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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/137958/import-coordinates-and-text-using-the-xyz-tool</link><description>Hi 
 Using Microstation connect U5. 
 If i create a .txt file with many ( a few thousen ) x,y,z coordinates, and every coordinate should have a different text ( a combination of numbers and letters ( Something like this; 1:Coordinate; x100 y200 z150 text</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/418080?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:06:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9162b181-2514-4dd0-947e-cf7d76308550</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>Okay got it, I will try the excel approach then.&lt;br /&gt;
Thanks !&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/418052?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:13:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:f992bf4d-3b96-4c3b-ba37-fbe038423713</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;helgeh&amp;quot;]I was wondering is it possible to make a thematic map of the all the T values, instead of manually grouping The T values in to different ranges ( 0-20, 20-40 etc) and get this in to a bar chart? I was looking at the thematic display options in microstation and Descartes but I don&amp;#39;t see any options to use text (T value) as the source for the bar chart.&lt;br /&gt; Regards &lt;br /&gt;Helge&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote] no I&amp;#39;m afraid not ,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The T is text &amp;nbsp;so thematic using &amp;nbsp;T values is not available option in mstn view attribute rendering&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I meant you can make a thematic look a like &amp;nbsp;via the &amp;nbsp;level names grouping to make it easy via excel and then reimport several times for you individual grouping .. the only other way &amp;nbsp;is to &amp;nbsp;find all the text by &amp;nbsp;regex or vba , I find the &amp;nbsp;excel filter &amp;nbsp;much easier and &amp;nbsp;can save the answer to separate work books and then save each as csv then make your &amp;nbsp;own MANUALLY DRAW bar legend.. as I said before it would take a few seconds to import and create in MapInfo ( GIS) and make the thematic map, bar chart, title block and north point but 20-30 mins in mstn especially if you never done it &amp;nbsp;before.. I can knock these out pretty quick with excel and mstn now days as I&amp;#39;ve done lots before.. if you to do it often then a third party product &amp;nbsp;like flexitool from LA solutions &amp;nbsp;might be worth considering it also has lots of other &amp;nbsp;functions especially tags for title blocks in both directions &amp;nbsp;cad to table and table to cad...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You could trick microstation &amp;nbsp;and &amp;nbsp;change the &amp;nbsp;shapes to adopt the T value for Z ie &amp;nbsp;make them 3d &amp;nbsp;for example &amp;nbsp;one room has a value of 20 bar &amp;nbsp;and another &amp;nbsp;has 10 bar and another 5 bar, now if you &amp;nbsp;have &amp;nbsp;closed true &amp;nbsp;polygons &amp;nbsp;for those room boundaries then &amp;nbsp;change the Z value for each to match the bar values then &amp;nbsp;you could do thematic rendering &amp;nbsp;via microstation view attributes... with the height &amp;nbsp;or z values &amp;nbsp;but your legend will be in m not bar... but my original &amp;nbsp;answer &amp;nbsp;via excel is still quicker and neater than that... unless you use gis &amp;nbsp;there is no faster automatic way...( Well apart from &amp;nbsp;some custom vba or mdl )...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/418031?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:36:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:09b91bcf-68a5-4a42-980e-0f850ff0130b</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;helgeh&amp;quot;] I don&amp;#39;t see any options to use text (T value) as the source for the bar chart[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From help:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#008000;"&gt;MicroStation includes the following thematic display handlers:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#008000;"&gt;&lt;a name="GUID-24B66132-B23D-45DE-78F0-5FD81BC6E816__UL_04565F4CA5DA43A497CEEB3026BAD7F2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name="GUID-24B66132-B23D-45DE-78F0-5FD81BC6E816__LI_9202C9643EDE4A6CBF995A19092A85AF"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Height &amp;mdash; Color is derived from the height (elevation) of the geometry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;May I suggest that you start a new thread for this question?&amp;nbsp; We&amp;#39;re straying from the XYZ import topic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/418013?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:57:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:35f0902a-da83-4f17-a7d0-e19473a8d092</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>I was wondering is it possible to make a thematic map of the all the T values, instead of manually grouping The T values in to different ranges ( 0-20, 20-40 etc) and get this in to a bar chart? I was looking at the thematic display options in microstation and Descartes but I don&amp;#39;t see any options to use text (T value) as the source for the bar chart.&lt;br /&gt;
Regards &lt;br /&gt;
Helge&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417754?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:38:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:dfb3225a-f8c0-4588-9bb2-89ecfdeb5eb4</guid><dc:creator>f.mandoki</dc:creator><description>So sorry, I didn&amp;#39;t recognize the big blue icon as being the link to the wiki and the video - i was looking for a standard blue underlined one... :D&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417746?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 10:08:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:4de43cbb-2b81-49fb-b246-71f128ae6bb4</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;fmandoki&amp;quot;]Thanks for the hint but the video link seems to be gone...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]Works fine here .. logged in user to forum.. click on the &amp;nbsp;link opens ask inga article &amp;nbsp;then see &amp;nbsp;below the picture for the play button&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;as screen shot here....even has &amp;nbsp;sound...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/inga.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/inga.JPG" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417730?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2017 06:31:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2bb2e0f5-b1c3-4a02-969b-816f7277dad4</guid><dc:creator>f.mandoki</dc:creator><description>Thanks for the hint but the video link seems to be gone...