Key-in: Working Units>Master Unit: Feet> Label:_____

What I am looking for is:

I found the key-in for Accuracy but I'm looking for a key-in to change the LABEL to nothing or blank. Right now I'm doing a lot of measuring of lines (specific linestyles) and when I measure them by selection set I get for example 101.25FT and all I need is 101.......No .25 or FT, I let Microstation do the rounding off for me but I'd like NOT have the label FT or what ever the dgn is set up for.

Thank you

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  • leave the working units set to feet and tenths and set the accuracy to zero. Where you need to make a change is in the dimensions. Go to Element>DimensioonStyles select the units tab and check the "use working units" option, then set the label format to MU and the accuracy to zero. This shouold give you the readout you want when measuring.

    Timothy Hickman

    CADD Manager | CADD Department

    timothy.hickman@colliersengineering.com

    Main: 877 627 3772| 

    1000 Waterview Drive Suite 201 | Hamilton, New Jersey 08691

  • just wanted to follow up on this - did this answer your question ?

    Timothy Hickman

    CADD Manager | CADD Department

    timothy.hickman@colliersengineering.com

    Main: 877 627 3772| 

    1000 Waterview Drive Suite 201 | Hamilton, New Jersey 08691

  • I missed this part too. Why are you editing your pcf?
  • WOW
    Nice responses. Let me start with Lorys-I am measuring lengths on a per sheet basis and once I get the length I’ll create a graphic group along the copied total from the measure tool to verify that those lines that have already been measured and believe me there a lot of them. David Fradley-I need actual numbers to verify. Tim Hickman-I’m NOT touching the pcf and the question was asked about the units.def. Since there is a key-in for setting the accuracy I just thought there would be one for the label as well.
  • I understand you need the actual numbers - but all MSTN is doing is rounding up in the screenshots you showed above. 3182.7 becomes 3183. 3182.4 would become 3182. Why waste all this time getting something to display the way you want it to when you can just do a simple rounding operation yourself? What am I missing?
  • You mentioned PCF which is the only reason I asked about it.

    Now for the UNITS.DEF file, there is no need to touch/change this file.

    And I do apologize , but I still don't follow the explanation you stated above.

    I am measuring lengths on a per sheet basis - lengths of what ?

    once I get the length I’ll create a graphic group - grouping of what ? and why ?

    along the copied total from the measure tool - copy ? of what ?

    to verify that those lines that have already been measured - so this whole process is to track what you have measured ?

    So what ultimately are you looking to do ? IE: Get the total length of individual line segments in a sheet file...

    Timothy Hickman

    CADD Manager | CADD Department

    timothy.hickman@colliersengineering.com

    Main: 877 627 3772| 

    1000 Waterview Drive Suite 201 | Hamilton, New Jersey 08691

  • Unknown said:
    WOW
    Nice responses. Let me start with Lorys-I am measuring lengths on a per sheet basis and once I get the length I’ll create a graphic group along the copied total from the measure tool to verify that those lines that have already been measured and believe me there a lot of them. David Fradley-I need actual numbers to verify. Tim Hickman-I’m NOT touching the pcf and the question was asked about the units.def. Since there is a key-in for setting the accuracy I just thought there would be one for the label as well.

    Why not use the selectby  tool to create a selection set based on what ever it is you need to measure ie level, colour, element type etc  then once selected use the measure length tool to get total length...you can even get this to work with macro and  batch processor or a script keying and paste the result into note pad..

    Personally  I like to use tags and  use it to number each object ( when I create them  is best but you can still do it after  like your measuring  ) then I can create a  tag report to extract the  lengths  to a excel table or text file... this also lets you  extract any attribute you want  level name , length etc but as your putting id numbers it helps to isolate specific objects later...its a bit like using GIS in CAD... very fast and very efficient... only tag what you want measured and use excel to round off later..

    Also for checking purposes you can select an object ie line and use the properties rmb menu to see if your object has a tag and the tag it self  just incase you have 2 objects and not sure which has been tagged... or as I do I have a F key script that use to change the colour of an object  once I've tagged it so I know I've done it..

    Its very easy for us to pontificate without actually seeing your data and how you need to use it...

    Can you put a  picture of what you want  to acheive and a real dgn  for us to play with?

    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.
    click link to PM me 

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  • Unknown said:
    WOW
    Nice responses. Let me start with Lorys-I am measuring lengths on a per sheet basis and once I get the length I’ll create a graphic group along the copied total from the measure tool to verify that those lines that have already been measured and believe me there a lot of them. David Fradley-I need actual numbers to verify. Tim Hickman-I’m NOT touching the pcf and the question was asked about the units.def. Since there is a key-in for setting the accuracy I just thought there would be one for the label as well.

    Why not use the selectby  tool to create a selection set based on what ever it is you need to measure ie level, colour, element type etc  then once selected use the measure length tool to get total length...you can even get this to work with macro and  batch processor or a script keying and paste the result into note pad..

    Personally  I like to use tags and  use it to number each object ( when I create them  is best but you can still do it after  like your measuring  ) then I can create a  tag report to extract the  lengths  to a excel table or text file... this also lets you  extract any attribute you want  level name , length etc but as your putting id numbers it helps to isolate specific objects later...its a bit like using GIS in CAD... very fast and very efficient... only tag what you want measured and use excel to round off later..

    Also for checking purposes you can select an object ie line and use the properties rmb menu to see if your object has a tag and the tag it self  just incase you have 2 objects and not sure which has been tagged... or as I do I have a F key script that use to change the colour of an object  once I've tagged it so I know I've done it..

    Its very easy for us to pontificate without actually seeing your data and how you need to use it...

    Can you put a  picture of what you want  to acheive and a real dgn  for us to play with?

    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.
    click link to PM me 

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