Automated List of X-Refs in Drawing Sheet

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Hi All, 
 
 I was wondering if there is a command in MS to automatically produce a list of x-refs the drawing is referencing, so that a list can be placed in the title block of the drawing for future ease of reference and for those that cannot open the MS file. 
 
 Kind Regards, 
 
 Nimesh

David Trejo-Rodriguez · Accepted Answer

There isn't one quick command to achieve what you would like but with the introduction of Reports and Tables in the CONNECT Edition of MicroStation you can create a report definition in a dgnlib that searches for references in the current model. 
 Once the definition is made you can place that report as a table in sheet. The benefit of relying on a Report definition is that the table can be easily updated. 
 For some background you can see the following: 
 https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/m/microstation_gallery/272134 
 https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/23889/how-to-update-table-with-modified-contents-from-source-file

Jon Summers · Answer

What version of MicroStation are you using? 
 Unknown said: I was wondering if there is a command in MS to automatically produce a list of x-refs the drawing is referencing 
 Open the References dialog to see the current reference models attached to the active model. 
 I think you can Ctrl-C to copy that list to the Windows clipboard. Then start a place text command and Ctrl-V to place the reference list as text. 
 There may be more sophisticated ways to automate the reference listing, but those methods are likely to be version-dependent. For example, with MicroStation CONNECT you can create a Report that lists details of reference attachment. A Report can be exported in several formats that can be opened by external applications such as Excel.

Tim Hickman · Answer

In CONNECT Edition there is also the sheet index and this can also be placed as a table.

Automated List of X-Refs in Drawing Sheet

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