How can I select Lines?

Hi,

I have thousands of lines in hundreds of files are on different angle,
and they are crossing each other.. (They are on same attributes).

Is there any way to select the lines which are on a specific angle?
Or can I do that with EDG?

If yes how?

Thanks in advance for any responds..

 

Al-Maraghi...

you could use a microstation macro, this would be an easy way.

something like:

filepos=element.fromFile(0, 0)
Do While filepos>=0
select case element.Type
case MBE_LINE
if(TestAngleWithTolerance)
DoSomeThing
end select
filepos=element.fromFile(filepos+element.fileSize, 0, true,
true)
loop

 

Thanx Volker..

But I have no any idea about macros creating.. only cut from some
places & paste to collect a macro.

But when I tried to do what you mentioned, it poped up with a massage
says that: "Compilation failed at line 1. Syntax Error"

 

Al-Maraghi...

this was not a complete macro, just a snipset, to give you an idea.

Macros start with "sub main" and ends with "end sub", but this wound help
you very much.

the problem are the parts "TestAngleWithTolerance" were you have to build
some code to detect the right elements, i.g. by angle. and the
"DoSomeThing", were you must tell the macro, what you want to do with the
element.

Perhaps you find someone with an better idea in the official Bentley
newsgroup at news.viecon.com

Volker

 

You could do this in V8 with the batch process.
you get your macro first that selects by angle.. sorry not in my league.
but then you tellit what you want to do with command line commands
and then you just tell the batch processor which files you want to do this
to and away it goes..
In theory you should be able to get a macro to do what you want in V7 even
if you pay a programmer then create a script file that would open all the
files one at at time and perform the macro operation and close the file and
procede to the next..
try posting to bentley.microstation.v7.programming newsgroup
at discussion.bentley.com
select by using angle thats too hard for me!