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1. and surrounding the 0 9 means save this piece of text so it can be put back into the target string The 1 in the replacement string means put the first segment found in the target string into the result string at this position TO 9 1 3 might be safer than 0 9 The former would only match numbers that had a least one and no more than three digits since interstate highways always have at least one digit and never have more than three The latter would match any instance of the string Interstate regardless whether it had a number following it or not Thus using the latter would change The Interstate System to The I system Example 3 Here is an example of changing all instances of an area measurement from the format 2X3 or something similar to the format 3 by 2 Search string 0 9 1 1 Xx 1 LO 91 1 Replacement string 2 by 1 Target string 100x200 or 100X200 or 100 x 200 or 100 X200 etc Result string 200 by 100 The Xx means match either an upper or lower case letter X The two instances of mean match any number of spaces on either side of the X The two instances of 0 9 1 will match and save the numbers on either side of the letter x while ensuring that each is composed of at least one digit The place
2. Select files by Extended File Specification Select Files By Date Range mm dd yyyy Latest Date mes The List menu List impart a The List menu lets you create save and re use different lists of files There are several applications that can make use of these lists of files So lists can be imported and exported between applications Tip Although there are some similarities between this menu and a standard File menu the differences are significant When you Import or Export from this menu the files do not remain open you are not editing a file and no files are updated Effectively these are one shot copy operations where an entire set of data is copied from the dialog box to a file or from a file to the dialog box There are two possible file formats each having different advantages and disadvantages Page 156 Global File Changer File list only text This format is a simple text file with each line in the file containing a fully qualified unambiguous file specification No other data is saved Definition fully qualified unambiguous file specification means including a drive letter a complete path starting from the root a filename and optionally an extension all with no wildcard characters An example of this would be c temp tempfile tmp Files of this format can be edited using any text editor Notepad is an example of
3. The Existing cell type option button allows you to determine which type of cells to replace Both replaces the shared and non shared cells Normal cell replaces type 2 non shared cells Shared cell replaces only shared cells New cell type New cell type The New cell type option button allows you to specify the type of the new cell that will replace the existing cell Same as existing cell makes the new cell to be the same type as the existing cell If the existing cell was a type 2 non shared cell the new cell should also be a type 2 cell If the existing cell was a shared type cell the new cell should also be a shared cell Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 59 Normal cell the new cell should always be made a type 2 cell regardless of the existing cell s type Shared cell the new cell should always be made a shared cell regardless of the existing cell s type lt Add gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the Existing cell name Existing cell type and New cell type to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a cell is to be replaced or rejected If a cell meets the criteria represented on any row in the list the cell will be accepted and replaced lt Remove gt The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list Tip To replace all existing normal cells with shared cells set the existing cell name to Set the Existing cell type t
4. 1 0 and 0 0 It will not match 123 123 or 001 O 9 1 1 1 0 91 1 0 9 1 match only mixed numbers without comma separators This will match 3 1 2 8 7 16 and 2271 17 22 It will not match 1 000 1 2 or 3 4 LO 9T Tt NYO LTS OS SIN LAPD 0 9 1 match degree minute second bearings Chapter 11 Wildcards and Regular Expressions Page 147 This will match 10 17 33 with spaces and 10 17 33 without spaces It will not match 10 17 or 17 33 f 0 9 1 match only whole numbers without comma separators that are directly preceded by a plus or minus sign This will match 1 1000 and 100000 It will not match 1 000 or 1000 xX 0O 9A Fa f 2 match hexadecimal numbers of two or more digits optionally preceded by an upper or lower case X This will match xFO xOOff 8010 abc and 0123456789aBcDeF It will not match F 0 or xyz Although might seem tempting to use 0 9 1 to match comma separated numbers it is actually not of much use because it will match any comma plus other things that are not valid numbers 88 1 2 35455 101 101 101 999999999 ce 40 yl Page 148 Global File Changer Chapter 12 Auxiliary Bu ilt in Commands
5. Ellipses Ellipses Ellipse parameters Filed Fill color Sii noa j CC c A o i Ellipses have three parameters that may be specified filled primary axis and secondary axis Filled The Filled option button is used to determine which type ellipses to select The Ignore option will allow either filled or not filled ellipses to be selected The Filled option will only allow filled ellipses to be selected The Not filled option will allow only non filled ellipses to be selected Fill color The Fill color option button allows you to define the fill colors of ellipses This option only makes sense when the Filled option is set to Filled Fill color l You may also select colors by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Select Colors dialog box that will allow you to select the desired colors graphically If any color numbers are already in the Fill colors data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Colors dialog box displays Tip The fill color of a closed element may be different from the element s color Primary axis For circular ellipses the primary axis will be equal to the radius of the ellipse For non circular ellipses MicroStation considers the first axis defined during placement of the ellipse as the primary axis Since it is not possible to visually tell which axis was defined first the larger of the two axes will be considered the primary axis P
6. Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either style 0 style 1 style 2 style 3 or style 5 You would enter into the Line styles data entry field the string 0 3 5 Ranges of line styles are separated by a dash You may include any number of line style numbers and ranges of line style numbers separated by commas The range of valid line style numbers is 0 to 7 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 31 an error message will be displayed In addition you may also include custom line styles in the list Custom line style names are also delimited by commas and may be included with line style numbers You may also select line styles by using the Styles pushbutton This will call up a new dialog box that will allow you to select the desired line styles graphically If any line style numbers or custom line style names are already in the Styles data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Line Styles dialog box displays V8 only V8 users can select bylevel from the Select Line Styles dialog box or type it in if desired Select line styles dialog box With this dialog box you can see the actual line styles as well as their associated numbers This dialog box uses the Windows style of selection This means you can make selections by clicking the mouse on a single item dragging the mouse over a range of items use the Control key with the mouse click or use the Shift ke
7. at least one digit following by two lower case letters the first of which must be either s n r or t and the second of which must be either t d or h This covers Ist 2nd 3rd and nth for the street numbers end of lt number gt segment a space start of third segment lt street gt a capital letter followed by at least one lower case letter possibly followed by a period This effectively covers any one word or abbreviation such as St Avenue Blvd Lane etc end of lt street gt segment a space Even this is not absolutely foolproof but it does narrow it down well enough to handle pretty much any reasonable combination Tips and tricks for wildcards and regular expressions The wildcard character can hand out some surprises if one is not careful The two things to remember are 1 it does not work alone it always applies to the character or pattern immediately preceding it and 2 it will match regardless of whether the Page 146 Global File Changer preceding pattern exists This is the only code that will actually match the absence of something Likewise the and codes can be tricky The thing to remember is that the entire pattern from the opening through the closing brackets represents just one character Combine those two tips with a space between the brackets
8. Page 158 Global File Changer File List Editing Section Remove Clear Number of files selected 0 This section of the dialog box is used to add and remove individual filenames from the list of selected files The Selected Files list This displays the files that have been selected for processing and the files in the current directory To remove a file from the list simply double click on it or highlight it and press the lt Del gt key or highlight it and click the Remove button or press lt Alt R gt on the keyboard To remove multiple files from the list at once select all the desired files and click the Remove button or press lt Alt R gt or lt Del gt on the keyboard To clear the entire list click the Clear button To add a file to the list double click the filename in the Files list To add multiple files to the list selected all the desired files from the Files list and click the Add button As you add and remove files from the selected list the Number of Files Selected field will keep track of the total number of tiles in the list Files in the selected list which are also in the available list will be displayed in gray in the available list Since these files are already in the selected list they cannot be added again Extended File List Specifications Select files by Extended File Specification Extended File Specification
9. Remove An extended file specification is based on a simple wildcard such as C DESIGNS DGN with added options and parameters that are defined below To add the specified files to the Selected Files list click the Add button or press lt Alt d gt on the keyboard To remove all files fitting the extended specification from the Selected Files list click the Remove button or press lt Alt m gt on the keyboard Chapter 16 File List Editor Page 159 s include sub directories s includes all matching files in all subdirectories of the one specified in the preceding file specification c dgnfiles dgn s fedate earliest date fel 1 1992 includes files with dates that fall in a range beginning on January 1 1992 fldate latest date f112 31 2002 includes files with dates that fall in a range ending on December 31 2002 fodate on date fo1 1 2002 includes only files modified on January It 2002 ft today ft includes only files with dates matching the current system date Note Since the forward slash is used to indicate an option and the backward slash is used to separate directory names neither can be used for separating month day and year in dates Use either periods 12 31 92 or dashes 12 31 92 instead of slashes Tip fldate and fedate may be combined to restrict file dates to a specific range as in
10. Replace Cells settings and reuse them in the future When running Global File Changer via MSBATCH BAT it wouldn t accept filespecs as command line parameters it would always use the last value saved in the Which design files do you want to process field of the main dialog box This has been handled so that now you can tell Global File Changer which design files to process from the command line If you specified multiple filespecs in the Which design files do you want to process field then brought up the Edit File List box by pressing the corresponding lt Select gt button Global File Changer used to complain about not being able to access what it considered was an invalid path Plus the Filter field was likely to have invalid data in it This has been handled Global File Changer is now compatible with Design File Manager Specifically when Design File Manager is running system administrator permission is required to run Global File Changer 3 1e 13 July 1999 The option to speed up processing by not refreshing the screen for each new drawing was interfering with regular use outside the program This only happened on some platforms Now the option only affects screen refreshes within Global File Changer Using wildcard search strings in the Custom Modify Text Parameters Set Text Replacement Parameters function would cause bad results some times Now all forms of input will work properly
11. The main Global File Changer dialog box is displayed after the Help dialog box when you start Global File Changer amp Global File Changer c program files axiom changersample changer rep ee The File menu The file menu contains only the Exit option This will close Global File Changer and works the same as the lt Exit gt button on the main dialog box The Options menu MicroStation V7 options Global File Changer Options Chapter 5 Running Global File Changer Page 33 MicroStation V8 options Global File Changer Detailed information about these functions can be found in the Options menu section The Custom menu c program file Your custom command could go here Call 727 442 7774 Detailed information about these functions can be found in the section called The Custom Menu The Selection menu Element selection The purpose of element selection is to identify those elements that you want to change with Global File Changer and protect other elements from being changed Page 34 Global File Changer If you do not use Element selection all elements will be selected by default This makes little difference if you are for example modifying symbology on a group of files It can be very useful however if you want to modify some elements but not others Choosing Selection Element selection will open Global File Ch
12. 3 1d 18 June 1999 Corrected a problem with normal wildcard search replace strings being treated as regular expressions in some situations This was affecting the Custom Modify Text Parameters Set Text Replacement Parameters function Additionally wildcard search strings are no longer case sensitive Regular expression strings remain case sensitive Corrected a problem in Custom Scale Cells when scaling around Center Now scaling around Center works as reliably as Center The user interface was overwriting user input with the previously entered string for the Which file contains field Now the user input is left alone With more than one search replacement string set in the list in Custom Modify Text Parameters Set Text Replacement Parameters window Removing one would access memory illegally This has been corrected Chapter 18 New Features and Fixes Page 167 The whole processing of selecting elements by named levels has been cleaned up Previously user input was only being accepted if the level name was in quotes now it will work with or without quotes The name wasn t being completely processed so selection by named levels wasn t successful Within Selection Element Selection Text Text Attributes leaving the justification field empty wasn t being handled properly Tabbing through the fields was enough to cause problems Now all contents are handled properly The title for the Copy Design
13. You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For cones you may only care about the top and bottom radius in which case you could leave the height parameter blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the height top radius and bottom radius to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a cone is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the cone meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the cone will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of cone parameters in memory and closes the Cones dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of cone parameters and closes the Cones dialog box Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 105 Curves Curves Cave parameters Length Varices Curves have two parameters that may be specified length and number of vertices Length The length of a curve is measured along the element from one endpoint to the other Length is based on master units You may enter either a decimal number such as 1 5 or working unit values like 1 50 0 Vertices Vertices is the number of vertices used to create the curve The Condition option buttons The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button
14. c dgnfiles dgn fe7 1 1997 f18 1 2002 s semicolon Multiple extended file specifications may be strung together by separating them with semicolons For example c dgnfiles dgn s d dgnfiles dgn s prefixed to a file specification indicates a list file A list file is a flat text file containing lines composed of file specifications as defined above That is each line can be a simple file specification a wildcard file specification a list file specification a single extended file specification or multiple file specifications of any of theses types separated by semicolons The contents of a list file might look something like this e reffiles border dgn reffiles refl dgn reffiles ref2 dgn Page 160 Global File Changer reffiles ref3 dgn reffiles ref4 dgn reffiles ref5 dgn c dgnfiles dgn s ft d dgnfiles cel s ft c filelists projectl 1lst c filelists project2 1st lt OK gt ox Use this pushbutton to save the list in the selected files listbox and exit the dialog box lt Cancel gt __Cancet Use this pushbutton to cancel any changes made to the list in the selected files listbox and exit the dialog box Select files by date range Select Files By Date Range mm dd yyyy Earliest Date Latest Date To add the files from the Files list to the Selected Files list which f
15. under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the curve properties set the length parameter and the associated condition option button and then set the vertices and its associated condition option button You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For curves you may only care about the length in which case you could leave the other parameter blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the length and number of vertices to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a curve is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the curve meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the curve will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list Global File Changer Page 106 The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of curve parameters in memory and closes the Curves dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of curve parameters and closes the Curves dialog box Dimension Dimensions have two main areas Dimension type and Dimension text Clicking either right arrow buttons will display a dialog box specific to the selected parameter If you select either Dimension type or Dimension text as a selection criterion you must also define the criteria specific to the selected parameter Dimension Types Dimension Types There are
16. 7 select the hands AXIOM SELECT ELEMENTS hands ilv HandsLevel change level active fill on active fillcolor yellow change fill xy 0 0 de select last selection set choose element xy 2147000 2147000 change symbology back to standard lv 1 co 0 wt 0 lc 0 turn on fill in view attributes for view 1 Sew a ya selview 1 20 21 2 ZS 24 25 26 27 28 2199 30 a 32 33 34 2o 36 Bul 38 29 40 change the hands 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 ele 82 53 54 55 56 SEA 58 5199 60 1 files were processed in this run Abbreviations used in this report include Message field Error field Prompt field Status field Command field You have now seen Global File Changer in action and have processed your first file Demo Files Aside from the clock quickstart files Global File Changer is delivered with some additional simple test files to help you get started These files include changer dgn changer cel demo key and demo sel Note You will need to edit the demo key file so that the path to the selection file demo sel1 is correct for your installation Global File Changer Using the sample key files Sample key files delivered with Global File Changer demonstrate how to handle a variety of commands You can use the sample key files as a basis to create your own key files bylevel key demo key fit key ggroup key level key li
