions...  real pity because this is a very useful and easy tool.. all other freeware tools to achieve the same thing require too much configuration and some contravene IT policy  whereas the mdl doesnt and can even run on usb memory stick....

if anyone else is getting it to work as intended please post it  here include the  supplementary files toos just incase...perhaps my  files are corrupted somehow...

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  • Exactly which version of MicroStation V8i are you using? I see that the last time the Wiki was revised is in 2010. This would make the version of V8i it was tested with one of the earlier ones. Maybe if you could provide an example design file or maybe just a few screen captures to show what is occurring then we could check whether there might be a problem with this tool.

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

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  • Exactly which version of MicroStation V8i are you using? I see that the last time the Wiki was revised is in 2010. This would make the version of V8i it was tested with one of the earlier ones. Maybe if you could provide an example design file or maybe just a few screen captures to show what is occurring then we could check whether there might be a problem with this tool.

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

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  • Unknown said:
    Exactly which version of MicroStation V8i are you using? I see that the last time the Wiki was revised is in 2010. This would make the version of V8i it was tested with one of the earlier ones. Maybe if you could provide an example design file or maybe just a few screen captures to show what is occurring then we could check whether there might be a problem with this tool.

    Hi Andrew,

    OK using  v8i ss3 811 09 459

    the atool.ma is the v8i one listed in the utilities library content, I have removed all previous versions prior to this mdl and associated dll and rsc files...

    here is proof of results the text  no matter what  justification does not  get placed in the centre  automatically during placement  it is off centre by a lot...

    It used to do  it perfectly  ie always ended up in centre of shape automatically  and worked  even better if the active text  justification was centre center.. now it seem to be closest ( still very wrong) if you use  top left justification .... text size and shape size  makes a difference on how far it  lands from the true centre...

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
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  • I'm seeing the same problem in SS3 .714.

    I didn't bother to post because I haven't seen anyone from Bentley post in this forum for a long time. I was wondering if these utilities are being supported anymore. I use Civtools every day, but there hasn't been an update in over 5 years, despite a number of issues posted by users.
  • I am using PowerDraft 08.11.09.829 (V8i SS4) and it says "Application is not authorized to run on this product"...

  • Hi Abu,

    this is 2 years old discussion about different topic! (atools not working properly, not attool cannot be loaded).

    Please create a new post, I recommend to use MicroStation forum.

    With regards,

      Jan