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.
Hello everybody,
I have some problem with copy/increment text that I cannnot solve by above tips and any other I tried to find on forum.
I was trying to use some forum's macros but i haven't got what i want.
Here is my problem:
I need to annotate some 100 meteres points by chainage in fomat 000.0 (comma or point doesn't matter for my drawing).
When I'm using copy/increment tool it allows me to increment by integer numer ( help file says), so when i set tag increment to 1 it increments my 459.1 + 1(increment) the result is 459.2 but when it comes to 459.9+1 the result is 459.10 and it istn't what i want = 460.0. Do you have any solution for that?
Below is screen with my tries...
Marek Gaworski
Railway design engineer
SKANSKA Poland
Bentley MX v8.11.9.397
I had a user reach out about a similar vba that I thought other users may benefit from if they're browsing a similar issue. I borrowed Karsten's increment_text.mvba as a backbone. This vba works by the user creating a selection set of all the text items they want incremented, and then running the module. The module will increment each text item by one. It will not change an "A" to a "B". I will increment the number in a string that has the number at the end of the string.increment_selectionset.mvba
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Great, it worked.
Microstation select series 10 ver 08.11.09.919
also have
CONNECT Ed Update 17
Version 10.17.02.61
here is the macro without password.
Sorry for that, but it was (still is) just a quick, not well documented program.
Karsten
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.