Report Graphical Elements in Model

If your not going to use  vba ( with the  scan element  criteria ) then I think the select tool will give you what you want  but not a  report it it can select by  element type  and in the information center or bottm left in the bar gives you the selection counts .. you can just select everything with the  power selector and deselect what you dont want  ie leave only text nodes and it tells you how many are in the selection..

While not automated  you could create a series of macros using the the Basic macro recorder with the  select by tool and chose the element type and it would work the same as by  hand  just not keep the result in a text table or  file .. but running these file by file  element type by element type is pretty easy.. you just have to write  down the results one at a time..

Now if this is mission critical and you have a business case then you can just PAY as decent VBA skilled drafter or programmer to write said  macro for you it would then be run in the batch processor tool and report to a text file  the file name and tallies of those desired elements file by  file ...

If you have  projectwise I think it too can do that kind of analysis  too... but I'm not real sure...

Right-click on a blank spot
Select All
Open Element Information

You will be shown how many of what is selected. If that's what you really need, quick way to find out. If you don't know VBA then write down the things you want to know.

I think the VBA help lists all the example code. I could look to see if there's anything out there.

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Right-click on a blank spot
Select All
Open Element Information

You will be shown how many of what is selected. If that's what you really need, quick way to find out. 

Wow even after 20 years I still find out new stuff.. mstn is awesome..

Of course! .. it summarises but I always click on this without thinking to see the individual stuff never been interested in the summary before...

BTW

I looked up the information tool in help to try to build a  keyin script he could use like the

Select all; MDL LOAD ELEMENTINFO ...

etc then I noticed in the help you can 

create an output file of the info ... fence the entire file and key in   ELEMENT LIST   hit return and it will prompt you where to name and  save

filename.ULF

Now I cant  find what  will open this Universal List format  in msnt ... but  there must  be  something on google that will open it and let you edit it  so you only  keep the summary...

file name by  file name.... I tried copy to clipboard of the info tool summary  .. while it lets you select ie  highlights it wont  copy to clipboard...

Will look into this more on google ... 

If anyone at Bentley  knows how to view the ULF files let us know as the help file only tells you how to make and save not open , read or edit...

I attached a little VBA that does a quick and dirty count and creates a text file. Drop it in a configured VBA path, or somewhere you'll remember. Launch it with:

VBA LOAD COUNTTYPES

VBA RUN COUNTTYPES

If it is not in a configured path, you'll need to include the path with the filename.

I have the text file going to C:\_JUNK\. Let me know if you want that path changed. It needs to exist on your C-Drive before running the VBA.

You need to select first what you want to count, so can either do a select all if you want everything or just grab the stuff you do want. Run the vba. Nothing will happen, it just creates the file.

Like I said, it isn't fancy. It reports the element types. Search here or with google for "MicroStation element types" and you should find a list of what each number represents (3 = line, 7 = text node, etc).

CountTypes.mvba

I attached a little VBA that does a quick and dirty count and creates a text file. Drop it in a configured VBA path, or somewhere you'll remember. Launch it with:

VBA LOAD COUNTTYPES

VBA RUN COUNTTYPES

If it is not in a configured path, you'll need to include the path with the filename.

I have the text file going to C:\_JUNK\. Let me know if you want that path changed. It needs to exist on your C-Drive before running the VBA.

You need to select first what you want to count, so can either do a select all if you want everything or just grab the stuff you do want. Run the vba. Nothing will happen, it just creates the file.

Like I said, it isn't fancy. It reports the element types. Search here or with google for "MicroStation element types" and you should find a list of what each number represents (3 = line, 7 = text node, etc).

CountTypes.mvba

Excellent thank you.

seems to work well. I'll see if i can get this to output the data i need. I'm still working with what it is we want from this data so i'll report back.

one thing i have noticed while carrying out this exercise, which initially was to be able to drop all solids to surfaces for a VR exercise and then track the numbers of solids and numbers of surfaces, is how many items seem to have different properties. some solids are solids. drop them to surface and they dont all become surfaces. some become surfaces, others are shapes, others complex shapes, smart surfaces, B Spline surface...

Unknown said:

I attached a little VBA that does a quick and dirty count and creates a text file. Drop it in a configured VBA path, or somewhere you'll remember. Launch it with:

VBA LOAD COUNTTYPES

VBA RUN COUNTTYPES

If it is not in a configured path, you'll need to include the path with the filename.

I have the text file going to C:\_JUNK\. Let me know if you want that path changed. It needs to exist on your C-Drive before running the VBA.

You need to select first what you want to count, so can either do a select all if you want everything or just grab the stuff you do want. Run the vba. Nothing will happen, it just creates the file.

Like I said, it isn't fancy. It reports the element types. Search here or with google for "MicroStation element types" and you should find a list of what each number represents (3 = line, 7 = text node, etc).

(Please visit the site to view this file)

thanks again Dean your  great at this stuff!