EXPORT X-Y DATA INCLUDING "ID ELEMENT" USING MICROSTATION V8-2004 PROCESS

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Hi. I need to export the X-Y coordenates of the center point of an object. 
 I use MICROSTATION V8 2004. 
 But I need to include in de .txt the ID ELEMENT, to know wich coordenate is each ID. 
 how can I do the process? 
 Thanks regards. Jess.

Jon Summers · Answer

Jesus Angulo said: I need to export the X-Y coordinates of the center point of an object.
I need to include in the .txt the Element ID 
 There's an updated version of the freeware Text Coordinate Exporter ... 
 
 It's a VBA macro, and should work equally in MicroStation V8 i and MicroStation CONNECT. MicroStation 2004 Edition may be a different story. 
 The Text Coordinate Exporter creates a CSV file like this... 
 Element ID, X, Y, Z
1229, 100300.00, 50300.00, 0.00
1233, 100700.00, 50700.00, 0.00
1480, 100163.67, 50757.55, 0.00
1497, 32945.88, 31829.49, 0.00
1498, 32979.82, 31816.27, 0.00 
 The first column is the text Element ID . 
 You don't need to be a VBA whizz to use this utility. Download the VBA project from the link above. Unzip the project and put it somewhere where MicroStation can find it. Follow the instructions to run it. 
 If you are a VBA whizz, then you'll find that the project is not locked and you can look at the source code.

Jon Summers · Answer

Jesus Angulo said: I use MICROSTATION V8 2004 
 That's a very old version of MicroStation. Can you upgrade to something more recent? 
 Jesus Angulo said: I need to include in de .txt the ID ELEMENT, to know wich coordenate is each ID 
 MicroStation has an XYZ Text tool that you can use to import/export coordinate data. 
 However, that tool does not harvest element IDs. For that, you would need a VBA macro. We wrote a VBA tool to export text coordinates : you could modify that to include the element ID in the CSV file. 
 Another approach would be to use FlexiTable , which harvests all kinds of DGN element data, including the Element ID... 
 
 Unfortunately, FlexiTable is no longer maintained for MicroStation V8 2004 Edition.

Lorys · Answer

you may be able to import the file if you have access to a GIS program QGIS ( is free) will only accept V7 or DXF but you may have more luck with MapInfo or Esri products.. and create a table of coords and id... 
 If you update to CE you could create a report to get what you want... 
 If you update or V8i you can use project explorer and create a properties report but I would have to read through a lot of documentation to figure out how to search for it 
 But 2004 is really 16 years old and I do not remember how to use it or it there were any tricks

EXPORT X-Y DATA INCLUDING "ID ELEMENT" USING MICROSTATION V8-2004 PROCESS

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