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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/96116/textnode-to-text</link><description>Dear all, 
 How to convert textnode to text with the same rotation angle? [Refer attached screenshot]</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/281058?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 12:54:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:18e148cc-5112-4dd4-bd0b-ff7bf6a77c8f</guid><dc:creator>mlm</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If you want to select an existing letter for the rotation you could use AccuDraw(Strg+both mousebuttons) RE or place it at some angle you want RQ or RA then rotate the view with RV. Then use Element Selection to pick up the textstring; choose &amp;quot;Place Text&amp;quot; and place the picked up string to place it as a new text. Then rotate the view back to &amp;quot;unrotated&amp;quot; and eventually delete the first text. (current microStation). I guess this largely could be put into one or two commandstrings if frequently required.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/281042?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:45:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b6667edb-0923-46e6-9221-86b800374861</guid><dc:creator>mlm</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;What are you trying to achieve in the first place? In the current microStation&amp;nbsp;if you place a text &amp;quot;along&amp;quot; a linestring or a curve you can bend the curve or vertexes and even can move it together with the curve (if you do not want to see the curve you could place it e.g. on another level to bend it. (click the pic for a video)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/Text-along.gif"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt=" " src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/Text-along.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280845?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2014 12:12:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:db1f9fb1-9978-4cf5-a85c-7a70152e17b0</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;KarstenEvans&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;......Each text will then be part of a new text node.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;[/quote]&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;First not many users would be advanced enough to make vba code to do that..&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;Secondly the poster was trying to get a solution that didnt create text nodes .. which is what he has before drop complex&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;while replacing the text with two pieces of text is a crude rough down and dirty work around it works in under 5 mins... no vba skill required but if the user has 20 different pieces of text &amp;nbsp;in several files than yes &amp;nbsp;rough and dirty is not adequate...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280740?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:55:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:86db6276-1644-4601-899c-35141252938c</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Dharmarajan&amp;quot;]Can I get a code snippet to achieve this?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Post that question to the MicroStation &lt;a target="_blank" title="Be Communities: MicroStation Programming Forum" href="/products/programming/microstation_programming/f/343173.aspx"&gt;Programming Forum&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps someone has either written something similar, or will rise to the challenge.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Jan Slegr&amp;quot;]I have no such code and despite of it&amp;#39;s probably not very complex, it cannot be done in 5 minutes as a short relaxation from normal work, so sorry, I cannot send you it[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well said!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280738?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:46:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:36e52268-5780-49e7-8082-32260cc9a3d1</guid><dc:creator>KarstenEvans</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;or maybe a simple cell2txtnode.ma/mvba might do it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Might be a neat util.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Will try and create one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280737?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:45:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:87ab04e2-580c-4298-ad07-12bf5232b7f2</guid><dc:creator>KarstenEvans</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Why not use MDL or vba.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Write a selection app, then after selecting the dropped texts &amp;nbsp;group them in the vba/mdl, which makes an orphan cell.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then do a dirty and alter its type from 2 cell header to 7 &amp;nbsp;text node and rewrite the descriptor in the modify routine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Used to do this to create Intergraph type 62 elements from Omnipipe graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Each text will then be part of a new text node.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280722?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:33:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:eb8db495-5882-439a-8194-012074e01f02</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You cannot fix this with plain microstation ( without vba) but when I examine your file each letter &amp;nbsp;after I dropped the text each letter has different angle of rotation we cannot do this in microstation text unless we use along element or above element placement feature.. but as you discovered &amp;nbsp;it creates a text node&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As the rotation angle was so small a difference between I was able to approximate the angle with &amp;nbsp;TWO lines &amp;nbsp;and use the &amp;nbsp;place Text Above for the CANO &amp;nbsp;part as a separate word then CARATE as a second word above the next line this produces just text that looks very close to the right angles &amp;nbsp;also reproduced what you &amp;nbsp;have by create curve an place text above the text it makes a text node as you have ... but as the radius of your original curve is so big I dont think anyone would &amp;nbsp;be able to tell my text &amp;nbsp;2 words isnt right... only other way is to use a GIS package like mapInfo and use labels not text... but thats not an option for you...in this forum...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/text-node.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image.ashx/__size/550x0/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/text-node.JPG" border="0" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure url="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/telligent-evolution-components-attachments/00-273-01-00-00-28-07-22/TextNode.DGN" length="55296" type="application/octet-stream" /></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280715?