RE: Pentable/Text Substitutions

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RE: Pentable/Text Substitutions

MaryB — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:49:17 GMT

Depending on your version, you could use a text field for the Sheet Number model property. That would be a lot simpler to manage and it can account for non-consecutive numbering.

I'm also not sure that the pen table logic works that way. The text substitution is a string function, not a variable function. It looks at one string of characters and substitutes another set of characters. You can only run one pen table for plot set, as far as I know. I'm not even sure it would be able to run those commands consecutively within the same pen table - it's possible that once a string has been recognized and substituted it is excluded from further processing. But I'm not certain about that.

It would make a long and cumbersome text substitution list.

I know next to nothing about design scripts, but that might be another option to look into for further processing.

What version of Microstation are you using? If your version allows it, the text field sheet number would be my recommendation.

You can always try it and see if it works. The worst thing to happen would be nothing.