Copy & Increment Text

Hi,

Something that has bugged me for years with the copy & increment text is that you can only use the command in a verb-noun mode, not in a noun-verb mode.  Here's my regular situation...  I have a detail sheet with a grid of lines.  A certain distance from each intersection of the grid, I have a detail number.  Of course the detail numbers are each incremented by one.  So if I used a standard copy element command, I would select my text element, hit the copy element icon, pick my grid intersection as my "from" location, and then pick my next grid intersection as my "to" location.  (Select element first, then select tool to use with that element--noun-verb).  With the Copy & Increment Text tool, I can not select my element first.  So if I want to use it, I have to zoom way out, so that when I snap to my grid intersection, the detail number is in the locate circle and then I can zoom back in to place my copies.  Why can't the Copy & Increment Text tool work in both verb-noun, and noun-verb modes?

--Thanks,
--Robert

P.S. I've also see forums asking for a "number of copies" option.  This would be useful on occasion.

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  • 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



    increment_text.mvba