• Item Types - Begin & End Station of a line from reference alignment

    Brendan Sheehy
    Brendan Sheehy
    I'm hoping to utilize item types to be able to compute and create quantity tables for one of my projects in ORD. I'm currently using ORD CE 2021 Release 2. I don't have much experience with item types and zero experience with expressions, but hoping to…
    • 1 month ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • Item Type Expression Builder - Terrain elevation at Point

    Travis Wallenfang
    Travis Wallenfang
    Is it possible to get information from a terrain? Example - elevation of active terrain at the (x,y) coordinate of "this.getElement()" Ultimately hoping to have an item carry the existing and proposed elevations of utility points to help determine adjustment…
    • 2 months ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • Item Type Expression to Get Latitude / Longitude

    Leonard Jones
    Leonard Jones
    Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): 10.17.02.61 Environment: N\A Area: Properties Subarea: Item Types Item Type Expression to Get Latitude / Longitude Background Request from User: Is it…
    • 3 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • Problems with Template Studio atm?

    Daniel Heldt
    Daniel Heldt
    Does anyone else have problems with Template Studio atm? Yesterday all worked fine. But today it crashes every time when i try to save an new expression...
    • Answered
    • 5 months ago
    • OpenGround | gINT | Keynetix
    • OpenGround Forum
  • Parametric cells Item Type Volume crashes

    Josh Kerry
    Josh Kerry
    Hi Community, Microstation Connect V:10.17.01.62 Having issues when adding an Item Type Property. I create the property "Volume" set it to type to "Number" with units "m^3" Expression - "this.GetElement().Volume" Now this works when i attach…
    • 6 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • Cross Section Annotation Filter

    Nelson Wienke
    Nelson Wienke
    I've search high and low and am not able to find any documentation on "Annotation Filters" and how the "expressions" work. There's nothing in OpenRail Designer Help Website about Annotation Filters or Cross Section Frame Annotation. Does anybody…
    • 10 months ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • 10.11 Item Types properties are different

    Mike Madrid
    Mike Madrid
    So I found that a lot of the 10.10 expressions don't work in 10.11. for example: 10.10: LookUp.GetEntry("PayItems","Item", this.Pay_Item).Unit 10.11: LookUp.GetEntry("PayItems","DESCRIPTION", this["Description"])["BIDITEM"] same expression…
    • 11 months ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • Studio - 'if' function syntax

    Joseph Ang
    Joseph Ang
    Hi all, I'm running into an issue with the 'if' statements on Template Studio that is unintuitive to me. I input the following expression: if([LocationDetails.CoordinateDisplay] = 'Lat/Long', textStyle('Latitude: ', '700', 'Normal', '000000') +…
    • Answered
    • 11 months ago
    • OpenGround | gINT | Keynetix
    • OpenGround Forum
  • 'or' and 'and' Expression functionality

    Joseph Ang
    Joseph Ang
    Has anyone tried using the 'or' and 'and' expressions in Template Studio? I've tried to use them in the expression without success. It appears OpenGround Template Studio doesn't recognize them as functions. I'm not sure if I'm using the wrong syntax.…
    • Answered
    • 11 months ago
    • OpenGround | gINT | Keynetix
    • OpenGround Forum
  • Expression to extract Start, End coordinates of a Arc element

    A_F
    A_F
    Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): 10.17.00.209 Environment: N\A Area: Properties Subarea: Item Types Expression to extract Start, End coordinates of a Arc element Background Request from…
    • 2 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • Distance along curve

    Jaimin Patel
    Jaimin Patel
    Hi Experts, I am trying to figure out if there is a way in MicroStation or OpenBuildings to measure distance along a curve using the Itemtype expression. As shown in the picture below, I have a B-spline curve and some Circles along the path but not…
    • over 1 year ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • Items Types - Calculate Area of terrains with Item Types

    Louis van Amerongen
    Louis van Amerongen
    We try to build a library of item types that can be attached to Feature Definitions. In the Items tab in the Project Explorer properties like the length, area etc. can be read or filtered from the model. This works fine for Geometry (see image 1). For…
    • over 1 year ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • Item Type Expression for Cell Level Name (Active Level of Cell)

    Stuart Travis
    Stuart Travis
    Hi all this.GetElement().GetDisplayString("Level") This will not work on cells this.GetElement().CellName I can get the cellname with this. But not the active level. My item type reports on element levels will be blank whenever attached to a cell…
    • over 1 year ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • Is there a way to add comments in the Item Type Expressions?