17. Auxiliary commands The commands described in The Custom Menu Chapter all perform major functions that are useful all by themselves The auxiliary commands described in this chapter don t perform major functions by themselves Rather their purpose is to enhance or modify other commands or to control how Global File Changer does its job The auxiliary commands described in this chapter can be used in combination with regular MicroStation key in commands or with the built in Global File Changer commands described in The Custom Menu chapter The Axiom Delete command The Axiom Delete command is used to delete the specified file Command syntax The syntax of the command is Axiom Delete filenam Example Axiom Delete abc dat The First command The First command tells Global File Changer that the rest of the command line should be executed only while the first design file in a batch is being processed For all other files the rest of that command line is ignored For example let s say you will be processing five design files The command you will be running on each design file is the Axiom Report Revision command which writes one line to a special report file for each design file it processes You want to make sure that each time you run Global File Changer that you start with an empty report file To do this the key file Axiom Report Revision report rep would cause Glob
18. Character spacing Use this option to control the space between characters in text elements Note This parameter is a percentage of the text element s width as opposed to a fixed working unit value 20000 means the intercharacter spacing will be 20 of the text s width Use intercharacter spacing The character spacing defines the distance between the end of one character and the beginning of the next character This results in proportionally spaced text such as the text in this paragraph in which narrower characters take up less horizontal space Use fixedwidth spacing The character spacing defines the distance between the beginning of one character and the beginning of the next character This results in monospaced text such as that produced with a typewriter in which all characters take up the same horizontal space Remove character spacing parameter Use this option to remove the character spacing parameter from the text element Use this option to display text with a slant poor man s italics Valid values are 85 to 85 Use slant parameter This option forces the text elements to be displayed as slanted Remove slant parameter This option removes the slant parameter from text elements lt OK gt Press the lt OK gt pushbutton to save the parameters in the Extended Text Parameters dialog box and then dismiss the dialog box Tip If a fence is active when the Custom Modify Text command is execut
19. To simplify the process you may use individual font numbers or ranges of fonts For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either font 0 or font 2 You would enter into the Fonts data entry field the string 0 2 As you can see each font number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either font 0 font 1 font 2 or font 5 You would enter into the Fonts data entry field the string 0 2 5 Ranges of fonts are separated by a dash You may include any number of font numbers and ranges of font numbers separated by commas The range of valid weight numbers is 0 to 255 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 255 an error message will be displayed You may also select fonts by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Fonts dialog box that will allow you to select the desired fonts graphically If any font numbers are already in the Fonts data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Fonts dialog box displays Page 120 Global File Changer The Fonts dialog box The Fonts dialog box displays a list of all the currently available fonts This dialog box uses the Windows style selection mode This selection mode is described in the Select Colors dialog box section Justification You may set as many justifications in your selection criteria as you need For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn
20. if you have MDL installed the file tcb h contain detailed information about the TCB variables you can modify with Global File Changer The contents of file 127level key are shown below Note Whenever possible use MicroStation key in commands to change MicroStation settings Use the calculator to modify the TCB directly only when MicroStation does not provide key ins to make the changes you want User commands that process elements one by one Before MDL most MicroStation programming was done using user commands Although MDL is the preferred language for highly trained professional programmers many systems managers and experienced operators prefer to develop simple yet powerful labor saving tools in user command language Chapter 7 Tricks and techniques Page 47 There is one type of user command that is especially useful with Global File Changer A scanning user command analyzes each element in a design file one by one and makes changes to some or all of the elements it encounters File modele ucm is an example of a scanning user command Purchasers of Global File Changer are authorized to use modele ucm as a template for developing similar user commands that process elements in a design file one by one Just copy modele ucm to a filename of your choice and modify it so it makes the kind of changes you need done Combining Global File Changer with the SelectBy utility MicroStation includes a utility called SelectBy SelectBy
21. makes sense when the Type option is set to Closed Fill color The Fill color option allows you to define the fill colors of b spline curves This option only makes sense when the Type option is set to Closed and the Filled option is set to Filled Fill color es You may also select colors by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Select Colors dialog box that will allow you to select the desired colors graphically If any color numbers are already in the Fill colors data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Colors dialog box displays Tip The fill color of a closed element may be different from the element s color Length The length of a b spline curve is measured along the element from one endpoint to the other Length is based on master units You may enter either a decimal number such as 1 5 or working unit values like 1 50 0 Number of poles The number of poles is essentially the number of vertices used to create the b spline curve Page 98 Global File Changer The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the The Condition option button section under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the b spline curve properties set the length parameter and the associated condition option button and then set the number of poles and its associated condition option button You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For b spline curv
22. which MicroStation command you want to execute on each one RC newlib cel Without further human intervention all your design files will be changed just the way you want In actual practice the changes you ll make using Global File Changer will probably be much more complex than simply repeating a single command over a series of design files Whole series of MicroStation commands even user commands and MDL programs can quickly and easily be executed on design files all over your system Plus Global File Changer s built in commands give you the power to make all kinds of changes no command that comes with MicroStation could ever accomplish Unless your site has only one design file Global File Changer will probably pay for itself the first week you own it Global File Changer s element selection command takes off where MicroStation s SelectBy command leaves off MicroStation s SelectBy command is useful for selecting elements based on their color weight and other characteristics It is limited though in the types of element attributes it can use as its selection criteria The select command built in to Global File Changer has no such limitations Virtually any element attribute can be used to select elements in just one design file or in hundreds With Global File Changer s selection tool you will be able to define element specific properties For example with text you may specify fonts justifications text heights and
23. Changer Page 35 Using selection criteria in a key file Two new commands have been added to Global File Changer The first new command is AXIOM SELECT OPEN This command requires a file name as an argument such as AXIOM SELECT OPEN c roads sel This command opens the indicated file and loads all the selection criteria in the file into memory The second new command is AXIOM SELECT ELEMENTS This command requires a comma delimited list of description names such as axiom select open c roads sel axiom select elements streets stop signs signals delete This command will create a selection set based on the selection criteria found in the descriptions passed to the command Note See the Element Selection section of this guide for detailed information on creating and using selection sets Help Contents The Help Contents menu option opens the Global File Changer User s Guide Help About The Help About button displays a dialog box that shows the current version type of license and date that the program was built Which design files do you want to process Which design flea do you weet to proceae Seri pl eC dor There are several ways to tell Global File Changer which design files you want to modify Type in the name of a single design file Example sample dgn e Type in a wildcard filename Example x AGN e Type in a wildcard filename followed by s The s means to process subdirectories als
24. Click File SaveAs Save the selection set under a name that you will remember At this point the selection set is saved and also loaded and good to go Close the Element Selection dialog box Page 90 Global File Changer Element Selection Main Dialog Box There are several things that are common to most element types These include color weight line style level database linkages user data graphic group numbers properties and classes We will take each one in turn and explain how to set them Element Selection x File Help Element types Colors Weights Line styles Are A Spli gt g apin aia Colors Weights Styles B Spline Surface Cell Pe User data linkages Database linkages Levels p Complex Shape User data Database Complex Strin gt Selection region x1 y1 21 x2y2 22 Levels EE Graphic groups Dimension Properties Classes Ellipse Primary Line p Pattern component Line String a Construction s Selection criteria aa Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed Raster d DEFAULT Add Shape i Update Shared Cell A pe Solid S Remove Surface A Apply Text A Text Node gt ma OK Cancel The File menu Save Save as Exit p dev compare obj 95w release finelines sel p dev compare obj 95w release complex sel p
25. Global File Changer s built in commands can be used in batch mode The MicroStation message fields the contents of which Global File Changer usually writes to its report file do not exist when MicroStation is running in batch mode Therefore the Global File Changer report file contains far less useful information when Global File Changer is run in batch mode It s much less convenient to run Global File Changer in batch mode than in graphics mode When you should use batch mode The only time we recommend running Global File Changer in batch mode is when you have all of the following 1 You have a server that contains a large number of design files and it would be inconvenient to move them to a graphics workstation for processing Your server is not accessible via NFS Network File System which allows you access to disks on other computer systems as if they were your local disk drive Your server has MicroStation loaded on it despite having no graphics terminal Chapter 13 Batch Mode Page 151 How to Run Global File Changer in Batch Mode To run Global File Changer in batch mode follow these steps 1 Run Global File Changer in graphics mode on a workstation that has a graphics screen Set up the three fields on Global File Changer s main screen exactly how you want them to run in batch mode Tell Global File Changer which design filename wildcard you want to run on the name of your key file and the name of
26. Save settings on exit option is activated Global File Changer saves the settings in the currently active settings file Options Load a settings file The Load a settings file option brings up a standard MicroStation open file dialog box from which you can specify a settings file to load This operates much like Save current settings Page 46 Global File Changer Chapter 7 Tricks and te chniques Global File Changer s power is limited only by your imagination As we ve said before the power of Global File Changer is limited only by your imagination The purpose of this section is to describe a few of the tricks and techniques you can use to make Global File Changer do all the things you need it to do Combining Global File Changer with the MicroStation Calculator Global File Changer combined with the MicroStation calculator forms a powerful tool for making bulk changes to design files A user with appropriately advanced skills can directly modify the TCB and hence the type 9 and type 66 elements of any set of design files Definition TCB stands for Terminal Control Block The TCB is an area of memory in which MicroStation stores settings The active color and active level are two examples of the hundreds of settings stored in the TCB Sample files originl key and 127level key contain examples of using the MicroStation calculator with Global File Changer Your MicroStation Customization Guide and
27. Selection Sled selection ciberia Use this pulldown menu to call up the Element Selection dialog box for the modify text function Refer to the Chapter for Element Selection for a description of this dialog box Warning When you are first setting up to modify selected text with Global File Changer it asks you to supply a name for the sel file containing the selection set the txt file containing the text modification parameters and the key file The key file contains the selection commands as well as the Modify text commands and is only created when you combine text modification parameters with a selection set If you later go back into the Modify Text dialog boxes it won t know that you want to use a Selection set and will wipe out the keyin file you previously specified You must reload the sel file or create a new one before closing the main Modify text dialog box You have to keep an eye on this field Help Help on modity text Help on imi paramebers Help on extended text parameters Use this menu to get online help tips for the various dialog boxes Scale Scale csie MT Scale 1 000000 Use this option to set a new scale for selected text and textnodes X Scale Use this to scale text width Note This option and the Text Width option on the Text Parameters dialog box cannot be selected at the same time Y Scale Use this to scale text height Note This opt
28. The Filled option button is used to determine which type of closed complex shapes to select The Ignore option will allow either filled or not filled complex shapes to be selected The Filled option will only allow filled complex shapes to be selected The Not filled option will allow only non filled complex shapes to be selected Fill color option button The Fill color option button allows you to define the fill colors of complex shapes This option only makes sense when the Filled option is set to Filled You may also select colors by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Select Colors dialog box that will allow you to select the desired colors graphically If any color numbers are already in the Fill colors data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Colors dialog box displays Tip The fill color of a closed element may be different from the element s color Perimeter The perimeter is the distance measured along the entire element Page 102 Global File Changer The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the complex shape properties set the filled option button to the desired option Ignore will normally be the desired mode and set the perimeter parameter with its associated condition option button You may leave perimeter parameter blank if it does not app
29. a simple text editor The image below shows an example of a list saved with the Export option that can later re opened with the Import option cary flist Ist Notepad File Edit Search Help Send C WIN3S2APP ustation dgn civil design dgn C WINS2APP ustation dgn civil section dgn C WINS2APP ustation dgn civil survey dgn This format is handy for using as a basis for an listfile see below Or even for generating a list of files for any application that uses a list of files for input The default extension for this format is Ist which stands for list All data binary In this format all the important data displayed in the dialog box is saved This includes not only the selected files list but the earliest and latest date fields and the Extended File Specification string The data is saved in a specific format which cannot be safely modified by any program other than the File List Editor dialog box The default extension for this format is efl which stands for Edited File List List Import import Use this option to restore a list of files from a saved file All data binary Select this option to restore the complete state of the dialog box from a file If the file selected is not of the proper format no changes will be made to the state of the dialog box File list only text Select this option if you want only the list of files to be restored When this option
30. be right in the center of the elements in your design file The keyin command syntax has no parameters Just enter Axiom Center Global Origin Warning This command cannot be undone it is recommended to use the Automatic backup option and revert to backup to restore original settings if necessary Page 56 Global File Changer Custom Replace cells Replace Cells Pea C WIN324PP ustation wemod default cell SSAMPLE 2 CEL eE e 1 p Both __Y _Same as existing cel Y Add Remove i ji The Custom Replace cells command replaces cells in a design file The dialog box helps you generate this command Note The Custom Replace cells command retains any attribute linkages attached to the original cell The File pulldown menu Use the File pulldown menu to save and retrieve files that contain sets of cell replacement parameters File Open Use this to open an existing parameter file The parameters in the parameter file will be used to populate the Replace Cells dialog boxes File Save Use this option to save the current dialog box settings to a parameter file If a file has previously been opened with the Open option the current parameters will be Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 57 written to that file If no file has been previously opened you will be prompted for the parameter file name File Save as Use this option to save the current
31. box will prompt you for the new file name File Save as The save as displays a Save as dialog box that will prompt you for the new file name File Exit The exit option closes the Axiom Element Selection dialog box The Help box Hel pon 8 lam emt B electi rk This option will display a dialog box that will give you some online help Recently used select files list At the bottom of the File menu you will see a list of recently used selection sets A single click on the name of any set will cause it to load Page 92 Global File Changer Element types Your first step in Axiom Element Selection will be to select the elements you want to process exclusive of other elements These element type selections are described in detail in the next section Symbology options After selecting the element type your next step will be to select the associated symbology These options are described in detail in the Element Selection Symbology Options section of this chapter Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 93 Selection criteria When you have finished specifying element types and all parameters the selection must be added to the list and saved After selecting your symbology type in a meaningful name such as the element name in the Selection Criteria dialog box on the first line under Description Note Each selection will be overwritten if you don t select ADD after entering the elemen
