Can someone make this awesome little program to work with Connect edition?

Hi

This is an very nice plot/print help to get the right scale to your plot/print and see how the print area is overlapping your design.

https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/askinga/1222/create-plot-shapes-with-this-macro

Can someone change this to Connect edition ?

//Tom

  • From the program, Select your paper size and scale, place it in your design, select fence by boundary, print and choose the the same paper size as you placed and you get right size and scale!
    Easy!

    //Tom

  • Sorry, this with geolocation (known coordinatesystem). For me this is standard, i have my coordinatesystem set i seedfile so everything that comes in or out of this area is attached with the right coordinate system for the information. this is really powerful to get your information located at the right place.

    If you don´t use it I recommend to start NOW, it will pay you back many times over.

    Use the coordinate system attachments!

    //Tom

  • you should still be able use that vba in connect  just do it in the model space  with a GCS set as you normally  do..  but now you need to xref the model space into your sheet space model. 1:1  so the xref lands in the right location then  you can move your sheet space model with title block but dont put the title block at 0,0 like our acad cousins do ..  but  make it  scaled up to the world and move to where it needs it.. this takes more effort.. and you may have to rotate the view inside the clip boundary/ viewport (acad speak)

    other wise you have to do it all acad way , scale xrefs down and move  to inside  sheet boundary which is at at 0,0   you can see the clip boundary that your macro made in modelspace so if its non print level works nicely. .but your pdfs are not georefed as they come from sheet model...

    when you do every thing in model space with a cell  or xref for your title block scaled up to the world the pdfs  can have GCR in them its an advanced option in the pdf driver but I remember it only used/ created WGS 84  when it creates the pdf ...so its trickier to attach it as a raster ref later but does work... most users seem to have adopted the default way to work with sheet models like they have in acad ie scale the refs down to the sheet and  move everything to  0,0.. I dont like this method as its no good  for using the sheet models as xrefs to check things or make keyplans...  but for printing sheet models is so easy and section markers  sheet drg numbers etc can be automated... another reason people like it so much as its same work flow they use in acad.. management believes this makes you more versatile  being able to transition at the drop of a hat jump between packages...I don't agree but I'm old and crusty and don't like acad thats why I'm a microstation specialist and now I don't like connect even more as with the dark theme it looks even more like acad clone..

    If you need more help with your specific situation feel free to pm me and we can work it out together..maybe skype or teams too...

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  • Hi Tom,

    Can you please make an video where you place an sheet at right coordinate system and right plot size/area and print pdf file

    I could, but why do you need to see a video when you can simply test it yourself, its really not difficult to place a sheet on top of a geospatially located model file? Let me know if you have any problems I can advise what I did.

    Here is an example; you can see the survey file is at its original coordinates as there are no offset values, and the Sheet Model and Title block attachment have been moved & rotated into position at the required scale. The survey is also clipped by a non-printing element.

    Then take the pdf file as an raster reference attachment, if it places itself on the same coordinates as you printed it I believe you.

    Now you're moving the goalposts, at no point does the original post mention anything about geolocated PDF's. FWIW I don't use GCS or create geolocated PDF's, however, I see no reason why my above example wouldn't produce what you are looking for if a GCS was attached.

    I don't compose drawings this way i.e. by scaling sheets (the negatives outweigh any perceivable positives); I dislike it as it requires having to insert my Title block tags cell AFTER the sheet is positioned not to mention scaling and rotating it as well. Also, the above example had a survey directly attached into the sheet model for speed as a demonstration. I also don't work that way; instead I would attach the survey into either a Composition Model file, or the design Model of this DGN, make a Saved view and attach the Saved View to the Sheet Model. In this situation I would need to reset the Saved View attachment's coordinates to 0,0 so that it would be in its correct geospatial location and only then move the Title Block attachment into position.

  • You will need VBA anyway as the named boundaries take too much steps. The sheet management in Microstation seems more like hacking not a real workflow at least each time when I try to introduce to users it quickly ends in disaster and they start to scratch their heads and rollback to oldschool methods.