Automatic sheet numbering in V8 2004

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

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

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

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