    Jack Riesenberg, P.E.
    Jack Riesenberg, P.E.
    I have tried some of the most common comment designators, but I am not seeing a way to add a comment to an expression. It would be helpful for some of the longer and more complicated expressions to have the ability to add notes as with any programming…
    • Answered
    • over 2 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • How to activate expressions in Item types

    Chris Hunt
    Chris Hunt
    Hi, How is the option to add expresisons to item types made available? When I create a new Property Definition from the Item Types Panel, I dont get the option to add an expresison as shown in link below, I just get Type, Is Array, and Default Value.…
    • Answered
    • over 2 years ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • ECSchema, What is It?

    Andrew Bell
    Andrew Bell
    Product: MicroStation Version: 10.00.xx.xx Environment: N\A Area: Properties Subarea: General Purpose A general overview of what EC is and features used across Bentley, i.e. MicroStation, Tools…
    • over 2 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • [CE U14] - ITEMTYPE - Names and effect on Expressions

    Gregory Smith
    Gregory Smith
    I understand from previous forum questions that non basic text should NOT be used for ITEMTYPE names, e.g. "-", "?" etc. However, I have found an issue with prefixing names with numbers. While acceptable to Microstation and causes no errors in simple…
    • over 2 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15 - (Public Technology Preview) Expression Builder

    Smrutirekha Mahapatra
    Smrutirekha Mahapatra
    You can now build your expressions easily and intuitively using the new Expression Builder dialog . We introduced Item Types Expressions in a recent MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update to allow our users to use calculated properties within Item types…
    • over 2 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Blog
  • Item Type Expression for Numbering Element without repetition

    rold
    rold
    Im wanted to add an element number or Part number in my 3D model as an item type. Is there any one that can help me with the expression to do this numbering automatically without repetition if that element or part number already exist? Example …
    • over 2 years ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • Expression to extract Start, End coordinates of a line element

    A_F
    A_F
    Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): 10.14.02.01 Environment: N\A Area: Properties Subarea: Item Types Expression to extract Start, End coordinates of a line element Background Request from…
    • 2 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • Creating Title block with Item type + EC Expression +Texts

    Sanjivani Ichake
    Sanjivani Ichake
    In this Blog, we will show you how you can create title blocks with Connected Project and Workset/Workspace properties using item types. By following the steps here below we will create an example title block with the required text fields driven by…
    • over 3 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Blog
  • Array with variables and expression builder

    Jeff Berleth
    Jeff Berleth
    Hello all, I would like to know if anyone has developed a way to produce a polar array (rectangular or linear would be of interest also) with variables and expression builder for either 2d or 3d. Ultimately I would like to create a plate that has holes…
    • Answered
    • over 4 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • Annotation filter X-sect

    M Bos
    M Bos
    I wonder if there is a handout or manual explaining the annotation filter options. Currently on Openroads R1 update 7. Need help on creating a filter that excludes all features except the edge off pavement feature. So the segment between eop's can…
    • over 4 years ago
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite
    • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
  • ItemType Expression Syntax Definitions

    John Davidson
    John Davidson
    Is there a list of Item Expression Syntax Definitions available, there is a few in the help but I am guessing there is many more. I am also looking for Examples of expressions using a calculation of Element Information (area, length etc.) with the values…
    • over 4 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
  • SIG Virtual Workshop: gINT – March 7, 2018 – You're Invited!

    Patsy Gant
    Patsy Gant
    Have you ever struggled with a gINT report that didn't provide the output you expected? Perhaps you knew something was off in your report expressions, but you just couldn't trace it. Then the next gINT Special Interest Group (SIG) virtual workshop is…
    • over 5 years ago
    • OpenGround | gINT | Keynetix
    • OpenGround | gINT | Keynetix Announcement Forum
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