Importing a Spreadsheet as a Table - Text is too Small by a factor of 12, and other issues.

I tried to bring in a spreadsheet as the source/seed for a table, and the table and its text came in 12 times too small. When pasting from Excel, in the past, we had to scale it up by 12 times the drawing scale. But with Annotation Scale. its only 1/12 too small. I was able to select the table and use the scale element command, but the table settings - lines, fill, fonts were still rather difficult to reset to something useable. And if I refreshed it from the spreadsheet, it reverted back to its original size.

There seems to be no easy way to set text styles for multiple cells (and other settings) as defaults or after the fact when using an Excel source

There has to be more productive ways of using Tables in MicroStation. 

  • I assume you are talking about the Tables operations within MicroStation CONNECT Edition. Is this Update 13? Are you able to supply an example design file with some screen captures showing the workflow and what is happening?

    https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/87312/read-first-microstation-forum-best-practices

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

  • I tried to bring in a spreadsheet as the source/seed for a table

    That nomenclature is confusing, because a seed table means something different to a data source.

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • /cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/CONNECT-Table-Issues.dgn

    This file uses a migrated form of our original V8 workspace. We use a modified set of units/sheetsizes and scales.def files. Our scales have the feet/inches ratios built into them so to our users, 1" = 50' is a 1:50 ratio. When importing a spreadsheet or Word Document using copy and paste, we could set the tool settings to default to by Size and multiply the scale by 12 ant it was virtual identically sized as if it were printed to paper.

    In Connect, it seems we need to scale it up twice by 12 (144X) to get the same results.


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration
    Maryland DOT - State Highway Administration User Communities Page

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
  • the table and its text came in 12 times too small.

    Greetings,

    To avoid scaling issue, you can create a new text style with desire text height and assign the same text style while importing the Table. 

    Please find the attached video for reference. 

    if I refreshed it from the spreadsheet, it reverted back to its original size.

     The defect (1041914) is already reported for the same.

  • OK, there are still issues, just different issues.

    • The video was helpful, as setting the Seed to None, is not intuitive nor is having it return the Text Style option as a result.
    • When you use the text style, then all cells get that text style size, but all cell justification and any merged cells become unmerged.
    • The cell justification seems to always be a left top once you enable text style.
    • If you fix any of these display issues after import, a refresh discards them once again, reverting back to the original after import situation.

    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration
    Maryland DOT - State Highway Administration User Communities Page

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996