32. convenience only No MicroStation command is executed for comment lines Chapter 14 The Report File Page 153 5 The second line of the key in file In the example above this is rc This command tells MicroStation to display the name of the current cell library Notice that before this run of Global File Changer design files test 1 dgn and test2 dgn had no cell libraries attached but test 3 dgn had obsolete cel attached as its cell library 6 Each additional line of the key in file After each line of the key in file is printed Global File Changer prints out any changes MicroStation made to its message fields as a result of Global File Changer executing that line Page 154 Global File Changer Chapter 15 Helpful Hints Keeping your files safe Always test a new key in command file on design files in a scratch directory before trying it out on real live design files Make the first command in each of your key in files a backup command Global File Changer will run slower but you ll have a backup copy of your files in case you made an error in creating your key in file Alternatively set Automatic backup in the Options menu The sample user commands and key in files are not formally part of the Global File Changer product You should test these files thoroughly before relying on them If you write a key in file or a user command that effectively demonstrates a valuable use of Global File Changer we be happy to
33. defined by one or more numbers separated by a slash character MicroStation supports most commonly used fractions as stackfractions When stackfractions are used the entire fraction is replaced with a single character which displays as the defined fraction Example The stacked fraction representation of 1 2 is 2 Use this option to control the use of stackfractions Use stackfractions Any fraction within a text element that can be converted to single character will be The effect is the same as placing the text element in the design file with the stackfractions preference turned on Remove stackfractions Expands any single character fractions to be expanded to individual characters The effect is the same as placing the text element in the design file with the stackfractions preference turned off Text width Use this option to control text width Note This option and the X Scale option on the Modify Text dialog box cannot both be selected at the same time Text height Use this option to control text height Page 76 Global File Changer Note This option and the Y Scale option on the Modify Text dialog box cannot both be selected at the same time Line spacing Use this option to control the line spacing parameter on textnodes Line length Use this option to control the line length parameter on textnodes lt Match gt Use this option to retrieve text and or textnode parameters from an existing te
34. dev compare obj 95w release ellipseonly sel The File pulldown menu includes four options Open Save Save as and Exit The most recently used selection set names display below these options The Currently selected set name appears on the title bar Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 91 Element Selection p idevicomparelobj 95wireleaselfinelines B File Open The open option displays a standard file open dialog box that will allow you to select a previously saved file The opened file must have been created with the either the Save or Save as menu options Once a valid file has been selected the Descriptions list will be populated with all the descriptions found in the file When a file is successfully opened the file name will be added to the bottom of the File pulldown menu Selecting the file name will automatically open the file Up to ten file names will be saved to the end of the File pulldown menu Using variable names in File Open The axiom select open command supports use of MicroStation configuration variables in the form of varname So if var is set to a path with a trailing slash you can use axiom select open var file key or if var is set to a full filespec you can use axiom selection open var File Save The save option lets you save a selection set that was previously opened with the open pulldown menu option If there is no currently opened file a Save as dialog
35. indicates that you want the new cell to always be a type 2 cell regardless of the existing cell s type Shared cell indicates that you want the new cell to always be a shared cell regardless of the existing cell s type lt Add gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the Existing cell name Existing cell type the New cell name and New cell type to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a cell is to be replaced or rejected If a cell meets the criteria represented on any row in the list the cell will be accepted and replaced lt Remove gt The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 61 lt OK gt The lt OK gt pushbutton will prompt you for the name of a file to save the Replace Cells parameters in When the Custom Replace cells command is run this file will be used to get the replacement parameters lt Cancel gt The lt Cancel gt pushbutton closes the Replace Cells dialog box and disregards the changes you have made Keyin command syntax You can run this function with the MicroStation keyin command Axiom Replace Cells parameter_file Example Axiom Replace Cells c repcell txt Custom Replace textnodes in cells based on color Replace Textnodes in Cells Which fila contains the raw adnoda toot Which calls should we process This command was written for a specific custome
36. is set to Filled Fill color al You may also select colors by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Select Colors dialog box which will allow you to select the desired colors graphically If any color numbers are already in the Fill colors data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Colors dialog box displays Tip The fill color of a closed element may be different from the element s color Perimeter The perimeter is the distance measured along the entire element Vertices Vertices means the number of vertices used to create the shape The number of vertices for a shape may be a little misleading For example MicroStation considers a square Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 117 shape to have 5 vertices not 4 You can see this if you use the Analyze command on a shape element You will notice that the first and last vertex is always the same The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the shape properties set the filled option button to the desired option Ignore will normally be the desired mode set the perimeter parameter with its associated condition option button and set the number of vertices with its associated condition option button You may leave any parameter blank if it does not apply For shapes you may only care about the
37. is used nothing in the dialog box changes except the selected files list Chapter 16 File List Editor Page 157 Note This option will attempt to import any file Everything from the beginning of the file up to the point where the file no longer contains text will be imported and displayed in the selected files list List Export Full data birar Export Use this option to save a list of files to a file All data binary Select this option to save the complete state of the dialog box File list only text Select this option to save just the list of files Navigation Section Path D AUSTNS sewi Drive D v Filter e This section of the dialog box works just like the File Open dialog box in MicroStation and other Windows programs You can select a drive by choosing from the available drives on the Drive option button or by entering the drive in the Filter field You can move up or down the directory tree structure by double clicking on one of the directory names or by typing in any valid directory path in the Filter field You can display specific file types in the Files list by specifying wildcards in the Filter field The Filter field will recognize any valid combination of device directory and or filename including UNC specifiers As you make changes to any of these fields the other fields and lists will be automatically updated
38. listbox r Selection criteria Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed Add HANDS Update Remove Apply Now save all this to a file by selecting Save as from the File menu Chapter 4 Quick Start Page 27 ZS Element Selection EA Help Open Save Exit p dev changer obj S5w release cellans1 38 sel and use the standard MicroStation dialog box to save it as clock sel in the CHANGER SAMPLE directory Now click the lt OK gt button to close the Element Selection dialog box OK Select a report file What should we call the output report file j c Program Files 4xiom V8 changer sample changer rep You may type in any valid filespec for the report file or use the lt Select gt button to open up a standard MicroStation Open File dialog box From that box you can navigate to a specific directory and have the report file written to that directory Process clock dgn If any one of the three fields on the main dialog box does not contain valid data the start button will be disabled and the reason will be displayed in the area above the buttons near the bottom of the dialog box Although it is sometimes faster to manually enter filenames using the dialog boxes for selecting files can circumvent all of these problems Next press lt Start gt Start Review the results Processing should only take a couple of seconds You should see the vario
39. lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the disjoint and number of vertices to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a point string is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the point string meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the point string will be accepted and added to the selection set Point Strings The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of point string parameters in memory and closes the Point Strings dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of point string parameters and closes the Point Strings dialog box Raster There are no additional parameters for raster elements Page 116 Global File Changer Shapes Shapes Shape parameters Filled Fill color Hele moe ill O H bea Emm Shapes have three parameters that may be specified filled perimeter and number of vertices Filled The Filled option button is used to determine which type shapes to select The Ignore option will allow either filled or not filled shapes to be selected The Filled option will only allow filled shapes to be selected The Not filled option will allow only non filled shapes to be selected Fill color The Fill color option button allows you to define the fill colors of shapes This option only makes sense when the Filled option
40. margin top RMC right margin center RMB right margin bottom RT right top RC right center RB right bottom Linespace 0 5 0 Page 85 This parameter defines the linespacing value for textnodes It is specified in working units Linelength Linelength 255 This parameter defines the maximum number of characters any text element in a textnode may contain If Modify Text encounters any textnodes with text elements that are longer than the Linelength parameter the text element will be split into as much separate text elements as needed to meet the Linelength parameter Enter Data Fields in text elements that had to be split will be removed Page 86 Global File Changer Fractions Fractions are defined by one or more numbers separated by a slash character MicroStation supports most commonly used fractions as stackfractions When stackfractions are used the entire fraction is replaced with a single character which displays as the defined fraction Example The stacked fraction representation of 1 2 is 2 Fractions Yes Any fractions in the modified text elements will be forced to stackfractions Fractions No Any fraction in the modified text elements will be expanded to the individual characters that make up the fraction Case Upper All the text will be forced to upper case Lower All text will be forced to lower case Capitalization All Words The entire text element will first be for
41. may use up to 140 words All the data after the first word is user defined Each word can have a numeric value in the range of 0 to 65535 You may define multiple values separated by commas Ranges of values are also allowed Page 132 Global File Changer Levels The level picker for MicroStation V7 versions differs from the V8 level picker Both are described below level picker Lewala as You may set as many levels in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual level numbers or ranges of levels For example let s say you want to process elements which are drawn on level 1 or level 23 You would enter into the Levels data entry field the string 1 23 As you can see each level number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn on level 1 level 2 level 3 or level 5 You would enter into the Levels data entry field the string 1 3 5 Ranges of levels are separated by a dash You may include any number of level numbers and ranges of level numbers separated by commas The range of valid level numbers is 1 to 63 If you enter a number outside the range of 1 to 63 an error message will be displayed You may also select levels by using the Levels pushbutton This will call up a new dialog box that will allow you to select the desired levels graphically If any level numbers are already in the Levels data entry field they will automatically be selecte
42. model only option Global File Changer will process only the active model in each selected file Note The active model is a setting that can be saved This setting should be saved when you either do a File gt Save Settings or if you have Save Settings on Exit set in your Workspace Preferences Workspace gt Preference gt Operation gt Save Settings on Exit All models When you select All models Global File Changer will process all models in all selected design files For example if you select All models and select sample dgn for processing then all models in sample dgn will be processed If you select dgn then all models will be processed in all files matching dgn All models except sheets Select All models except sheets to skip sheet models during processing Page 44 Global File Changer Note if you have any other requirements for the selection of models to be processed by Global File Changer please let us know Options Save settings on exit Olea ne Automatic backup balore each fila Automatic filadesign ater aach file P Help lewe I A I Update screen dunmng processing Seve pethinegys on ety When Save settings on exit is Yes all of the Global File Changer settings these options the fields in the dialog boxes the selected files etc are all stored in the settings file each time you shut the application down With this option set to
43. not to give these two files the same name Keyin command syntax The syntax of this command is Axiom Report on Textnodes in Cells report_file cellname_wildcard Page 64 Global File Changer Example Axiom Report on Textnodes in Cells textnode rep abc xYyZ This command would process cells whose names begin with ABC or end with XYZ The first text element in each textnode within such cells would be listed on its own line Custom Report revision letter of design file V7 only Revision Report Whe should wa call ha reisan report fila a r rmasion rap This command only runs is MSBATCH mode and was written for a specific customer It is included with Global File Changer because 1 you may find it useful as written or 2 we may be able to modify it to fit your particular needs How we find revision letters A revision letter is a letter that indicates the version of a design file This command scans each design file for revision cells and revision text elements that contain a revision letter A revision cell is a non shared type 2 cell whose name begins with REV whose fourth character is a digit whose last character is the letter L and which contains a text element which consists of a single character Enter Data Field For example the cell REV3L could be a revision cell The cell REV could also be a revision cell The revision letter is extracted from the first text element in a
44. of these by clicking the lt OK gt button or you can make some other selection with Ctrl click Page 16 Global File Changer Axiom Product Installation CellR andomizer Design File Manager System Installation DanCompare Duplicate Element Remover Note You can install all of the products listed For the ones not licensed you can obtain a demonstration license from your Axiom MicroStation Consultant Tip A readme txt file on the CD contains the answers to frequently asked questions about installation 5 If you have selected Design File Manager as one of your products to install you will be asked to select an Axiom Network Directory Axiom Network Directory Tip If you are installing Design File Manager for demonstration purposes on a local drive you can create any sample directory path Chapter 2 Installation Page 17 Network installation from the server If you want to install Axiom products on a network you can copy the CD onto a server drive and let each user install from the server Use the instructions for installing from CD but use the path to the directory on the server rather than your CD drive Environment variable A MicroStation environment variable MS_NOEOF_MSGFILE will be installed automatically When MicroStation encounters a corrupt design file a message will be displayed MicroStation cannot open this damaged file Open another file then use FileFixer to open and repair this dama
45. part of a textnode are not processed Note If the textnode and the first line of text have different colors the color to match is the text color Command syntax The syntax of this command is Axiom Replace Textnodes in Cells ASCII_input_file cellname_wildcard Example Axiom Replace Textnodes in Cells newtext dat abc xyz This command would process cells whose names begin with ABC or end with XYZ Any textnode within such cells whose color matches the color number specified on one of the lines of ASCII input file newt ext dat will be replaced by the text that follows the matching color number Let s say newtext dat the ASCII input file specified in the above example contains the following c design test dgn ABC12 34 This is the new text for color 34 66 This is the new text for color 66 Let s say cell ABC12 in the file c design test dgn contains a textnode of color 66 that says This transformer weighs one hundred pounds After processing cell ABC12 would be changed so that the textnode that previously read This transformer weighs one hundred pounds would now read This is the new text for color 66 Cells not matching the design file name cell name or cell wild card would not be changed Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 63 Custom Report on textnodes in cells Report Textnodes in Cells het should we call the ut report hile hich calle
46. precede a hexadecimal character representation in a search string for example use F8 for the degree symbol The program will search for these strings and convert them before applying wildcard or regular expression logic Examples Example 1 This is a very simple straight substitution This same thing can be done using Wildcard Substitution Search string Ave Replacement string Avenue Target string 123 4th Ave Result string 123 4th Avenue The use of indicates that the period should be taken literally as opposed to matching any single character Without the backslash as Ave it would match Ave Chapter 11 Wildcards and Regular Expressions Page 143 Maria and change it to AvenueMaria Note that the space between Ave and Maria is matched by the period and is therefore replaced along with the Ave Example 2 Here is an example of changing all instances of Interstate n to In where the trailing n is a number Search string Interstate 0 9 Replacement string I 1 space between the I and the Target string Interstate 95 or Interstate95 or Interstate95 Result string 7 95 The with a space character between the brackets means match any zero or more spaces The 0 9 means match any sequence of zero or more digits The
