How to calculate objects?

Hi,


I've got simple question - to ilustrate it i've prepared an example:

In .dgn file I have a lot of green, red and blue lines. Is it possible to create raport with total lenth (in this case separate outcome for every color or level)?

is it any tool to calculate elements in file?


MS SS3; but version of MS is not important - I can update it.

BR

Jan

  • Unknown said:

    Lorys

    I dont think one needs to create a graphic group,

    Agreed, I only suggested this way so you don't have to select all over again (I work this way many times). Working with more usefull tools (levels, color, selection and also graphic groups) just help us be faster and rigorus.

    Regards

    Agreed but  most  of my jobs / dgns are not static and  keep changing  so making groups is counter  productive for us in our projects as you have to keep  updating the  groups  if  project  finished and  was static yes  groups or even Item sets are very good... 

    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) 

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  • Unknown said:

    I dont think one needs to create a graphic group,

    Agreed, I only suggested this way so you don't have to select all over again (I work this way many times). Working with more usefull tools (levels, color, selection and also graphic groups) just help us be faster and rigorus.

    Regards

    José

  • Unknown said:

    Hi Jan,

    In SS3 you can use power selector to select all the green ones and create a graphic group with a name like "Green"
    Do the same for all the other colours. So with a simple graphic group select you'll get all the elements associate to the group.
    With the selection measure with 9 - 4 keys you'll get full length, select it and use CRTL+C.
    Go to excel and create a collumn with colour, and in the second collumn paste the value of the length.
    Repeat the same for other colour.

    For your example you should update for CE, in the new version you have real reports. You can use filter to grab elements for a specific property like colour. Then you can export into Excel to create a summary report as you desire.

    Regards

    I dont think one needs to create a graphic group, just to get the lengths of specific coloured elements or levels, just use the power selector by level name and or  colour  and type ie lines or shapes,etc and deselect what you dont want harvested ie circles yellow etc and the measure tool will give the total length of the selection criteria  which can be  copied from the  message centre or the  measure tool itself.. then paste into excel for reporting the same can be done for areas of  shapes polygons etc

    I use this all the time to measure  pavement types areas for costing of road works and checking of areas for subdivisions add up to total  so no overlaps double counts etc...

    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 

  • Unknown said:
    In .dgn file I have a lot of green, red and blue lines. Is it possible to create raport with total lenth?

    FlexiTable can create reports about DGN models in MicroStation V8i.  You can harvest element metrics including length, area and volume.  You can filter data acquisition by levels.  FlexiTable can save its worksheets in several formats, including Excel.

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • Hi Jan,

    In SS3 you can use power selector to select all the green ones and create a graphic group with a name like "Green"
    Do the same for all the other colours. So with a simple graphic group select you'll get all the elements associate to the group.
    With the selection measure with 9 - 4 keys you'll get full length, select it and use CRTL+C.
    Go to excel and create a collumn with colour, and in the second collumn paste the value of the length.
    Repeat the same for other colour.

    For your example you should update for CE, in the new version you have real reports. You can use filter to grab elements for a specific property like colour. Then you can export into Excel to create a summary report as you desire.

    Regards

    José