Besides the actual dragging of the point in a drawing, you can use any of the functions offered by communication modules. These functions are available from the menu File.
Besides dragging the points from the GROMA system with the mouse, you can also directly load the coordinate list in text format using this module. After calling the command File->Load, a dialog window is displayed where you can set the type of the text file (coordinates order). You can choose the file to be imported after pressing the button (Choose). If you switch off the button Write in drawing, the point will be displayed on the screen only, and they will disappear when the screen refreshes. This option can be used to check the correctness of the set parameters, etc.
If you want to create the individual points in the drawing, choose the command File->Create point. The program displays a dialog window where you can enter a point number and height; you can create points in the drawing using the key <Data>. After creating a point, the point number automatically is increased by one.
Using this function, you can edit the descriptive data (prefix, number, height, description) of the points in the drawing.
When importing from the coordinate list, it is often convenient to only turn on the information on points and turn off all the other items. Therefore, only the items of the PointString type will be created in the drawing. The dynamic point displaying can be turned on with them. Therefore, when manipulating the points, it is enough to manipulate with one item only, the descriptions move automatically with the point. When the drawing is done, you can batch generate descriptions according to the set attributes.
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Description generating is controlled by the set attributes. Before the batch generation, it is first necessary to turn on the required items (numbers, heights) in the attribute settings. |
After calling the command File->Export coordinate list, a dialog window is displayed which allows you to choose a type and name of the final text coordinate list. After pressing the button(Record) and confirming by the button <Data> in the pertinent projection, a coordinate list is created in which all the points, which have the point information connected are written (see Display attributes). The point will keep the original number and will get the updated coordinates from the drawing. In this way, an updated coordinate list can be created in case the points were manipulated on the plan during drawing creation.
Only the points which have information (PointString) stored in the level which is turned on in the pertinent projection will be written in the file. The points from the turned-off levels will not be written in the file.
If there is a Fence in the drawing, only the points lying within the fence will be written in the file; otherwise the content of the entire drawing will be written.
You can batch transfer the points from a drawing in the GROMA system using this function. Choose the function to add a point on the list in the GROMA system, press the button for graphic reading, and launch this function in the MicroStation system. Confirm the function by pressing the key <Data>. If there is a fence, then only the points from the fence will be transferred. Otherwise, the points from the entire list will be transferred.
This module serves to search points in the drawing using the numbers. Enter the prefix and point number, and the number of the projection in which the found point shall be displayed, and the size of the edge of the projection which defines the enlargement. If you choose some drawing function earlier in the MicroStation system or in this dialog window (e.g. line drawing), the required item will be automatically drawn over the searched points.
If there items, created on the points, are of the PointString type (if, during the import, the option Attach point information was on), you can turn on/off the dynamic display of the descriptions. The descriptions are only displayed on the screen during the dynamic display; they are not stored in the drawing. Therefore, if you manipulate the point, the description moves with the point. Also, if you delete a point, the description disappears. In addition, the descriptions have constant size regardless of the current scale of the cut in the window; they do not change during enlarging/diminishing. This dynamic display can be turned on/off by the command Settings->Display points or more precisely Settings->Hide points or on the command line by the command DISP ON or more precisely DISP OFF. The display parameters can be set using the command Settings->Point display. Here you can choose the text size in pixels and color. Also, you can turn on the displaying of the squares on the end points of the line items.