Copy & Increment Text

There is certainly room for improvement there.

Another thing that is rather annoying is that it only works on texts and not on text nodes. When you place a text, even something as simple as A1, in a DWG then text is always converted to a text node wich means the copy increment text tool doesn't work at all when working in a DWG. Even saving the DWG as a DGN will still have the tool not work on text originating from the DWG (even after dropping the complex status to simple text).

If they're going to work on this tool they might as well consider adding the option of incrementing the text instead of the number. e.g. from 7A to 7B, 7C, etc.

Since this is a preexisting issue I brought this out into the light for all to share input.  If this is a much desired feature I would reccommend putting up a poll to see community interest and then have a change request files on it.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but one post spoke about number of copies. Here is my workflow:

When setting up files where there are multiple sheets and need sequential numbers, I always use AccuDraw to set them up at a specific spacing which can vary depending upon the scale. For arguments sake, lets assume these are 200 master units horizontally or 100 units vertically.

After I place my starting number. I select the copy and increment tool and data point on my number. Next, I key in:

DX=200,0|[number of copies needed] if I am using horizontally spaced sheets, or

DX=0,100|[number of copies needed]

Note: the character between the DX= and the [number of copies needed] is the pipe or vertical bar | character.

This works for other types of copy commands too.

Drat!

I was going to tell him all about the pipe command ie |  

It works for me with the copy increment text and te pipe command.... I use it to label parking bays a lot!

Other cad programs have a simple beginning/end numbver butn or switch and also alha/numeric switch.

Start with these simple options first.

Agreed, first/last and number/text should be enough options for most that find this tool lacking. Optionally a number of copies field could be added, even though the pipe workaround seems to be there for the people that need it. It could be nice to have though, and certainly wouldn't hurt.

I wrote a simple macro some time ago. First copy whatever Elements with simple Text A1(no textnode, no cell) and in the second step run these macro.

text has to be A1 or a1 or 1A or 1a or  single Letter a/A/1

vba run increment_first increments the first Letter or digit

vba run increment_second increments the second Letter or digit

vba run increment_one increments one Letter or digit

advantage is that you can copy elements with all different  Microstation functions(straight, polar , along path) and then change the text

I wrote a simple macro some time ago. First copy whatever Elements with simple Text A1(no textnode, no cell) and in the second step run these macro.

text has to be A1 or a1 or 1A or 1a or  single Letter a/A/1

vba run increment_first increments the first Letter or digit

vba run increment_second increments the second Letter or digit

vba run increment_one increments one Letter or digit

advantage is that you can copy elements with all different  Microstation functions(straight, polar , along path) and then change the text

that looks very cool. Would be very handy for setting out stair numbers also and carparks

these version increments also textnodes (Koert mentioned this)

Wow! thanks Karsten...

Go to Envisioncad website and get the create multiline tool.. its free and even turns arcs and bsplines into multilines!

Brilliant now we can really use multilines... hurry as its only there until the end of april....

Following up on this I think there should also be a checkbox for make copy.

Sometimes people just have to renumber things. The numbers are not in a straight line or even equidistant. When one support or whatever has to be added or removed, then the rest just have to be renumbered. Of course we're talking hundreds of numbers in no particular direction that all need to be incremented.

I found MathsText_V7 here communities.bentley.com/.../180042.aspx

, but nothing that actually works for V8. Would have been really cool if it worked.

Selecting the numbers first and then executing the command is required. If elements are selected that are not supported then just skip those. Karsten's macro could also be a good starting point if it weren't PW protected and so limited in what texts you can use it on. 8, 9, 10, 11 just won't go to 9, 10, 11, 12, it just changes one character, and seems to emove leading zeros as well.

here is the macro without password.

Sorry for that, but it was (still is) just a quick, not well documented program.

Karsten