&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417679?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:56:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2d747bab-70e1-4ad8-a76c-267e8485d7db</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>Thank you Lorys!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417667?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2017 05:25:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:dfafe8a8-455d-467f-b265-6985d90e04b4</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;helgeh&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hi Lorys&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tank you for these&amp;nbsp;useful tips, i like the idea of sliting up stuff in to different ranges, different layers, thematic map&amp;nbsp;etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;so you would &amp;nbsp;like the cell to have &amp;nbsp;the coordinate values &amp;nbsp;displayed as well as the &amp;nbsp;cell right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Yes this is &amp;nbsp;possible &amp;nbsp;there &amp;nbsp;are examples &amp;nbsp;in the forum and &amp;nbsp;in youtube ... and ask inga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, and I was wondering if you cold send me some of the links for this to look at?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helge&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A place holder cell is what you want ...it contains text Fields, (later you can place that cell via the xyz tools and txt or csv )&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you already made a cell &amp;nbsp;for this so open the cell in the &amp;nbsp;cell library then &amp;nbsp;follow the instructions in ask inga video tip from &amp;nbsp;Samir explains it very well&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/15948.coordinate-cell"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../15948.coordinate-cell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417630?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:23:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:973d68e8-f528-4da0-8a9a-255fc38d1f74</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Lorys&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tank you for these&amp;nbsp;useful tips, i like the idea of sliting up stuff in to different ranges, different layers, thematic map&amp;nbsp;etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;so you would &amp;nbsp;like the cell to have &amp;nbsp;the coordinate values &amp;nbsp;displayed as well as the &amp;nbsp;cell right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Yes this is &amp;nbsp;possible &amp;nbsp;there &amp;nbsp;are examples &amp;nbsp;in the forum and &amp;nbsp;in youtube ... and ask inga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, and I was wondering if you cold send me some of the links for this to look at?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helge&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417601?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:06:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b1221c03-fd8d-4bd6-b6fc-494801b191c5</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;fmandoki&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jon, don&amp;#39;t feel offended. This is a feature I personally need maybe once every three years, so I have no need for a Macro.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I did it exactly as Ron did. In a second go I placed a cell (small circle) to highlight the exact location of the values. There&amp;#39;s no direct way to place such an object along with values I would know of.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;so you would &amp;nbsp;like the cell to have &amp;nbsp;the coordinate values &amp;nbsp;displayed as well as the &amp;nbsp;cell right?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes this is &amp;nbsp;possible &amp;nbsp;there &amp;nbsp;are examples &amp;nbsp;in the forum and &amp;nbsp;in youtube ... and ask inga&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you have to build a &amp;nbsp;cell that &amp;nbsp;can assign Fields to the xy of an origin point.... if you want the &amp;nbsp;T value too that is more difficult, but I like to keep it simple and use the &amp;nbsp;run the import twice and &amp;nbsp;put things on diffferent levels..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I used to &amp;nbsp;this alot in GIS ( mapInfo) but essentially &amp;nbsp;you do the same thing only &amp;nbsp;more steps with plain microstation and &amp;nbsp;with excel you can do a lot ..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Like arrange all the Text ( numeric like your results Bar or pressure) &amp;nbsp;values from high to low &amp;nbsp;or group then &amp;nbsp;so &amp;nbsp;you get &amp;nbsp; 0-20 bar, 21-30 bar etc&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then I would create levels with that &amp;nbsp;range and &amp;nbsp;import the first lot to place my cells by level name and &amp;nbsp;colour, &amp;nbsp;and repeat through all the &amp;nbsp;separate groups ( each a separate csv ... then &amp;nbsp;make a &amp;nbsp;nice colour bar chart &amp;nbsp;result &amp;nbsp;being Thematic mapping of your points &amp;nbsp;you can even add in the total of each groups points next to the &amp;nbsp;bar chart legend.. mind you this would take about &amp;nbsp;30 to 40 mins &amp;nbsp;for the &amp;nbsp;whole show &amp;nbsp;and &amp;nbsp;5 &amp;nbsp;mins in MapInfo (Gis)... but once you get the hang of it, it is &amp;nbsp;mostly &amp;nbsp;done in excel and the import xyz in microstation... this approach can still accommodate actual value text on a hidden level &amp;nbsp;or turned off level...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you &amp;nbsp;make &amp;nbsp;layered pdfs &amp;nbsp;you can even take advantage &amp;nbsp;of only showing &amp;nbsp;specific levels in presentations.. no need for microstation &amp;nbsp;after its been built...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I promise you &amp;nbsp;if you make a Thematic map and pdf layered your boss will think your magic... Management love coloured thematic maps.... pictures &amp;nbsp;speak thousands of words...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you need help &amp;nbsp;please pm me and I&amp;#39;ll be glad to assist you...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417551?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:32:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5cdffca3-3212-4bc9-a319-8856b8428d7c</guid><dc:creator>f.mandoki</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Jon, don&amp;#39;t feel offended. This is a feature I personally need maybe once every three years, so I have no need for a Macro.