47. such as Notepad to do this Start your text editor and open clock key which is also found in the CHANGER SAMPLE directory The second line in the file looks something like this AXIOM SELECT OPEN c program files axiom V8 changer sample clock sel Change the file path to point to your changer sample clock sel file and save the file If you look over the contents of the file you will notice it is composed of mostly standard MicroStation key in commands with a few specialized AXIOM commands such as AXIOM SELECT OPEN at various points The specialized AXIOM key ins will be described in full later in this document Start Global File Changer Load Global File Changer by selecting it from the Axiom pull down menu in MicroStation Chapter 4 Quick Start Page 23 amp Global File Changer c program files axiom changer sample clock dgn c program files axiom changerssample clock key The Which design files do you want to process field will contain the name of the active file when you loaded Global File Changer If clock dgn is not the active file Select it by clicking the lt Select gt button This will bring up the Axiom Edit File List dialog box Edit File List C Program Files Axiom 8 changer sample clack dgn C Program Files Axiom V8 changerssamplesclock dgn Select the drive and directory where Global File Changer sample files were installed Cli
48. text settings to a parameter file with a different name than the one you originally opened Which cell library should we use This option is used to define which cell library to use when replacing cells If a cell library is already attached to the current design file this field will be automatically populated with the attached cell library s name You may key in a cell library including the full path or you may use the lt Select gt pushbutton to graphically select a cell library Replacement mode Relative If the Replacement Mode is Absolute the cell placement will be as it is stored in the cell library If the Replacement Mode is Relative the cell placement will be relative to the lowest level of that cell that you will be replacing Copy enter data fields Copy enter data fields gt Skip shared cells Jv Modify shared cells The replace cell function will let you update Enter Data Fields in the new cell with the same data that was in the old cell This enables you to change cell format yet preserve your data EDFs will be replaced in sequence If the replacing cell EDF is smaller than the original cell data will be truncated If the replacing cell is larger blanks will be added Ideally both cells will have the same sequence of EDFs of approximately the same size You must select this option by putting a check in the associated box The Copy enter data fields function i
49. textnodes in type 2 cells will be processed Element type Element Both Both text and textnodes will be processed Element Text Only text elements not contained within textnodes will be processed Element Node Only textnodes and text contained within textnodes will be processed Modify about Modify Insertion Text elements will be modified about the insertion justification point This is the point that was used to place the element Modify Center Text elements will be modified about the center of the element Modify Lowerleft Text elements will be modified about the lower left corner of the element This point is the same as the insertion point when the text element is placed with a lower left justification Page 84 Global File Changer Note Textnodes are always modified about the textnode origin Character space Inter Character 0 1000000 The distance from the right side of one character to the left side of the next will be character width times the specified value Fixed Character 0 2000000 The distance from the left side of one character to the left side of the next will be the character width times the specified value Character Space No Remove character spacing from the text element Note 0 100000 means 10 of character width Symbology Font Color forces the element to the defined color number Weight forces the element to the defined weight number Style forces the element to the d
50. that it is highlighted Click inside the Selection criteria Description field where you see the word DEFAULT Type in LINES and click the lt Add gt button Page 26 Global File Changer Element Selection il Fz File Help Element types Colors Weights Line styles Are P po Colors Weights Styles Cell User data linkages Database linkages Levels Complex oes User data Database so Selection region 1 y1 21 42 y2 22 Levels oe Graphic groups _ Dimension Properties Classes Ellipse p Primary ai Pattern component Line String iNew Construction x Multiline S Point String oe ee descriptions will be ORed Raster ins SSCS Add Shope Shared Cell Solid Surface b Text p Text Node Clear All OK Cancel Now do the above three steps for each of the other element types in the file Click the Text button so it highlights click inside the Selection Criteria Description field type in NUMBERS and click the lt Add gt button Click the Ellipse button so it highlights click inside the Selection Criteria Description field type in FACE and click the lt Add gt button Click the Shape button so it highlights click inside the Selection Criteria Description field type in HANDS and click the lt Add gt button You should now have four items in the Selection Criteria
51. the MicroStation environment variable of CHANGER_RSC Then to make things even better the ability to load and save Settings to a user selectable file was added Global File Changer was trimming the extra white spaces from each line of a key in file as it processed it this action was interfering with commands that rely on extra spaces such as CT so the white space trimming was disabled Page 168 Global File Changer The standard Axiom routine for displaying a report file to a window was put into use making Global File Changer overall operation simpler Enhancements have been made to the Axiom File List Entry and Editing modules These updated routines were incorporated in Global File Changer giving you a smoother more flexible and more powerful interface The Axiom Element Selector has been worked over making it more intuitive to use The standard Axiom About dialog box was hooked into Global File Changer giving users the ability to easily get information about the version of their copy of Global File Changer If in processing a list of files Global File Changer encounters a file that can not be opened or isn t a proper design file a message to that affect will be entered in the report file An error was found and fixed regarding the formatting of the CPUID in a message you might get if running an old and invalid license 3 0i 3 November 1998 Due to changes in only distantly related parts of a library module The Cop
52. widths and the actual text string Sample uses of Global File Changer Global File Changer can be used to make thousands of different types of changes Any command you can type at the MicroStation command prompt can be repeated on any number of design files Any non interactive user command can be repeated on any set of design files The ways Global File Changer can help you are limited only by your imagination Following is a list of just a few of the thousands of things you could do with Global File Changer You may never use Global File Changer to do any of these things Most of the things you will use Global File Changer for will be things you think of in the future as the need arises The important thing to remember about Global File Changer is that it will do what you want it to Any change that you can accomplish with a series of MicroStation key ins on a single file Global File Changer can accomplish on all your design files Any change you can accomplish with a user command on one design file Global File Changer can accomplish on all your design files That said here are some examples of what Global File Changer can do Chapter 1 Introduction Page 13 Scale a whole series of design files Change the master units of a series of design files from feet to meters Change the global origin of a series of design files Attach a different cell library to a series of design files Lock all the elements in a set of design files s
53. with either lower left or upper left justification You would enter into the Justification data entry field the string LB LT As you can see each justification is separated by comma You may include any number justifications separated by commas There are 15 valid justifications RMT right margin top RMC right margin center RMB right margin bottom LT left top LC left center LB left bottom CT center top CC center center CB center bottom RT right top RC right center RB right bottom RMT right margin top RMC right margin center RMB right margin bottom You may also select justifications by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Justifications dialog box that will allow you to select the desired justifications graphically If any justifications are already in the Justification data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Justifications dialog box displays The Justifications dialog box The Justifications dialog box displays a list of all valid justifications This dialog box uses the Windows style selection mode This selection mode is described in the Select Colors dialog box section Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 121 Height and Width Height and width represent the text element s size in master units The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Search String The Sear
54. your report file Note You ll be able to override the design filename wildcard and the name of the key file on the operating system command line when you start Global File Changer in batch mode Execute the Options Save current settings command Your current settings are saved in the resource file specified Copy your changer ma file to the server that lacks graphics capabilities Put changer ma in the main mdl applications directory such as c Bentley Program MicroStation mdlapps Run MicroStation in batch mode The syntax of the command you enter on one line at the DOS command prompt is msbatch changer ma k key_file design_file_wildcard s Note that k must precede the key filename and that there must be a space between the k and the filename Example usr ip32 mstation msbatch sh changer ma k fit key usr maps dgn You may need to specify the full path of some of the files Use s after the filename wildcard if you want to process files in subdirectories Page 152 Global File Changer Chapter 14 The Report F ile Overview Global File Changer generates a report as it works so that you can tell what changes it made and any problems it encountered while doing its job If it wasn t for this report you wouldn t know whether Global File Changer made all the changes you requested Following is a sample Global File Changer report Global File Changer 8 0a BOAO EI COOLS h
55. 2 REMOVE 200 AND CIRC 19 MAY 97 DSD Custom Scale cells Scale Cells x Scale Y Scale 1 000000 Z Scale 1 000000 Scaling operation _ Multiply Current v Scale About _Origin zj Which cells do you wish to scale ooo OK Cancel Use this dialog box to scales cells Each cell can be scaled about its origin insertion point or its center multiplying its current scale or inserting new values for a new size Selecting which cells to scale The Scale Cell dialog box allows you to specify which cells you want to scale It allows you to use a series of wildcards to select cells The character means match any string of characters The character means match any single character Following are some examples Match any cell B Match any cell that starts with the letter B F Match any cell that ends with the letter F H E Match any cell that starts with H and ends with E H E Match any 3 letter cell that starts with H and ends with E A Any cell that starts with A or that has exactly 2 characters cell 1lis Read names from file cel1 1is which has 1 cell per line If a fence is active when the command is executed only cells within the fence that match the wildcard will be processed If a selection set is active when the command is executed only selected cells that match the wildcard will be processed If both a fence and a selection set are active when the command is executed the f
56. 22 different dimension types Each type corresponds to the MicroStation command used to place the dimension element You may use this dialog box to select which dimension type to include in the selection criteria The Dimension Types dialog box uses the same selection mode as the Select Colors dialog box Refer to the Select Colors dialog box for an explanation on making selections graphically Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 107 Dimension Text Dimension Text Dimension text parameters Colors Wrights Fonts Width Height da Ce The Dimension Text dialog box will allow you to set specific parameters about the dimension text These include color weight font text width and text height l Colors You may set as many colors in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual color numbers or ranges of colors For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either color 1 color 7 or color 9 You would enter into the Colors data entry field the string 1 7 9 As you can see each color number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either color 1 color 2 color 3 color 8 or color 10 You would enter into the Colors data entry field the string 1 3 8 10 Ranges of colors are separated by a dash You may include any number of color numbers and ranges of color numbers separated by commas The range of val
57. 3 3a release for MicroStation 95 SE J The custom function to copy level symbology was failing on some donor files This was fixed The custom tool to merge files was failing on some large files This was fixed The custom tool to copy dimension settings was sometimes failing This was fixed A difficulty with selecting text nodes by font was handled 8 0b 13 May 2002 This enhancement to the MicroStation Version 8 Global File Changer focuses on bylevel and level selection improvements We added a new V8 level picker to the Element Selection dialog box to allow easy selection based on levels that exist in the active design file Current level selection by number and number range is still supported We activated a color picker including a bylevel selection to Element Selection as well as bylevel selections for style and weight The Modify text custom tool now accepts a 1 for bylevel color selection and contains bylevel choices for line style and weight 8 0a 24 April 2002 Global File Changer version 8 0a works with MicroStation version 8 3 3a 13 March 2002 Global File Changer now has the ability to convert a single text element into a text node when doing text replacement This is done by using n newline in the Replacement string field of the Replacement Strings dialog box The Global File Changer User s Guide is now available in Windows Help format It is accessible via Hel
58. Changer Just call 727 442 7774 and tell us what feature you d like added High priority changes can frequently be implemented in just days Owning Global File Changer is like having a brilliant yet low priced MDL programmer on your staff at all times waiting to satisfy your custom programming needs Except instead of paying him year round you only pay for the few days each year when you really need him Technical note Despite its conceptual simplicity and ease of use Global File Changer has been a very time consuming program to develop The primary reason is that the program is a hybrid of two different programming techniques Event driven programming is a type of programming wherein the program responds to various user actions events which can occur in any sequence Sequencing is a type of programming wherein the program executes instructions one after the other always in the same order Most MDL programs use event driven techniques The MDL routines that support event driven programming are very well tested and debugged MDL programming using sequencing is less common and moderately less well tested Hybrid programs those that use both techniques are rare Many MDL functions that work properly when only one of these techniques is used fail often in highly unexpected and hard to debug ways when used in a hybrid program like Global File Changer At this point in time Global File Changer has been thoroughly tested
59. Ere reese bent Capitehre frei word ony Cepitalze All Svionds Use this option to force the text to either all uppercase or all lowercase or to control the case of the first letter of each word Uppercase Force the text to all uppercase Lowercase Force the text to all lowercase Capitalize first word only Capitalize the first letter of the first word of the text element Force all other text to lowercase Capitalize all words Capitalize the first letter of each word of the text element Force all other text to lowercase Note Each text element in a textnode is considered to be a separate string Vertical text Note This option and the Underline Spacing option cannot be selected at the same time Use vertical text Force text to display vertically Remove vertical text parameter Remove the vertical text attribute from text elements to force the text to display horizontally Underline spacing Use this option to control the underline spacing Page 78 Global File Changer Note This parameter is a percentage of the text element s height as opposed to a fixed working unit value 20 means the underline character will be 20 of the text s height below the baseline Note This option and the Vertical Text option cannot be selected at the same time Use underline parameter Force text elements to display as underlined text Remove underline parameters Remove the underline parameter from the text elements
60. File Changer contains additional built in commands that make changes that cannot be made using MicroStation alone For example the Copy level symbology command can copy the level symbology settings from one design file to all the design files you specify Any change you can make with a user command or a series of MicroStation key in commands to a single design file Global File Changer can make on hundreds of design files If however you find that making a particular change is beyond your MicroStation skills phone us at 1 727 442 7774 and for a small additional fee usually we ll enhance Global File Changer so it can make almost any change you can imagine In other words once you own Global File Changer we ll make any enhancements you need for a fraction of what it would cost to have an MDL programmer write a separate program to do the same thing Special commands that are added to Global File Changer on customer request are frequently placed on the Custom menu By keeping your software maintenance current you ll get most of the enhancements we make for other users at no extra charge To execute a custom command just select the command you want off the Custom menu and Global File Changer will prompt you for all the information it needs to make the change that you request Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 49 After you give Global File Changer all the information it asks for it will fill in the second field of the main
61. File Settings had a period which is non standard so it was removed The title for the Custom Scale Cells dialog box was previously showing as Define Cell Names it was corrected to Scale Cells The Custom Replace Cells dialog box hadn t been insisting that a cell library be specified now it does In investigating problems in this area it was noted that MicroStation can not save a cell library if it has a long file name The name gets truncated at nine characters A tricky situation is created when running Custom Modify Text with Selection if you go back into Modify Text it won t know that you want it to operate only on selected elements it modifies all text elements Further explanations and notes have been added to this User Manual 3 1c 17 March 1999 Corrected a problem with recognizing February 29 2000 as a valid date 3 1b 30 December 1998 To increase compatibility with all platforms and all systems and all document viewers the use of tabs in the reports was completely eliminated and replaced with simple spaces Tabs in the source code were also replaced with spaces making it uniform throughout this streamlines future maintenance of the program 3 1a 24 December 1998 The standard Axiom method for saving and loading application settings was implemented in Global File Changer The standard system was enhanced to give the ability to tell Global File Changer to use a specific settings file via
