G'day Bentley Guys,
Any timetable as to when the Copy and Increment Text tool is going to be fixed for DWG files in the latest versions of Microstation? It is really annoying having to crank up the XM edition to use this feature...
Regards,
Lincoln
The underlying problem with the copy/increment tool is that it only works on text elements; MText from DWG files inherently converts to text nodes nowadays, hence the problem. DText should generally convert to text elements. If you want us to verify this, please provide a file that works in 8.9.4 and not 8.11. At the end of the day, the DWG import is not at fault here (even if it changed), it's just an ancient tool.
As far as a timetable, the tool is unchanged in V8i SS2, and we are currently evaluating when to re-write it.
Lincoln,
I'm just going off what's been said; is the only problem that copy/increment text doesn't work on textnode's? Because if so then there could be alternatives:
If your text is single line text (that is now a textnode) why don't you drop the element first?
Otherwise it could be something a VBA or other custom app could do. Can you run dll's?
steve
Because as soon as the file is saved, it converts all of the text back into MTEXT.
The fact that it does not work on text nodes is annoying in a DGN file too.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
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Steve,
You have to drop the text first in MS XM for the tool to work on DWG files; then it works fine. It just plain doesn't work at all in 8.11. I cannot use VBA.
I have written a Basic macro that will increment all selected numbers a nominated amount, but this only works in XM.
Sounds like a bit of challenge so I'll try write a copy/increment for textnodes when I find some time.
Just to simplify the program, would it be ok to assume if it is multi-line text that the user wants the last number on the lowest line to be incremented?
Well here's version 1. Once loaded Key-In is TNCI.
Let me know if you find any bugs and please comment if you use it.
Tested ok on V8i on both text and text nodes.
Edit: Code updated to V2 to fix continuous increment problem.
Pardon my ignorance but apart from copying your DLL file to C:\Program Files\Bentley\Program\MicroStation\mdlsys\required what else do I need to do?