Hello,
I understand now the concept of Items, Item types, ... and the reporting of them - thanks to Bentley interaction in this forum!
I think it is indeed an improvement compared with tags in Microstation V8.
Another question now about placing cells and using Items:
I would like to create a group of Item properties and element properties in a specific layout in order to label shapes in my model. I can make that layout, place them in my model and link all text pieces as fields to specific Item properties or element properties of the shape. But for a second shape I have to do this again.
I would like to have a cell with different text pieces in a specific layout and when I place the cell I can link the cell to a shape so that all text pieces (Item properties or element properties) are linked to the chosen shape.
Much like Datagroup Annotation Cells are working in Aecosim.
Is that possible now in plain microstation? Can anyone give me a hint?
Thanks in advance,
Luc Dierick
Paul,
I looked at labels for this before but I did not find out what the possibilities were. Now I managed to get them to work and it is indeed just doing what I was looking for.
Just a little question: how can I control which cells are visible in the dropdown when placing a label? Now it seems I see all cells in MS_CELLLIST whereas the documentation states that the labels are to be defined in the dgnlib.
I tried to add a few cells in the dgnlib by importing models from my cell libraries and I defined MS_DGNLIBLIST but this did not help: I just saw all cells of MS_CELLLIST (a few hundreds of course ....) but I did not see the cells i tried to define in my dgnlib.
In the documentation I read:
Labels can be defined in a .dgnlib file that is located at a path defined in the MS_DGNLIBLIST configuration variable.
Is this working as designed or is it a glitch in the software or in the documentation? Or am I missing something?
Thanks for all help!
Unknown said:Cells are stored in Cell Libraries, not Design Libraries (DGNLIB)
The use of a cell library (*.cel) or a DGN library (*.dgnlib) is organisational, not technical. They are both DGN files having a well-known extension. It makes sense for a CAD administrator to put cells in a cell library and other definitions (e.g. levels) in a DGNLib.
An evil CAD administrator could put levels in a cell library and cells in a DGNLib, but his career in CAD administration would be curtailed.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
A little bump for this request.
Would be soooo helpful to have a variable for label libraries
Enhancement 708306 has been filed for a configuration variable for Label Cell Library.
However you may also want to try the place-label-tool-filter-cells-by-element-properties-technology-preview see https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/new-in-microstation-connect-edition-update-8---place-label-tool-filter-cells-by-element-properties-technology-preview
This will filter cells based on the selected element type being labelled.
Regards
Carl Myhill
Technical Support Engineer
Bentley Systems