62. Global File Changer window automatically Therefore to use the custom commands described in this chapter there is no need to write your own key file or to compose your own key in command Global File Changer does it for you Custom Copy design file settings Which design file should we copy from Cancel Use this function to copy settings from one design file to another The settings that will be copied are the ones that you find in the MicroStation Settings Design File dialog Design File Settings For MicroStation version 8 this custom tool copies active model settings from the source file to selected model s in the target file s See Options Models to process The keyin command syntax is Axiom Copy Design File Settings source design file For example Axiom Copy Design File Settings source dgn Page 50 Global File Changer Custom Copy dimension settings from another design file V7 only Copy dimension settings from another design file Which design file should we copy from v 4e5247 NewStdD imensionSettings darl Select OK Cancel It may be desirable for all the design files in a project to have the same dimension settings Changing the dimension settings of 1500 design files would be a tedious job without Global File Changer Using this command Global File Changer will prompt you for the name of the design file whose dimension settings you want to copy Global File Ch
63. HAN 2 2 MU LINES AND LINE STRINGS ON LEVEL 30 Update Remove Apply Clear daidi Description name Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed SHAPES WITH COLOR 3 ONLY Each selection criteria must be given a name This is done in the Description data entry field Up to 128 characters are allowed in the Description field Spaces are allowed although leading and trailing spaces will be stripped from the name before adding it to the list Selection criteria lt Add gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the name currently displayed in the Description data entry field to the list of descriptions Page 136 Global File Changer lt Update gt The Update pushbutton updates the data for the currently highlighted name in the Description list with the information currently displayed in the Axiom Element Selection dialog box lt Remove gt The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted name from the list lt Apply gt The lt Apply gt pushbutton causes all those elements matching the highlighted selection criteria to be immediately selected in the design Using the lt Apply gt button you can immediately see which elements will be selected by the highlighted test Descriptions list SHAPES WITH COLOR 3 ONLY TEXT WITH HEIGHT LESS THAN 2 2 MU LINES AND LINE STRINGS ON LE YEL 30 The Description list contains all of the names of saved search criteria When you save this list
64. No you must run Options Save current settings to save your settings The Options Save settings on exit Yes or No is a setting you save with the resource file not necessarily a switch you use for that session If the resource file you have loaded has the save settings set for Yes and you set it to No and don t save the settings when you reload that resource file it will revert to Yes Options Update screen during processing Optinns Automate beckep before each file Automate ledesign alter each file b a j Help level Update sormen duning processing By default Global File Changer updates the screen as it makes changes to your design files By turning screen updating off you trade a bit of the visual excitement that Global File Changer generates as it does its job for increased speed With screen updating turned off Global File Changer can do many jobs over twice as fast Options Save current settings Select Save current settings to open a standard MicroStation Save settings dialog box where you can select a Global File Changer settings file to overlay with current settings or create a new settings file The default is to overlay the currently active settings file Pressing lt Enter gt or clicking on lt OK gt will cause the settings to be immediately saved to the selected file Chapter 6 The Options menus Page 45 When the above
65. S linkages Omcde Css fom fE 9 into Ramote Mody User Fino D Remote D Mocity T Usar Close Type Cinae Wonde in foilow This dialog box is divided into two sections One for DMRS linkages and one for all other database linkage types Database linkages types The valid non DMRS database linkage types are Oracle DBase Informix and RIS The toggle buttons are used to define which linkage types to search for You may use any combination of linkage types Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 129 Database overrides There are four override options that are common to all linkages These overrides are normally not changed The only override MicroStation uses is User which should never be set for DMRS linkages and always set for all other linkage types If you are not familiar with the overrides the toggle buttons should not be set Database class Class is defined by the application that puts the attribute linkage on the element It is a number from 0 to 23 You may define multiple classes separated by commas Ranges of classes are also allowed For example if you wanted to define classes 1 3 4 5 and 23 you enter the string 1 3 5 23 in the Class data entry field If you are not familiar with the class property in attribute linkages you should leave this field blank Words to follow MicroStation uses a field called Words to follow to indicate how much data is included in the attribute linka
66. User s Guide Global File Changer Make unlimited changes to multiple design files quickly and easily Version 3 3b V7 8 0b V8 Axiom International 1805 Drew Street Clearwater Florida 33765 1 727 442 7774 voice 1 727 442 8344 fax WWww axiomint com Page 2 Global File Changer Copyright 1993 2002 Axiom International All rights reserved This document was last modified on 15 May 2002 5 29 PM This software and manual are provided as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose The entire risk as to the quality and performance of this program is with you You are advised to test the program thoroughly before you rely on it Should the program prove defective you and not the seller nor manufacturer assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing repair or correction Any liability of seller or manufacturer of this software will be limited exclusively to product replacement or refund of the purchase price Venue for the resolution of any dispute related to this license or the use of this product shall be Pinellas County Florida MicroStation is a registered trademark of Bentley Systems Incorporated Global File Changer and Design File Manager are trademarks of Axiom International c winnt profiles ddirprog desktop changer doc Table of Contents Page 3 Table of Contents Ch
67. abase Mslink section for a description User data linkages User deia linkages User date You may select elements based on user data linkages User data linkages are placed on MicroStation elements by applications to provide additional information One example of this is when MicroStation places a graphic element with a custom line style MicroStation places user data on the element to store the custom line style name You may set the user data linkage values by using the User data pushbutton This will call up a new dialog box that will allow you to select the desired linkage values Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 131 Select User Data Data overrides There are four override options that are common to all linkages These overrides are normally not changed The only override MicroStation uses is User which should always be set for all user data linkages If you are not familiar with the overrides the toggle buttons should not be set Class This field is identical to the database linkage Class field Refer to the Set database Class section for a description Words to follow This field is identical to the database linkage Words to follow field Refer to the Set database Words to follow section for a description Word 1 10 The size of user data linkages are limited only by the maximum size of a MicroStation element Most user data linkages consist of 8 words of data however some applications
68. age 110 Global File Changer Secondary axis For circular ellipses the secondary axis will be equal to the radius of the ellipse For non circular ellipses MicroStation considers the second axis defined during placement of the ellipse as the secondary axis Since it is not possible to visually tell which axis was defined second the smaller of the two axes will be considered the secondary axis The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the ellipse properties set the filled option button to the desired option Ignore will normally be the desired mode and set the primary and secondary axis parameters with their associated condition option buttons You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For ellipses you may only care about the primary axis in which case you could leave the other parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the fill type primary axis and the secondary axis to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a ellipse is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the ellipse meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the ellipse will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves th
69. al File Changer to delete the file report rep but only while processing the first of the five design files By deleting the report rep file before we Chapter 12 Auxiliary Built in Commands Page 149 start we assure that report rep contains only information from this run of Global File Changer not information from yesterday last week or last month The Set parse on command This command sets the MicroStation parse mode to on The Set parse off command This command sets the MicroStation parse mode to off The Set Parse Toggle command The Set Parse Toggle command toggles the MicroStation parse mode Page 150 Global File Changer Chapter 13 Batch Mode What do we mean by Batch Mode In this chapter batch mode means starting Global File Changer directly from the operating system command line instead of from within graphics When you use the DOS MSBATCH command Global File Changer will run in batch mode using the settings that were in effect the last time you executed Global File Changer s Options Save current settings command Batch mode is discouraged There are several reasons for not running Global File Changer directly from the command line These include l MicroStation s key in command parser is not loaded when MicroStation is running in batch mode Therefore Global File Changer cannot execute MicroStation key in commands in batch mode Therefore only
70. all within the date range specified click the Add button To delete the files in the Selected Files list which fall within the date range specified click the Remove button Earliest date Eadliest Data Use this field to enter a beginning cutoff date for a range of files to be added to the selected files listbox Files whose last modification date is before this date will not be added to the selected files listbox when the lt Add by dates gt pushbutton is clicked or removed from the selected files listbox when the lt Remove by dates gt pushbutton is clicked Chapter 16 File List Editor Page 161 Latest date Letass Date Use this field to enter an ending cutoff date for a range of files to be added to the selected files listbox Files whose last modification date is after this date will not be added to the selected files listbox when the lt Add by dates gt pushbutton is clicked or removed from the selected files listbox when the lt Remove by dates gt pushbutton is clicked Note The Filter is combined with the dates when adding files to the selected files list In other words only those files which fall within the specified date range and which are displayed in the available files list are added to the selected files list when the Add button is clicked Messages xxx is not currently accessible This messag
71. and debugged We re confident you ll enjoy 100 trouble free use of Global File Changer Chapter 2 Installation Page 15 Chapter 2 Installation Preparing for installation Installation of Axiom products is quick and easy Your computer must have MicroStation up and running You should have a license file for the product s you are about to install and know the location of that file Installation from CD 1 Insert the CD into your drive 2 In MicroStation enter the following MDL LOAD X USTN V INSTALL Note In these instructions the question mark in V must be replaced with 8 for installing MicroStation V8 products and 7 for installing all other MicroStation products MicroStation 95 SE and J Licenses Enter the location of the license file axiom lic for the products you are installing usually provided on diskette or by e mail Then press lt Next gt If you are installing a demo or you don t know where your license is click lt lgnore gt Cancel Ignore Next When you see the Licenses dialog enter the location of your Axiom license file For example A AXIOM LIC If you are not sure where it is use the lt Browse gt button to find it If you are installing a demo version click lt Ignore gt You will see a dialog box containing the available products to install The products that match your license file will already be highlighted You can install all
72. anger s Element Selection dialog box You will see a powerful set of options that let you define very specific element selection properties You can find a full description of the options in this dialog box in the section of this guide called Element Selection amp Element Selection Ei cE File Help Element types Colors Weights Line styles Po B tl Colors Weights Styles User data linkages Database linkages Levels DEE User data Database wildcard hei Selection region 1 y1 21 82 92 22 Graphic groups Properties Classes Locked Primary Not locked Pattern component New Construction ha ooo I 1a e S Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed Add DEFAULT Update Remove Api Clear Clear All OK Cancel In addition to the general parameters on the main dialog each element type selected includes its own selection dialog box with parameters tailored to that type Access this dialog via the arrow to the right of the element type name Text e For example with text you may select text with specific fonts justifications text heights and widths and text matching one or more specific strings Note Selection sets can be moved across PC based platforms but not between UNIX based platforms and PC based platforms This is due to formatting differences in the operating systems Chapter 5 Running Global File
73. anger will then automatically compose the key in command that will make the changes you want Global File Changer will copy the dimension settings from the design file you specify to all the design files that match your filename wildcard Tip The Options Automatic filedesign after each file option must be turned ON in order for your changes to get saved to the design file If this option is not turned on this function will appear to have had no effect The keyin command syntax is Axiom Copy Dimension Params source design file For example Axiom Copy Dimension Params source dgn Custom Copy level symbology V7 only Copy settings from another design file E poe wee lt It may be desirable for all the design files in a project to have the same level symbology settings Select the Copy level symbology command from the Custom menu Global File Changer will prompt you for the name of the design file whose level symbology Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 51 settings you want to copy Global File Changer will then automatically compose the key in command that will make the changes you want Global File Changer will copy the level symbology settings from the design file you specify to all the design files that match your filename wildcard The keyin command syntax is Axiom Copy Level Symbology source_design_file Example Axiom Copy Level Symbology source dgn Custom Count c
74. any key an Alert dialog box will give you the alternatives to Cancel and continue processing stop the processing only on the current file or stop the complete process lt Display Report gt 2 Press this button to display the output report generated by Global File Changer The lt Display Report gt button will be grayed out when no report file with the specified name exists During processing the report file will be created and the button becomes available lt Exit gt EE Press this button to exit mdl unload Global File Changer Page 40 Global File Changer Chapter 6 The Options menus About settings Most all of the settings that control the operation of Global File Changer are saved in a resource file Every time you start Global File Changer this file is loaded restoring the settings from the last time they were saved To start with this file contains the default settings but depending upon choices made in the Options Menu new values may be saved and subsequently restored A common method of operation is to have Save settings on exit set to YES so that Global File Changer looks the same when you start it as it did the last time you quit By default this file is axiom changer changer rsc If you are on a network and want to have your own private settings file go into MicroStation Workspace Configuration and define the variable CHANGER_RSC The value of this varia
75. apter 1 Introduction 11 Problem Chapter 4 Quick Slatt ee Open the designfile clockden a 221 Page 4 Global File Changer The default design file directory as Sek oc ack i i sss eo cg is sen Ss mre Su ey sa eS me usin i se a Um nits pt Sta et i ope me py Spe wm ms Vs a ace 4 Table of Contents Page 5 Page 6 Global File Changer ee C ance a aa I CR E a ee RETO 74 Parameters Table of Contents Page 7 Be KCancel gt rari lap one a a i i aa GPP ea ac Element Selection Element Types H 1 a in mt ae i Page 8 Global File Changer Selection region Pa Ra a a a a ES TT Graphic groups Table of Contents Page 9 Page 10 Global File Changer Chapter 1 Introduction Page 11 Chapter 1 Introduction Problem The problem with most MicroStation sites is that they have more than one design file If each site had just one design file making system wide changes would be easy If you only had one design file and you wanted to start using a new cell library all you would have to do is bring up the design file with MicroStation and enter RC newlib Your problem would quickly be solved But what if you want to change the cell library or replace a certain cell or replace text or re scale all the yellow text on level 34 or for a proje
76. ard File Format document under the heading of Properties indicator The Properties list box uses the Windows style of selection This means you can make selections by clicking the mouse on a single item dragging the mouse over a range of items use the Control key with the mouse click or use the Shift key with the mouse click Ceasgseas Primary t Feher componant Construction Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 135 MicroStation has seven possible classes of elements primary pattern component construction dimension primary rule linear pattern and construction rule Normally you will not be aware of the class of an element because MicroStation automatically sets the class as the element is placed The most commonly used classes are primary dimension and construction The Class list box uses the Windows style of selection This means you can make selections by clicking the mouse on a single item dragging the mouse over a range of items use the Control key with the mouse click or use the Shift key with the mouse click Saving Element Selection Criteria You may define several search criteria and save them to a file This file may then be used to make selection sets later Each selection is given a descriptive name and then added to a list of descriptions Selection criteria Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed LINES AND LINE STRINGS ON LEVEL 30 SHAPES WITH COLOR 3 ONLY TEXT WITH HEIGHT LESS T