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I did it exactly as Ron did. In a second go I placed a cell (small circle) to highlight the exact location of the values. There&amp;#39;s no direct way to place such an object along with values I would know of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417511?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:09:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fd2649e8-bd31-4333-88b4-a7228724ba8c</guid><dc:creator>Ron Jones</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s good to know.&lt;br /&gt;The available Order options should change based on whether you are importing into a 2D or 3D file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe even show the user a preview of all the fields available in the input file and allow them to pick which fields in the input file correspond to the X, Y, Z, and TEXT fields.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417504?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:39:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:12325485-8e39-455f-b2d7-01342824c2c2</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Ron Jones&amp;quot;]If you leave the Text: field blank in the dialog shown in my previous post, the text in the T field of the import file will import[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was using CONNECT to test that.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, it doesn&amp;#39;t behave as one expects in a 2D model...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/text_2D00_xyzt_2D00_error.png"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/470x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/text_2D00_xyzt_2D00_error.png" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s placed the Z coordinate as text and ignores the text in the CSV file.&amp;nbsp; At least, that&amp;#39;s when I&amp;#39;m placing 3D coordinates in a 2D model.&amp;nbsp; When I place 3D coordinates in a 3D model it works OK...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/text_2D00_xyzt_2D00_OK.png"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/470x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/text_2D00_xyzt_2D00_OK.png" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417503?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:29:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:cb874496-46ab-4c84-bfdc-54c4fbe2b267</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>Thanks Ron, this is exactly what i was looking for !-)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Regards&lt;br /&gt;
Helge&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417502?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:27:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c0d3a8c6-91c5-449b-b837-d9af38feab64</guid><dc:creator>Ron Jones</dc:creator><description>If you leave the Text: field blank in the dialog shown in my previous post, the text in the T field of the import file will import along with the coordinate.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417501?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:21:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d9869fbd-3a8c-4cfb-b8cf-6ddf2c7cd014</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It seems to work when following Rons suggestion. Just make sure the text field in the import tool is empty. Here is the dgn file. I ran it twice, once as Ron suggested to get in the text only and one time with only the coordinates to get in the points.&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/test_2D00_CFD_2D00_monitorpoints.dgn"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../test_2D00_CFD_2D00_monitorpoints.dgn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regards&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417499?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:54:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:215dd60b-64f4-4b1a-abfc-369762d19d22</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;helgeh&amp;quot;]We easily can output something like the attached ASC testfile[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Ron notes, your format needs adjusting to be compatible with the XYZ import tool.&amp;nbsp; The fields are currently space-separated, and you need to substitute a comma to create a CSV file...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre class="brush: bash; fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; "&gt;12,47,8,10Bar
8,52,8,130.4Bar
9,52,8,10Bar
10,52,8,160Bar
8,53,8,17.5Bar
9,53,8,17.3Bar&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ensure that you&amp;#39;ve removed all extra spaces &amp;mdash; I think the XYZ tool doesn&amp;#39;t work properly if it finds spaces.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[Edit] &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;Unfortunately, the XYZ tool doesn&amp;#39;t do what you expect: &lt;span style="color:#008000;text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;The coordinates from the selected text file are imported into the active design file and are displayed as the text you typed in the Text field&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It doesn&amp;#39;t actually import any text: hence the need for a VBA macro&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417497?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:30:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3609e9f6-9233-4edc-996f-a9b195925088</guid><dc:creator>Ron Jones</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Helge,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can import text with coordinate values in several different arrangements. (TXYZ, TYXZ, XYZT, and YXZT)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The format of the text file you plan to import should be as follows:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;table border="1" style="width:312px;height:102px;"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;Order&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;Formatting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;TXYZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;$,X,Y,Z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;TYXZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;$,Y,X,Z&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;XYZT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;X,Y,Z,$&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;YXZT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="width:100px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;font-size:150%;"&gt;Y,X,Z,$&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Replace the X Y and Z with the actual coordinate values and replace $ with Text (&lt;em&gt;Limit of 10 characters&lt;/em&gt;))&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For the example file you provided you should just replace the spaces with commas to seperate the fields and use the XYZT order as shown below.