Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

Re: Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

Roy Gallier — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:09:11 GMT

The problem with using the Model Name is it is not as easily changed as the File Name.

dkiellor:
is there a way to knock the file extension off the text substitution _FILES_? If so you could use that as a simple solution.

See Anderw Edge's Blogs, Print Text Substitution & A Step-by-Step Guide for Advanced Pen Table Text Substitution, for specifics. You can define your own text substitution string:

_BASE-FILES_ = $(basename(_DGNFILE)).

HTH - Roy

Re: Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

Lorys — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:04:25 GMT

rename you default model to the sheet name or number in every file

then use pentable text substitution ( look at help for these) to replace during printing the $model$ with the the model name which in your case is the sheet name .. you put that text $model$ into the title block instead of the sheet number

this needs to be done at the begining of each sheet creation so it will be less time consuming however

it would only take a few seconds per file if it has to b e done retrospectively...

now in batch plotting you choose / make a custom printer.plt which has the pentable defined to use the text substution this then makes batch plot automatically substute the the model name in the sheet when ever it finds $model$ ..

providing of course you renamed all your models corectly and your title block has the $modle$ text in it before you run the batch plot ...

this can all be a bit tricky at first but read the printing guide help and the batch plot guide..

personally I printed all the printing guides thats how i worked out all the printing special features ..

You'l l become your office's microstation printing guru in no time ..trust me..

if you really are comming unstuckafter this then email me for further 1 on 1 help..

Lorys

Re: Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

Dave Kiellor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:24:05 GMT

is there a way to knock the file extension off the text substitution _FILES_? If so you could use that as a simple solution.

Re: Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

Thomas Voghera — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:33:26 GMT

If you are looking for numbering of output from Batch Plot pdfs etc have a look in BP Printer Properties.

If you are after numbering of dgns I do't think there is anything short of a database connection.

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regards / Thomas V

<wyocad> wrote in message news:97397@communities.bentley.com...

I am fairly new to both microstation and CAD in general as I have less than 2 years of experience. My boss recently asked me to find out how to set up an automatic sheet numbering system for our batch plot. This seems to me like it might take a lot of programming knowledge if it is even possible to do. I am hoping someone can give some insight on this as my boss has designated this as one of my goals for this year. HELP PLEASE!

Bill

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Re: Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

Phil Chouinard — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:54:43 GMT

To better understand what you are after, could you provide more detail regarding what you mean by "an automatic sheet numbering system"? TIA