77. arts with H and ends with E H E Match any 3 letter shared cell that starts with H and ends with E A Any shared cell that starts with A or that has exactly 2 characters Properties To set the shared cell properties key in a single shared cell name or wildcard combination lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the shared cell name to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a shared cell is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the shared cell meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the shared cell will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of shared cell parameters in memory and closes the Shared Cells dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of shared cell parameters and closes the Shared Cells dialog box Solid There ans no additions parameters for Solid There are no additional parameters for solid elements Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 119 Surface Surface There are no additional parameters for surface elements gt Ja oa Loo Text has six parameters that may be specified font justification text height text width search string and string format Font You may set as many fonts in your selection criteria as you need
78. as The range of valid color numbers is 0 to 255 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 255 an error message will be displayed You may also select colors by using the Colors pushbutton This will call up a new dialog box that will allow you to select the desired colors graphically If any color numbers are already in the Colors data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Colors dialog box displays Select colors dialog box With this dialog box you can see the actual colors as well as their associated numbers This dialog box uses the Windows style of selection This means you can make selections by clicking the mouse on a single item dragging the mouse over a range of items use the Control key with the mouse click or use the Shift key with the mouse click To select a single color simply click the mouse on the desired selection If any other colors were previously selected they will be cleared from the selection leaving only the single color in the selection To select a single range of colors place the mouse on either the first or last color in the range Press the data button down and drag the mouse to the other end of the range of Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 125 desired colors If any other colors were previously selected they will be cleared from the selection leaving only the range that was just selected An alternate way to select a range of colors is to first click on either th
79. as a selection set that saved set will select elements that meet any one of the saved criteria When a description name is highlighted the Axiom Element Selection dialog box is automatically populated with the saved values You may then review the saved selection criteria or modify some of its values Suppose you find that the levels in the ROADS search criteria is not set correctly First you would select ROADS from the description list Next you would set the levels field to the correct levels You would then select the lt Remove gt pushbutton to remove saved ROADS selection criteria Lastly you would select the lt Add gt pushbutton to add the corrected ROADS selection criteria to the list Chapter 11 Wildcards and Regular Expressions Page 137 Chapter 11 Wildcards a nd Regular Expressions Options for finding and replacing text Both wildcards and regular expressions are coding systems that allow users to match specific combinations of text that are similar in some regular way or are an exact match Regular expression coding gives you far more control and precision than wildcards Depending on the purpose of the program wildcards and regular expressions can be used for simply finding specific text combinations or they can be used to find and replace or rename the text or names found Wildcard expressions Wildcards use two special characters The which is used to represent any number including zero of unspecifie
80. ave this MSLINK column and each row to have a unique value in this column You may define multiple mslink values separated by commas Ranges of mslink values are also allowed For example if you wanted to define mslinks 1 to 100 and 200 to 300 you enter the string 1 100 200 300 in the Mslink data entry field If you are not familiar with the mslink property in attribute linkages you should leave this field blank Page 130 Global File Changer DMRS overrides The DMRS overrides are identical to the database linkage overrides Refer to the Set database overrides section for a description DMRS Class The DMRS class is identical to the database linkage class Refer to the Set database Class section for a description Type Type is defined by the application that puts the attribute linkage on the element It is a number from 0 to 23 You may define multiple types separated by commas Ranges of types are also allowed For example if you wanted to define types 1 3 4 5 and 23 you enter the string 1 3 5 23 in the Type data entry field If you are not familiar with the type property in DMRS linkages you should leave this field blank Entity The DMRS entity is identical to the database linkage entity Refer to the Set database Entity for a description Occurrence The DMRS occurrence is identical to the database mslink property with one exception the range of valid values is 0 to 16777215 Refer to the Set dat
81. be used A later section in this guide explains the wildcard and regular expression logic that the program uses in both search and replace functions We recommend studying this section before using the search and replace option Using wildcards For Wildcard strings the character means match any string of characters and a means match any single character Regular expressions are also allowed Replacement of substrings is supported Warning The built in regular expression functions operate erratically in some DOS versions of MicroStation Test your search replacement strings before running on production files Note Text matching is case sensitive Replacement string When existing text matches the data in your Search string the information in the corresponding Replacement string field comes into play Adding new lines to existing text and text nodes To change a text element to a text node or to add lines to an existing text node use An This functionality is best used without wildcard and regular expression options For example if you have the following line string One thousand pixels are contained in this shape that is blue And you want to convert this into two line strings You would enter this into the Search string and you can enter the following into the Replacement string This shape contains one thousand pixels n This shape is blue You would ha
82. beginning and end of this search string it would include everything Page 138 Global File Changer before and after these characters as well The above search string would match I always wondered why my name is Jim and not James It would also match Have you ever wondered why Mythology is JIMAL S worst subject Even though that may not be what was intended The regular expression equivalent to the above wildcard string would be Mm Y y a Ss Mm String substitution with wildcards If you are doing string substitution using wildcards remember that everything found by your search string will be replaced with exactly what is in the replacement section If you for instance used a wildcard search string like Jim and had the replacement set as Joe for our examples immediately above the result would be both complete sentences being replaced by the one word Joe only If we just used Jim as our wildcard search string with the same replacement of Joe the results of the two sentences would be I always wondered why my name is Joe and not James and Have you ever wondered why Mythology is JoeAL S worst subject The first replacement might be what we want but the second one almost certainly would not be Regular expressions In the context of the normal world as opposed to the arcane computerese world the term Regular Expression has very little relevance to the m
83. blank that do not apply For text you may only care about the substring in which case you could leave the other parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the text parameters to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a text element is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the text element meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the text element will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list Page 122 Global File Changer The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of text parameters in memory and closes the Text dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of text parameters and closes the Text dialog box Text Nodes Taxt Modes Tai Hado paama Font setherton Height wiih lisa sparing Lines laagi Mode sunmbhesr T a e A E E A O Text nodes have seven parameters that may be specified font justification text height text width line spacing line length and text node number Font This parameter is identical to the Font parameter for text Justification This parameter is identical to the Justification parameter for text Height and Width These two parameters are identical to the Text Height and Width parameters for text The Condition option button The condition option button is de
84. ble overrides any part of the default file specification as mentioned above For instance if you wanted to save your settings in axiom changer wilbur rsc you could define CHANGER RSC as wilbur rsc it would then replace the default name and extension with wilbur and rsc Or you could just define it as wilbur and it would only override the name part of the file specification the results would be the same On the other hand if you defined it as a path it would use changer rsc in the specified folder For example d smith would override the path portion of the default file specification giving you d smith changer rsc as the working setting file Because CHANGER RSC is defined as a User level variable no other MicroStation users will see it and therefore will not use the same file The working settings file is where Global File Changer saves the application settings The Save current settings and Load a settings file will change the working settings file Chapter 6 The Options menus Page 41 amp Global File Changer amix File Options Custom Selection Help Whicl Automatic backup before each file gt Automatic filedesign after each file gt Edit List Help level gt Whicl execute Select t pi Models to process gt wt era Save settings on exit gt Edi BE Update screen during processing gt ea Save curent
85. bliss replacement string But surely 3 2 not 1 then the resulting string would be But surely bliss is not ignorance If a segment number does not exist the replacement expression is discarded This normally comes about when there are fewer segments defined in the search string than there are referenced in the replacement string For example target string They say ignorance is bliss search string ingnorance is bliss replacement string But surely 4 3 not 2 then the resulting string would be But surely bliss not is Note the two spaces between the words surely and bliss Since there are literal spaces on both sides of the 4 they are both included in the replacement string Segment number four would have been put between them had there been a fourth segment in the search string To insert a backslash followed by a number into the replacement string the rules for the backslash still hold true That is by preceding a backslash with another backslash the first backslash literalizes the second backslash Thus 1 in a replacement string would result in 1 being inserted into the target string Note that when using segments everything that matched the pattern enclosed by the segment delimiters is included in the segment that is inserted into the result Hexadecimal Characters In versions 3 3a and later you can use a backslash to
86. brary key lock key lvlsymb key nodeoff key nodeon key origin key scale key unlock key workunit key 127level key Demo versions V8 only Change color weight and style of selected elements to bylevel It uses demo sel to select the elements that will be changed Change color weight and style of selected elements It uses demo sel to select the elements that will be changed Applies Fit View to views 1 to 8 Turn on graphic group lock Move all displayable elements on level 1 to level 4 In V8 version move all displayable elements from default level to nlevel Attach new cell library to all design files Lock all graphic elements so they cannot be changed with MicroStation Turn on level symbology in views and 5 Turn off the display of text node numbers in all views Turn on the display of text node numbers in all views Shift the global origin by 1000 UORs Calls origin ucm Scale all design files by 75 Unlock all graphic elements so they can be changed with MicroStation V7 only Change the working units of the design file Calls workunit ucm V7 only Uses MS calculator to extend levels to 127 The Global File Changer demo version only works on files of size 100 KB or less Your permanent version of Global File Changer will not have this restriction Chapter 5 Running Global File Changer Page 31 Chapter 5 Running Glo bal File Changer Getting started with Global File Changer Global File C
87. ced to lower case and then each individual word will be capitalized Words are defined as being delimited one or more space character First Word The entire text element will first be forced to lower case and then the first word will be capitalized Vertical Text Yes The modified text will be displayed vertically No Vertical text parameters will be stripped from text elements making the element return to being regular horizontal text Underline Underline 0 200000 If this parameter is set to a numeric value the text elements will be displayed as underlined A numeric value is a percentage of the modified text element s height This allows you to modify text of differing sizes using the same numeric value Underline No If this parameter is set to No the underline attribute will be stripped from text elements Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 87 Slant Slant 10 000000 If this parameter is set to a numeric value this value will be used as the number of degrees of slanting to apply to the text elements Valid values are between 85 to 85 degrees Slant No If this parameter is set to No any slant attribute will be stripped from text elements Text replacement The Text Replacement section consists of three parts The first line must be the string Replacement Parameters This indicates the beginning of the text replacement section Following the Replace Parameters line is the search string and replace
88. ch String parameter allows you to include in the search criteria a string of characters or a regular expression that matches the text string Suppose you had three data entry fields in a design file Man hole Street name and Signal A wildcard search string of na would return Street name and Signal String Format You have two choices here Regular Expression and Wildcard The Regular Expression is the powerful string matching system that was developed in conjunction with UNIX The Wildcard is like Regular expressions with two exceptions For people not familiar with regular expressions Axiom Element Selection allows to represent any single character The normal regular expression to represent this is to use a period The other exception concerns the character For people not familiar with regular expressions Axiom Element Selection allows to represent any combination of characters The normal regular expression to represent this is to use a combination Because Axiom programs automatically replace each character in the substring with a combination you should not use the regular expression in the substring data entry field in Wildcard mode Properties To set the text properties set the font and justification parameters as well as the height and width and their associated condition option buttons and the substring You may leave any properties
89. ck on clock dgn to highlight it Then Click lt Add gt to put that file into the Selected Files list as in the image above Click lt OK gt Page 24 Global File Changer Select the key in file The key file must be set up before running Global File Changer and contains the commands to be executed We will cover the construction of this file later in this guide In the meantime select clock key as the key in file to be used for processing by clicking the lt Select gt button next to the field labeled Which file contains the keyin commands you want to execute Which file contains the keyin commands you want to execute Select c Program Files Axiom V8 changer sample clock key Edit This will bring up the standard MicroStation file open dialog box Changer Select Key file File Directories clock key WAsiom 8 changersample ec gt Program Files gt Axiom E v8 E changer gt sample di Cancel List Files of Type Drives key yj Bc O A Help Select the drive and directory where Global File Changer sample files were installed click on clock key and click lt OK gt The Clock key file contains keyin commands that address groups of elements named LINES NUMBERS FACE and HANDS You will define these four groupings of elements when you create your selection set Create the selection set A clock sel sample file is deliver
90. ct that consists of 85 design files Bad solution 1 Theoretically you could do nothing You could just tell your operators to wait until the next time they got into each design file and enter RC newlib ce at that time But then for a period of time some of your design files would be pointing to one cell library while other design files were pointing to another Sooner or later at least one of your operators would forget to switch to the new library he d modify and place cells from the old one and presto you d have a time consuming disaster to sort out There s no getting around the following basic CAD management principle trying to get the same change made by different operators on different design files at different times is unlikely to produce consistent results The confusion and lost production from the resulting errors and inconsistencies can be very expensive to repair Bad solution 2 Another thing you might do in theory anyway would be to spend an afternoon bringing up each design file one after the other and typing RC newlib cel for each one That would eventually solve the problem but would require 100 to 200 worth of labor and a considerable amount of patience to complete Good solution Or if you were wise you would use Global File Changer to solve the whole problem in just a few minutes Page 12 Global File Changer Just tell Global File Changer which design files you want to change dgn and
91. d when the Levels dialog box displays Select levels dialog box With this dialog box you can see the level numbers This dialog box uses the Windows style of selection This means you can make selections by clicking the mouse on a single item dragging the mouse over a range of items use the Control key with the mouse click or use the Shift key with the mouse click The Select Levels dialog box uses the same selection mode as the Select Colors dialog box Refer to the section Select Colors dialog box for an explanation on making selections graphically When the OK button is pressed the Select Levels dialog box will be dismissed and the Levels data entry field on the Axiom Element Selection dialog box will be automatically populated with the selected levels If no levels are selected the Levels data entry field will be blank When the Cancel button is pressed the Select Levels dialog box will be dismissed The value of the Levels data entry field will remain unchanged Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 133 V8 level picker Specify Levels Specify Levels Level Name Level Number Bdge arch3 2 struct01 3 ct struct02 4 struct02 Default 0 Default 0 OK Exit OK Exit MicroStation version 8 allows unlimited levels and long level names For this reason the V8 level picker has a different design You will see a display of all levels in your active design file You can pick from these holding down th
