• 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…
    • 3 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…
    • 4 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • 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
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  • 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…
    • 3 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • 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
  • 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
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    • 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
  • 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
  • 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…
    • 3 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
  • 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