Export Text or Text Nodes to KMZ

HI Warren,

Not sure I follow exactly what you are looking to do, can you supply an image or DGN with the intended result?

What I'm getting and what I'm looking for are illustrated in the figure below.

The top text nodes have been exported to Google Earth KMZ and they are big and slow because the Arial letters are converted into shapes.

What I would like to export is shown below - the next nodes are exported as pins instead, with the text as the name of the pin.

Any ideas?

From what I've seen of the export options and doing some basic testing, MicroStation can't give you what you seek aside from the line geometry. I think the only way to achieve those pin marks is:

1. Export the cell insertion point coordinates (unsure if using Export Coordinates and a GCS will export to Lat/Long instead of XYZ. If not, you'd need to convert them.
2. Manually editing a KML file, pasting each coordinate and the desired name. Probably simplest to open Google Earth, place a single placemark, name it and export that to KML. Then open the file in Notepad++ , copy the lines pertaining to your test placemark for every required placemark, and paste the Lat/Long coordinates and the name you wish for each.
3. Import the KML into Google Earth

There might be a way to do some of the work in Excel, perhaps somehow being able to import data from a CSV. Its just conjecture on my part as I don't do anything with Google Earth.

From what I've seen of the export options and doing some basic testing, MicroStation can't give you what you seek aside from the line geometry. I think the only way to achieve those pin marks is:

1. Export the cell insertion point coordinates (unsure if using Export Coordinates and a GCS will export to Lat/Long instead of XYZ. If not, you'd need to convert them.
2. Manually editing a KML file, pasting each coordinate and the desired name. Probably simplest to open Google Earth, place a single placemark, name it and export that to KML. Then open the file in Notepad++ , copy the lines pertaining to your test placemark for every required placemark, and paste the Lat/Long coordinates and the name you wish for each.
3. Import the KML into Google Earth

There might be a way to do some of the work in Excel, perhaps somehow being able to import data from a CSV. Its just conjecture on my part as I don't do anything with Google Earth.