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;12,47,8,10Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;8,52,8,130.4Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;9,52,8,10Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;10,52,8,160Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;8,53,8,17.5Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;9,53,8,17.3Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;9,43,9,152.1Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;10,43,9,152.6Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;8,44,9,7Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;9,44,9,120Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;10,44,9,172Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;11,44,9,102Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;9,45,9,152Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;10,45,9,125Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;11,45,9,162Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;12,45,9,12Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;9,46,9,12Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;10,46,9,12Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;11,46,9,162Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;12,46,9,12Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;courier new&amp;#39;, courier;"&gt;13,46,9,125Bar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/Capture_5F00_XYZText.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/940x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/Capture_5F00_XYZText.JPG" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HTH,&lt;br /&gt;Ron&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417491?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:15:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:63974964-631d-4f40-8cf0-067381242f71</guid><dc:creator>helgeh</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Jon and fmandoki !&lt;br /&gt;Im using a CFD tool that our company develops ( and sell). Im using it as a consultant for explotions and fire simulations. Its called FLACS ( www.gexcon.com).&lt;br /&gt;So what i am trying to do is to take the results from the CFD simulation and show the values/ results inside microstation. To be more specific, this is monitor points in 3D space that shows some data. It could be pressure, it could be heat-loads or many other things .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its not completely true that i have all the data in excel yet, but i think we easily can output something like the attached ASC testfile ( Ill confirm this with my coworker tomorrow and update this thread. We can probably also change this around, depending on what will work best with microstation. ). And from there take it in to excel if needed. What i am thinking is that i need a point and the text for each xyz coordinate. The point is just for showing the exact position of the coordinate. As i mentioned one of these files could have thousands of monitor points.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I would be interested to hear from both of you how i could do this. Im thinking that in the long run this is something that i defiantly would like to automate, but for now i would probably have to do it more manually.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regards&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Helge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/t_2D00_007.zip"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../t_2D00_007.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417488?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:03:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:9c8af37d-3395-4cf0-a2be-77d269448ae2</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;fmandoki&amp;quot;] There&amp;#39;s no need for a VBA macro, only a bit of brain to get the right sequence of steps[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s no need for MicroStation either.&amp;nbsp; You can draw all your maps on a large sheet of vellum with a quill pen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;fmandoki&amp;quot;]You can&amp;#39;t do it in one go, you&amp;#39;ll have to create two or three Excel files and import them one after another, i. e. place a cell where the value has to go to and then the values themselves as text[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the OP has to import text many times, then your procedure is tedious and prone to human error.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;fmandoki&amp;quot;] I&amp;#39;ll have to check again how I did it[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A VBA macro is a formal record of &amp;#39;how I did it&amp;#39;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In other words, a VBA macro automates repetitive steps, saves time, eliminates human fallibility and doesn&amp;#39;t require a bit of anyone&amp;#39;s brain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417454?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:57:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d03d3f86-8a29-4969-96c7-1bf0f9498776</guid><dc:creator>f.mandoki</dc:creator><description>Hi Helge, I did something similar the other day (placing ground levels from a geometer who sent coordinate files with heights only). You can&amp;#39;t do it in one go, you&amp;#39;ll have to create two or three Excel files and import them one after another, i. e. place a cell where the value has to go to and then the values themselves as text. I&amp;#39;ll have to check again how I did it but there&amp;#39;s no need for a VBA macro, only a bit of brain to get the right sequence of steps. ;-)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: IMPORT COORDINATES AND TEXT USING THE XYZ TOOL</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/417453?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:44:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0108a20a-ea43-4856-9c57-f10e030e7983</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;helgeh&amp;quot;]1:Coordinate; x100 y200 z150 text= 1bar. &lt;br /&gt;2:Coordinate; x300 y200 z250 text= 12bar[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t think that MicroStation&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;Text XYZ&lt;/em&gt; tool can interpret that format. However, it&amp;#39;s a relatively simple matter to write a VBA macro to work with that format.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can you provide a sample file?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;helgeh&amp;quot;]CFD simulations[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What tool do you use for &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics" title="Wikipedia: Computational Fluid Dynamics" target="_blank"&gt;CFD&lt;/a&gt; simulation?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>