92. d characters in a string The other special character is the 2 This means exactly one instance of any character in a string All other characters are treated literally The only exception to this is a backslash followed immediately by either the or the another backslash or a hexadecimal number To be processed literally the following characters must be preceded by a backslash backslash asterisk question mark In versions 3 3 and later you can also use a backslash to precede a hexadecimal character representation for example use F8 for the degree symbol The program will search for these strings and convert them before applying wildcard or regular expression logic Wildcards are case insensitive The in the wildcard system would mean the same as in regular expressions The would have the same meaning as the in regular expressions Examples hyphen followed by any three other characters another hyphen and then 1234 dgn It would find AR ref 1234 dgn I would also match AR ref 1234 DGN since wildcards are case insensitive It would not match A Rref 1234 dgn A regular expression which would find the exact same strings would be 1234 Dd Gg Nn The wildcard search string my is Jim would match any string that contained somewhere within it my followed by is Jim anywhere later in the string Because there is an at the
93. d the end but not within He reached the end of the road Note that it would not find a match within He reached the end because of the period at the end of the string If a dollar sign occurs anywhere but at the end of a regular expression it is interpreted as a literal character Thus 100 will match only 100 treating the dollar sign as a literal To match a string ending with a dollar sign you must specify a literal dollar sign followed by a special character dollar sign would match the last two characters of any string whose last character was a dollar sign Page 140 Global File Changer Character sets Brackets and Brackets are used to delimit a set of characters any one of which may match a single character in the search string Thus Aa will match any occurrence of the letter a either upper or lower case and 0123456789 will match any single digit When the caret is used as the first character after a left square bracket it reverses the meaning of the search 0123456789 will match any character except a digit And 1 40123456789 will match the first character of a string as long as it is not a number Note that in this case the caret is used in with both its special meanings Hyphens The hyphen has special meaning when used within brackets It indicates a range of characters and must
94. dd gt pushbutton adds the cell type and cell name to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a cell is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the cell meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the cell will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list All components must be on selected levels When this is checked all the elements that make up a cell must be on one of the selected levels on the main Axiom Element Selection dialog box for that cell to be selected If it is not checked at least one element must be on one of the selected levels for the cell to be considered If there are no levels specified on the main Axiom Element Selection dialog box then this option is ignored lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of cell parameters in memory and closes the Cells dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of cell parameters and closes the Cells dialog box Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 101 Complex Shapes Complex Shapes Ea Complex Shape parameters Filed Fill color Perimeter ignora j i a Complex shapes have three parameters that may be specified filled fill color and perimeter Filled Closed elements such as shapes complex shapes and ellipses may be displayed as filled elements or not filled Filled option button
95. e Ctrl key to select more than one To add names that are not in the active design file can type them in on the main selection box using comma separators You can also select levels by number and number ranges as in the V7 version Selection region Selection region x1 y1 21 4 2 y2 22 534 269 29 505 277 40 The Selection region gives you the ability to select a block of elements within certain coordinates in 2D and 3D files Coordinates should define any two opposing corners in an imaginary 2D rectangle or 3D solid When using a selection region other element selection criteria Type Level Symbology Class etc still apply Thus you have the ability to select only certain elements within the selection region itself In the image above the X Y and Z values show coordinates for the opposing corners of an imaginary cube Elements that fit fully within these coordinates will be selected If you were also to specify a certain color in the Colors field only elements that fit fully within those coordinates and were the correct color would be selected Note When working with 2D files you must still specify Z values although they will be ignored Page 134 Global File Changer Graphic groups Graphie groupe You may set as many graphic group numbers in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual graphic group numbers or ranges of graphic group numbers For exam
96. e you may only care about the length in which case you could leave the other parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the length and number of poles to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a b spline curve is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the b spline curve meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the b spline curve will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of b spline curve parameters in memory and closes the B Spline Curves dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of b spline curve parameters and closes the B Spline Curves dialog box B Spline Surfaces B Spline Surface There are no additions parameters for E Spline Suraca There are no additional parameters for b spline surfaces Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 99 Cells Cells Cell parameters Cell type Cell name P All components must be on selected levels OK Cancel Cells have two parameters that may be specified cell type and cell name Selection of cells by level may be further controlled insisting that all the component elements must be on selected levels as opposed to only requiring that some be on the specified levels The Cell type optio
97. e design file directory is your current default directory To make another directory your default for the next time you start Global File Changer enter the file specification you want and select the Options Save current settings command or have the Save settings on exit feature ON Which file contains the keyin commands you want to execute There are two ways to tell Global File Changer what commands you want to execute on each of your design files 1 Enter the name of a key in file Which file contains the keyin commands you want to execute Edit dgntest changer modified key Chapter 5 Running Global File Changer Page 37 A key in file is a simple text file that contains the MicroStation key in commands you want Global File Changer to execute on each design file Each line of the key in file contains one or more key in commands that you want Global File Changer to execute You can put more than one command on a line if you separate each command with a semicolon The following is an example of a key in file called library key The purpose of library key is to attach a new cell library called changer cel to a set of design files Save uit Attach new cell library to all design files rc rc sample cel filedesign 2 Enter a MicroStation key in command directly Which file contains the keyin commands you want to execute Edit Axiom Center Global Origin Select To do so ent
98. e first or last color in the range Then move the mouse to the other end of the range of colors and hold down the Shift key while you click the mouse again Here is an example of selecting colors 10 to 20 First move the mouse to color number 10 and click the data button Next move the mouse to color number 20 and click data button again You should see a black box appear around each color from color 10 to color 20 None of the other color numbers will have a black box around them To toggle a single color without disturbing any other previous selections move the mouse to the desired color Next hold down the Control key and click the mouse If the color was not selected before it should now be selected If the color was already selected it should now no longer have the black box around it The Control button is used to change a selection without disturbing the rest of the selections Here is an example of using the Control key to de select color number 15 from a the range of colors 10 to 20 First move the mouse to color number 10 and click the data button You will see color 10 is now the only selected color Next move the mouse to color number 20 and while holding down the Shift key click on it You should now have colors 10 to 20 selected Now position the mouse on color number 15 Hold down the Control key and click the data button You should see color 15 is no longer selected The Control key cannot be used in conjunction with the mouse draggi
99. e indicates one of two things 1 A file specification was entered into the Files field but it does not correspond to any resource accessible to the system This usually just ends up being a mis typed or mis remembered directory name or UNC path 2 A resource is truly not accessible to your system Some likely reasons for this are a you do not have or no longer have access permissions for the resource b the resource s name has changed c a resource is down offline or inaccessible for some other mechanical reason d drive letter mappings have been changed on your computer e a directory has been deleted or moved If you get this message and have checked your entry contact your systems administrator to determine why the resource is not accessible Note The term resource is borrowed from the UNC definition lt server name gt lt resource name gt In our context we mean a specified device directory combination in either DOS or UNC format This specifically excludes the filename and extension Examples of this might be c dgn_files and server drive_c dgn_ files Problems installing or re installing There are a few things that you can check if you have problems with installation Our installation program looks for a file named AXIOM CFG which is usually found in your MicroStation directory CONFIG APPL This file should at the very least contain the following Page 162 Gl
100. e list of ellipse parameters in memory and closes the Ellipses dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of ellipse parameters and closes the Ellipses dialog box Chapter 10 E Lines lement Selection Page 111 Lines have only one parameter that may be specified length Length Closed elements such as shapes complex shapes and ellipses may be displayed as filled elements or not filled Length is based on master units You may enter either a decimal number such as 1 5 or working unit values like 1 50 0 Properties To set the line properties set the length parameter with its associated condition option button lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the length to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a line is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the line meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the line will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of line parameters in memory and closes the Lines dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of line parameters and closes the Lines dialog box Page 112 Global File Changer Line Strings Line Strings Ling Sting parameters am CS m l Line strings have two param
101. e pm Design files c microstation msj axiom changer sample changer dgn Command file c MicroStation MSJ Axiom changer sample library key Automatic backup Yes Automatic filedesign No Update screen during processing Yes Licensing information Corporate license Axiom International c microstation msj axiom changer sample changer dgn After initializing design file MS Display complete After automatic backup command MS Saved to c microstation msj axiom changer sample changer bak Attach new cell library to all design files rc rc sample cel MS Lib not found sample cel filedesign ST gt Settings Saved 1 files were processed in this run Abbreviations used in this report include Message field Error field Prompt field Status field Command field Notice that for each design file you see the following 1 The name of the design file 2 A line that starts with 3 A report of what messages were displayed in the MicroStation command window immediately after this design file was opened but before Global File Changer executed any commands The two character abbreviation at the start of each line indicates in which of the five MicroStation message fields this message was displayed The abbreviations are described at the end of the report file 4 The first line of the key in file In the example above the first line of the key in file is a comment starts with a semicolon Comments are for your
102. eaning of the word regular as used in normal English conversation It is just a name that had some meaning within the academic computer society several decades ago and has been carried over from then Regular expressions are a very powerful tool for finding and replacing text strings that have similar characteristics Using regular expressions you can literally pick a text string apart into as many pieces as you want then reassemble them in any order you want while adding any new pieces you need in the process A regular expression is made up of special characters and literals A special character is defined as a single character that has special meaning when used in a regular expression The period is a special character A literal is defined as anything that is not a special character The letter A would be a literal The verb to match is used extensively in this chapter It means to accept as equivalent to Thus the period is accepted as equivalent to any alphanumeric character Special characters Special characters are single characters that have special meaning when used in a regular expression Chapter 11 Wildcards and Regular Expressions Page 139 Period Matches any alphanumeric character Thus a matches act art ash co 33 66 arc ate and so on Asterisk Matches any number of repetitions of t
103. ed If both a fence and a selection set are active when the command is executed the fence is ignored and only selected text will be processed Tip If you wish to use a fence or selection set with Custom Modify Text you must put the commands to place the fence or create the selection set using Global File Changer s Element Selection in a key in file Each text and textnode parameter has a keyword associated to it Below is a list of each keyword and a short description Each keyword is case insensitive X Scale XScale 2 000000 This parameter is used to scale text and textnodes in the x direction This parameter is applied to the text width Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 83 Y Scale Yscale 2 000000 This parameter is used to scale text and textnodes in the y direction This parameter is applied to the text height Angle Angle 10 000000 This parameter defines an angle in degrees to be added to the element s current rotation Level Level 1 Absolute Level Yes The element is forced to the level defined by the Level parameter This is the default Absolute Level No The element will be forced to the sum of the element s current level and the number defined in the Level parameter Tip If the above calculation exceeds 63 64 is subtracted from the result Cells Cells No Text and textnodes in type 2 cells will not be processed This is the default value Cells Yes Text and
104. ed only text within the fence will be processed If a selection set is active when the command is executed selected text will be processed Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 79 If both a fence and a selection set are active when the command is executed the fence is ignored and only selected text will be processed lt Cancel gt Press the lt Cancel gt pushbutton to dismiss the Extended Text Parameters dialog box along with any changes made to the dialog box Replacement strings dialog box Parameters Help Search strin Replacement string String Format eC Add Update Remove OK Cancel The Parameter pulldown menu Use the Parameters pulldown menu to bring up other Modify Text dialog boxes Set text parameters Select this option to access the Text Parameters dialog box Set extended text parameters Select this option to access the Extended Text Parameters dialog box Help Help on replacement strings Use this pulldown menu to access help on replacement strings parameters Note When the help dialog box is displayed you may get help for any specific parameter by clicking on the dialog item related to the desired parameter Use this option to open the help dialog box and display the first page of help for the Replacement Strings dialog box Page 80 Global File Changer Search string Use this option to define an existing text string in the design file Wildcard characters and regular expressions may
105. ed with Global File Changer but this section gives you a short drill on how to create it The selection criteria determine which elements the key ins from the key in file will act upon Use Element Selection from the Selection menu Chapter 4 Quick Start Global File Changer File Options Custom Selection Which design files do yo Element selection This will bring up the Element Selection Dialog box Page 25 By default all elements are selected Click the lt Clear All gt button on the bottom left of the dialog box to unselect them Element Selection File Help Weights Colors ee Colors Weights Styles Element types User data linkages Database linkages Selection region 41 y1 21 42 y2 22 Properties Locked Not locked New Selection criteria Clear All OK Classes Primary Pattern component Construction Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed DEFAULT mm ES Line styles Levels a User data Database Levels Graphic groups Apply Clear i Cancel The next step is to create sets of element types to be modified CLOCK DGN contains lines text an ellipse and shapes We want to select each element type separately and give it an identifying name so that we can make different changes to each group of elements Click the Line button so
106. efined line style number Font forces the element s font to the font number defined Note The advantages of Global File Changer over EdG are almost too numerous to mention One however is that the integrity of your design files are maintained because changes made by Global File Changer are made using MicroStation itself For example EdG can change a text element s font But when it does it fails to adjust the range of the text element as it should It therefore introduces a range error every time it changes a font Global File Changer using MicroStation itself adjusts the text element s range when its font is changed This is just one of the many advantages of Global File Changer over EdG Text justification This parameter forces the text element s justification to the justification value defined There are nine valid text justification values LT left top LC left center LB left bottom CT center top CC center center CB center bottom Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text RT right top RC right center RB right bottom Textnode justification This parameter forces the textnode element s justification to the justification value defined There are fourteen valid text justification values Linespace LT left top LC left center LB left bottom LMT left margin top LMC left margin center LMB left margin bottom CT center top CC center center CB center bottom RMT right
107. ellManager is CellManager cellmgr D GnCompare Compare Duplicate Element Remover remover If you have multiple Axiom products and you only want one product to be removed you don t have to remove this product s name from the Axiom menu Just remove the __ program s files from your disk see section titled Removing files from your hard disk leaving the entry on the Axiom menu When you select the program from the Axiom Page 20 Global File Changer menu you will get a text style dialog box which will describe the product You will not get any errors or failures Removing the Axiom menu If you intend to remove all Axiom products from your computer you would want to do this step The Axiom menu is actually a program that is run whenever MicroStation is started up You can stop this menu from appearing in MicroStation by going into MicroStation Workspace Configuration and looking for the variable MS DGNAPPS Edit the value of this variable and remove the entry aximenu ma When you have done this next time you start MicroStation the menu bar will look like this 3donly dgn 2D MicroStation SE File Edit Element Settings Tools Utilities Workspace Window Help JES oJ ar al T Notice that the word Axiom no longer appears to the right of Help Removing files from your hard disk If you are removing an Axiom product you ll probably want to delete that produc
