Export Model List

RE: Export Model List

David Sullivan — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:10:52 GMT

Thank you all so very much for all the information and guidance. I will definitely take a look at all you said and review the training. Thanks again!

God bless,

David

RE: Export Model List

Jan Šlegr — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:32:37 GMT

[quote userid="2269" url="~/products/programming/f/developers-and-programming-forum/172917/export-model-list/498841"]CONNECT Reports are excellent.[/quote]

I mostly agree it's the great feature, but it's not without bugs and I found some scenarios not supported (partially or completely). On the other hand ... they will probably never be spotted by normal user :-)

Regards,

Jan

RE: Export Model List

Jon Summers — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 14:03:20 GMT

[quote userid="2473" url="~/products/programming/f/developers-and-programming-forum/172917/export-model-list/498829"]It's also possible to define own report[/quote]

CONNECT Reports are excellent. I've posted some examples.

RE: Export Model List

Jan Šlegr — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:15:43 GMT

Hi David,

[quote userid="721226" url="~/products/programming/f/developers-and-programming-forum/172917/export-model-list/498592"] In addition to the information that Jose's suggestion will get me: Model Type, 2D/3D, Annotation, and Sheet Name.[/quote]

In such case, I think MicroStation VBA is the only solution in V8i, how to collect this information and store them in a file. Especially because Sheet properties are not part of standard model information, but has to be retrieved separately when the model is sheet.

[quote userid="721226" url="~/products/programming/f/developers-and-programming-forum/172917/export-model-list/498592"]We will be moving the Cells over to ORD-CE soon and it would be nice to be able to record all the Cell information and be able to track the changes as we make them.[/quote]

If ORD is your target platform, it can be easier to do such export in ORD and not in V8i. CONNECT Edition is much better when a summary of information about any type of object (file, model ... elements...) should be displayed:

I's also possible to define own report (it's a bit more limited than standard Details and Properties dialogs).

I am not sure whether and how it can be automated, but for a ferw files, it's pretty simple to export the data manually or to copy and paste them to Excel.

[quote userid="721226" url="~/products/programming/f/developers-and-programming-forum/172917/export-model-list/498592"]I am somewhat new to the programming side of things and I could use some instructions on how to run your VBA.[/quote]

Leonard provided nice list of resources where you can obtain more information how to work with MicroStation VBA macros.

With regards,

Jan

RE: Export Model List

Leonard Jones — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:08:24 GMT

Some VBA resources…

Getting Started with Visual Basic

Book: Learning MicroStation VBA

Training: MicroStation VBA Programming Learning Path

Took the liberty to save Jan’s VBA to a MVBA file

communities.bentley.com/.../ExportModelList.mvba

RE: Export Model List

David Sullivan — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:01:27 GMT

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the help. To clarify what I am looking for, sorry for not being clearer, I was hoping to get most if not all the information showed in the Models list in MicroStation V8i SS2. In addition to the information that Jose's suggestion will get me: Model Type, 2D/3D, Annotation, and Sheet Name. We will be moving the Cells over to ORD-CE soon and it would be nice to be able to record all the Cell information and be able to track the changes as we make them.

I am somewhat new to the programming side of things and I could use some instructions on how to run your VBA. I have copied the text to a .txt file and have tried to run it through the batch process but it did not work. I have also replaced '.txt' with '.mvba' to the file name and tried to load it through 'mdl load ...' but that did not work either. I am sure I am missing something simple. Thanks a lot!

God bless,

David

RE: Export Model List

David Sullivan — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 12:49:34 GMT

Hi Jose,

Thanks, that will work for some of what I hoped to get for information. I was hoping to get more information including: Model Type, 2D/3D, Annotation, and Sheet Name. We will be moving the Cells over to ORD-CE soon and it would be nice to be able to record all the Cell information and be able to track the changes as we make them. I will share this with Jan since he has another good suggestion. Thanks a lot!

God bless,

David

RE: Export Model List

Jan Šlegr — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 08:11:31 GMT

Hi David,

it's not clear what information you would like to record (model name onlyu, anything else?) and what level of automation is required (manuall, key-in, batch process...). Jose's advice is the best in my opinion for manual export, which maybe is enough for you. MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 2) does not provide any reporting functionality.

An alternative solution when an automation is required (e.g. to record models from more models in batch process) is to use MicroStation VBA macro. I found (and modified a bit) some my older code (I guess I created it for some training ;-)

Option Explicit

Const outputFolder = "D:\temp\"

Public Sub SaveListOfModels()
    
    Dim outputFileNum As Integer: outputFileNum = 1
    Dim outputFile As String: outputFile = ConstructExportFileFullPath
    
    Open outputFile For Append As outputFileNum
    
    SaveListOfModelsToFile outputFileNum
    
    Close outputFileNum

End Sub

Private Sub SaveListOfModelsToFile(fileNum As Integer)

    Dim model As ModelReference
    
    For Each model In ActiveDesignFile.Models
        Print #fileNum, model.Name
    Next

End Sub

Private Function ConstructExportFileFullPath() As String

    Dim activeDesignFileName As String: activeDesignFileName = ActiveDesignFile.Name
    Dim exportFileName As String: exportFileName = outputFolder & activeDesignFileName & ".txt"
    ConstructExportFileFullPath = exportFileName

End Function

With regards,

Jan

RE: Export Model List

Jose Pinho — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:06:42 GMT

Hi David.

[quote userid="721226" url="~/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/172917/export-model-list"]Is there a way to export the list of all the Models in a V8i SS2 .dgn file?[/quote]

Open the Models dialog and here you can select all the desired models and hit CTRL+C and next open the desired program like Notepad or Excel and hit CTRL+V

You'll get the list with:

Name | Description | Cell Type | Design File.

Be mindful that if one of these tabs are turned off in Models dialog the respective data will not be copy.

Hope this helps and regards

RE: Export Model List

David Sullivan — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:33:47 GMT

Thanks Jon,

I will look into FlexiTable.

RE: Export Model List

Jon Summers — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:26:37 GMT

[quote userid="721226" url="~/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/172917/export-model-list"]Is there a way to export the list of all the Models in a V8i SS2 .dgn file?[/quote]

FlexiTable can do that.

[quote userid="721226" url="~/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/172917/export-model-list"]It would be very helpful for managing Cell Libraries too.[/quote]

A cell is a model: a model is a cell. A cell library is a DGN file having a .cel extension.