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:18:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:07d6f41a-4a34-4070-b65c-7a41e8f6585f</guid><dc:creator>Jan Šlegr</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Dharmarajan,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Dharmarajan&amp;quot;]Can I get a code snippet to achieve this?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Jon noticed, it&amp;#39;s not fully clear how the result should looks like. It would be helpful to not only provide input data example, but also what exact result is expected. I assume it should be one text element where the first letter has the same position and rotation as the source first letter, but I can imagine also other solutions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Code snippet ... I am sure if anybody already solved such problem in the past, he will share it&amp;#39;s knowledge or even the results. I have no such code and despite of it&amp;#39;s probably not very complex, it cannot be done in 5 minutes as a short relaxation from normal work, so sorry, I cannot send you it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With regards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; Jan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280713?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:07:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:65bfe223-7ccb-4511-b016-99a0f205d626</guid><dc:creator>Dharma Rajan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Dear Jan/Jon,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your suggestion. Can I get a code snippet to achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280708?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:30:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b345c388-6ecb-4f42-8908-025c8566cc41</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Dharmarajan&amp;quot;]Please find the attached sample DGN [/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the example &amp;mdash; it helps a lot!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Dharmarajan&amp;quot;] I need it as a single text element without affecting existing [text]rotation angle[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The text node holds a number of text elements.&amp;nbsp; Each text element stores a single character having a unique orientation.&amp;nbsp; Using DROP COMPLEX creates a set of text elements, each having its own orientation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t see how you could create a single text element without affecting existing rotation angle, because it would be the words &lt;em&gt;ca&amp;ntilde;o carate&lt;/em&gt; having a single orientation.&amp;nbsp; In other words, which of the individual characters would be the source of the new text element&amp;#39;s orientation?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#39;s no tool that I&amp;#39;m aware of that will take a set of text elements and assemble them into a single text element.&amp;nbsp; You need to follow Jan&amp;#39;s suggestion and write a VBA macro.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280704?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:46:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:74aa2550-a640-4bb8-86f4-76ffc3c87a33</guid><dc:creator>Dharma Rajan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hai Jon,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apply &amp;#39;DROP COMPLEX&amp;#39; will produce multiple [text]elements. But I need it as a single text element without affecting existing [text]rotation angle. please find the attached sample DGN for your reference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here we are using Microstation Version 08.05.01.25 Windows x86.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><enclosure url="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/telligent-evolution-components-attachments/00-273-01-00-00-28-07-04/TextNode.DGN" length="55296" type="application/octet-stream" /></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280703?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 07:37:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a10cb56c-5de7-48a9-8f70-87fa98ff2f0f</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;What do you see when you apply DROP COMPLEX to that text node?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Dharmarajan&amp;quot;]Can I get a code snippet on this?[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You would need to provide the DGN model, rather than a screenshot.&amp;nbsp; Otherwise nobody can tell what you really have there.&amp;nbsp; Also, confirm that you use, and intend to continue using, MicroStation V8&amp;nbsp;2004&amp;nbsp;Edition, because it seems that it behaves differently to the current MicroStation&amp;nbsp;V8&lt;em&gt;i&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280698?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 06:36:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:753cfcc2-9935-4fac-8799-c5f8cea02093</guid><dc:creator>Dharma Rajan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hai Jan,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can I get a code snippet on this?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280694?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:45:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:bf717e1a-bb58-4552-9c96-7f031c7b9d65</guid><dc:creator>Jan Šlegr</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Jon Summers&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Key-in command&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DROP COMPLEX&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#39;s not the solution. I tried it and it seems it doesn&amp;#39;t work in my V8 2004 Edition installation, the text placed along an element is not dropped to an independent texts (but it works fine in the current version).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But unfortunately even if it&amp;#39;s dropped, the requirement to receive text with the same rotation angle is not fulifilled.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In my opinion it cannot be done easily in V8 2004 Edition, but VBA macro can probably help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Regards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; Jan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280693?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:42:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:390a6f1f-bc83-4c98-a3a1-7cb6094144a3</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Bell</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Looking at the text node in the image it seems like this was produced using a method of maybe Along Element. It may have also been produced using a 3rd party software package. Each letter within this text node looks like it may be individually placed. You could use the keyin DROP COMPLEX, as explained by Jon Summers, or the Drop Element tool but I suspect this may drop each of these letters as individual pieces of text. Try out these tools and see how you go with its operation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: TextNode to text</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/280692?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3dab504c-9709-4e9e-bee9-5d937df723d3</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Key-in command&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;DROP COMPLEX&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>