108. ells in design files What should we call the output report file Which cells should we process Report Grand Totals v Carce Use the Count Cells function to generate a count of the number of cells in selected design files by cell name What should we call the output report file You can use this field to specify a name and location for the report file Note The Count Cells report file and the Global File Changer report file are two separate files Be careful not to give these two files the same name Which cells should we process The Which cells should we process field accepts regular expressions To process all cells enter You can also enter a string of cell names separated by commas or spaces Report gt Cells in Each File Grand Totals Files and Totals Page 52 Global File Changer Report cells in each file If you select Report Cells in Each File Global File Changer will give you a list of cells for each design file For example V DGNTest Changer Unchanged DGNs changer dgn Cellname ALBOR E DECID F H NCELL DGNTest Changer NXF2 DGN Cellname Count ESSVPI 63 NOTE 4 PRIKK 18 REVTAG i Report grand totals If you select Grand Totals Global File Changer will give you the total number of times that each cell is used in all processed design files For example Ww Oo PRPBPRPREORENN Report files and totals If you select R
109. ence is ignored and only selected cells that match the wildcard will be processed Scaling operations Scaling operation features a pull down menu button which gives you the alternative to Multiply the current scale of the cells or Insert new values for a new size Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 67 S cale Cells 1 000000 Command syntax The syntax of the command is Axiom Scale Cell reference_point x_scale y_scale z scale cell wildcard Axiom Scale Cell Center Origin x_scale y_scale z_scale cell wildcard Example Axiom Scale Cell Origin 2 0 2 0 2 0 abc xyz The above command would double the size of all cells whose names begin with ABC or end with XYZ Page 68 Global File Changer Chapter 9 Custom Mo dify Text Overview The Modify Text custom function lets you control virtually any parameter of MicroStation text elements and textnodes and is easy to use All options can be set using standard MicroStation dialog boxes Like other Global File Changer commands Custom Modify text can operate on just a single design file or on hundreds of design files at once You control which text and textnode elements to work on all the text and textnodes in each design file ones within a fence or just the ones that are selected Used in conjunction withAxiom s powerful Element Selection feature the Custom Modify text command gives you enormous power to cont
110. enter usr mapping dgn as the design filename wildcard on the main Global File Changer dialog box Keyin command syntax The syntax of the keyin command is Axiom Merge source_design_file Example Axiom merge source dgn Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 55 Custom Modify text alara ection al Scale 1 r Symbalogy a Scale color 7 _ r Scale 1 000000 weie To E Feii Angle Sve 7 a E i parle fo ooooo0 A Options Level T in cells Lewet 1 E Element Types Bath Absolie level j Modi About insertion j This command lets you control virtually any parameter of MicroStation text elements and textnodes and is easy to use All options can be set using standard MicroStation dialog boxes Like other Global File Changer commands Custom Modify text can operate on just a single design file or on hundreds of design files at once This functionality is discussed in more detail in the Custom Modify text chapter Custom Move global origin to center of displayable elements This function moves the design file s global origin to the center of the extent of all the displayable elements in the design file An element with a corrupt range could cause this command to put the global origin in the wrong location If this happens repair the range error with FileFixer and rerun this command After running this function the coordinate 0 0 will
111. eport Files and Totals Global File Changer will output detail per design file followed by grand totals for all design files For example V DGNTest Changer Unchanged DGNs changer dgn Cellname ALBO Li DGNTest Changer NXF2 DGN Cellname Count ESSVPI 63 NOTE 4 PRIK 18 REVTAG Totar Cel G DEC Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 53 ESSVPT 62 ay L H 1 NCELL 1 NOTE 4 i PRIKK 8 REVTAG il Keyin command syntax You can run this function with the MicroStation keyin command Axiom Report on Cells report file cellname wildcard Report type Report type e rl Cells in Each file e 12 Grand Totals e 13 Files and Totals For example Axiom Report on Cells d CellCount rep r1 Axiom Report on Cells d CellCountTotals rep r2 Axiom Report on Cells d CellCountFull rep r3 Note You can only use one Axiom Report on Cells command in a key in file Custom Merge in design files Merge E Which design files should we merge in ee The Merge command that comes with Global File Changer lets you manually merge one design file into another design file This command lets you automatically merge any group of design files into any other group of design files V8 Tip In Version 8 of MicroStation the Merge design files feature merges the active model from the source file to selected model s in
112. er a pound sign followed by the MicroStation key in command Again you can enter multiple commands by separating them with a semicolon Typing the following in the key in field is another way of attaching a new cell library to a series of design files rc changer cel filedesign Remember that the is needed only when you enter a MicroStation key in within the Global File Changer main window The is not needed when MicroStation key ins are entered into a key in file lt Select gt and lt Edit gt Which file contains the keyin commands you want to execute Select c program files axiom changer sample changer key Edit Use the lt Select gt button to load an existing key file Use the lt Edit gt function to open the specified key file in a text editor Then you can view its contents and make any necessary modifications Page 38 Global File Changer A simple example You can try this simple keyin command on the sample demo file clock dgn that comes with Global File Changer CO 3 choose all change color Running user commands The following command demonstrates the easiest way to run a user command on a series of design files uc mine ucm You can specify almost any non interactive user command Global File Changer cannot execute user commands that prompt the user for information To make it easier for you to run user commands that are stored in your Global File Changer directory Global Fi
113. es 4 hihihihihi ia iaa a ai a a i iib Most of the element types have additional element specific parameters To set element specific parameters click on the arrow to the right of the element type name This will call up a new dialog box with element specific properties Text gt Once you have set element specific parameters the right arrow will be filled with black Also when an element type is selected which has additional element specific data defined the element type name will be displayed in blue instead of black Note When using a Selection set it is necessary to choose at least one element type in order for the Selection set to be processed Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 95 Arcs Arcs have three parameters that may be specified sweep angle primary axis and secondary axis Sweep angle The sweep angle is the number of degrees from one end point of the arc to the other end as calculated from the arc s center point Primary axis For circular arcs the primary axis will be equal to the radius of the arc For non circular arcs MicroStation considers the first axis defined during placement of the arc as the primary axis Since it is not possible to visually tell which axis was defined first the larger of the two axes will be considered to be the primary axis Secondary axis For circular arcs the secondary axis will be equal to the radius of the arc For non circular arcs MicroStat
114. eters that may be specified length and number of vertices Length The length of a line string is measured along the element from one endpoint to the other Length is based on master units You may enter either a decimal number such as 1 5 or working unit values like 1 50 0 Vertices Vertices means the number of vertices used to create the line string The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the line strings properties set the length parameter and the associated condition option button and then set the vertices and its associated condition option button You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For line strings you may only care about the length in which case you could leave the other parameter blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the length and number of vertices to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a line string is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the line string meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the line string will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 113 The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of line strings parameters i
115. f the Axiom product you no longer want to start when MicroStation is started Identifying your Axiom Base Directory You will need to identify where your Axiom Base Directory is Chapter 3 Uninstalling Page 19 Go into the into MicroStation Workspace Configuration dialog box and look for the AXT configuration variable The value of AXI will be your Axiom Base Directory It is usually something simple like c win32app axiom Removing products from the Axiom menu This is an optional step If you want to skip this step go on to the Removing the Axiom menu section This step is included here because some customers wanted to be able to customize their Axiom menu to exclude some programs from some of their computers The Axiom menu is found on the MicroStation menu bar and looks like this amp 3donly dgn 2D MicroStation SE MicroStation Productivity Toolkit CellManager DanCompare Duplicate Element Remover Fence Undelete To remove a product from the Axiom menu edit the file aximenu txt found in the Axiom Base Directory and remove the number sign from the beginning of the line that refers to the product you want to remove from the Axiom menu A small sample from the aximenu txt file looks like this CellManager cellmgr D GnCompare Compare Duplicate Element Remover remover and a sample of the same file now modified to show only C
116. filled parameter in which case you could leave the other parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the fill type and perimeter to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a shape is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the shape meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the shape will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of shape parameters in memory and closes the Shapes dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of shape parameters and closes the Shapes dialog box Shared Cells Shared Cells Shared Cell porameters 5 Cell name Shared Cells have only one parameter that may be specified cell name mao ancel Page 118 Global File Changer Solid Cell name The shared cell name field allows you to specify that shared cells you want to select It allows you to use a series of wildcards to specify shared cell names The character means match any string of characters The character means match any single character Following are some examples Match any shared cell B Match any shared cell that starts with the letter B F Match any shared cell that ends with the letter F H E Match any shared cell that st
117. g shared cells in some specific levels on the element selection These were fixed When selecting dimension elements to process users would sometimes get an MDL abort in seldimty mc at line 204 This has been handled Elements of certain custom linestyles could not be selected This has been handled Converting strings with special characters was causing an abort when using regular expressions This has been handled After processing Global File Changer on a list of design files it leaves the user in the last design file it processed Now Global File Changer returns to the original design file when it is done processing Custom Report revision letter on each design file was not creating a report file Now it does 3 2a 29 February 2000 Now whenever lt Start gt is not activated when it is grayed out the most important reason that it is grayed out there can be multiple reasons is displayed near the bottom of the main dialog box No cells were being processed when using the Center option in the Scale Cells custom feature This has been handled Page 166 Global File Changer On Global File Changer s main dialog box lt Alt S gt was the hot key for both Selection and the lt Start gt button This was handled by making lt Alt T gt the hot key for the lt Start gt button Added a File menu with Open Save and Save As options in the Replace Cells dialog box Now you can save your
118. ge By default non DMRS attribute linkages have 8 words of data The number of words in any attribute linkage must always be evenly divisible by 4 Based on the above description one would most likely assume that the normal value for non DMRS attribute linkages Words to follow would be 8 This however is not the case The actual value is 7 This is because the first word is never counted as part of the Words to follow Therefore valid values for Words to follow are 7 11 15 19 23 139 If you are not familiar with the Words to follow property you should leave this field blank Database entity The entity value in a database linkage indicates which database table this linkage points to Each table name is given a numeric value from 0 to 65535 These numbers are defined in the MSCATALOG table You may define multiple entities separated by commas Ranges of entities are also allowed For example if you wanted to define entities 1 3 4 5 and 23 you enter the string 1 3 5 23 in the Entity data entry field If you are not familiar with the entity property in attribute linkages you should leave this field blank Mslink The mslink value in a database linkage indicates which row in the database table this linkage points to Mslink a numeric value from 0 to 4294967295 This number is not a specific row number but rather a unique number in a specific column named MSLINK in the database table MicroStation requires all database tables to h
119. ged file Page 18 Global File Changer Chapter 3 Uninstalling Why you might uninstall an Axiom product There are a few reasons you may want to uninstall an Axiom product 1 You have run a demo and want to remove it from your computer 2 You have moved the product to another computer and need to remove the product from the original computer 3 You have a site or corporate license and want your users to have access to only some of the many Axiom products that you have already installed on their computers There may be other reasons How to do it There are three basic stages to uninstalling an Axiom product 1 Stopping MicroStation from trying to automatically run the Axiom product 2 Removing the Axiom product from MicroStation s Axiom menu or entirely removing the Axiom menu from MicroStation s menu bar 3 Removing the Axiom files from your hard disk Stop MicroStation from running an Axiom product Some Axiom products such as Version Manager and Microsoft Office Importer may be set up to run automatically whenever MicroStation is started You can stop this from happening by going into MicroStation Workspace Configuration and looking for the variable MS_DGNAPPS Edit the value of this variable and remove any references to the Axiom product that you no longer want to run automatically when running MicroStation Exit MicroStation and re start then check that the MS DGNAPPS variable is clear o
120. hanger is a powerful program Like any powerful program care should be exercised when using Global File Changer to change multiple design files Axiom International recommends that any sophisticated change you plan to make should be tested on scratch copies of your design files before being tried on active important design files Starting Global File Changer To start the program select Global File Changer from the Axiom menu on the MicroStation menu strip The Help dialog box When the Help option is set to Beginner mode a Help box appears at startup and presents a brief overview of the product Help System You are about to use one of the most powerful yet intuitive MDL applications ever written Global File Changer lets you change ANYTHING you can imagine about ANY SET OF DESIGN FILES With a single command you can make changes sophisticated or simple to every design file on your workstation or network Here s how it works Previous Start You can change the Help Level on the Options menu to Expert in order to bring up the Global File Changer dialog box without the Help dialog box After that select the Save current settings command on the Options menu or have the Save settings on exit option ON Tip The Help menu on the main Global File Changer dialog box allows you to access the full Users Guide Page 32 Global File Changer The main dialog box
121. have a character on each side of it to be valid A Z will match any upper case letter a z will match any lower case letter or 0 9 will match any digit a zA Z will match any letter either upper or lower case When found outside of brackets the hyphen is interpreted as a literal character To include the hyphen in a set of characters to search for precede it by a backslash Thus matches either a plus or minus sign whereas would be an invalid regular expression Repetitions The repetition codes are used to allow the same pattern to be matched multiple times The strict technical definition of a regular expression pattern is a sequence of one or more special characters and or literals that will match zero or more occurrences of a single character or set of characters Now that s quite a mouthful so it s easiest to think of it from the other direction Essentially it is a matched string of characters The formats are po x matches exactly x repetitions of pattern p o x matches at least x repetitions of pattern p po x y matches any number of repetitions of pattern p from x to y inclusive Note that this is one of the cases where literal characters the opening and closing braces are changed to special characters by the backslash x and y must be non negative integers less than 256 Whenever a choice exists a
122. he immediately preceding character or pattern including zero repetitions For example te11 matches tel followed by any number of s or no l s Thus it would find matches within the strings the tel number to tell the truth and answer the telephone Backslash V Reverses the special meaning of a character For example matches a period matches an asterisk and matches a backslash There are some cases where the backslash changes the meaning of a character from literal to special These cases are defined later If used before a character that is not a special character or that would have no meaning as a special character the backslash is simply ignored Caret Matches the beginning of a string Once upon a time will find a match within Once upon a time there were three bears but not within The story began once upon a time With a single exception if the caret occurs anywhere except the beginning of a regular expression it is interpreted as a literal The single exception to this is defined later To match a line starting with a caret sign you must specify a special character caret followed by a literal carat Thus would match the first two characters of any string whose first character was a caret Dollar sign Matches the end of a string the end will find a match within He reache
123. he product You will not get any errors or failures Axiom cfg file and axiom_user ucf file If you are removing all Axiom products from your computer you should also delete the file axiom cfg from MicroStation s config appl directory This step will also delete the MicroStation AXI configuration variable Check for the existence of an axiom_user ucf file in the same directory and delete this file also if it exists Page 22 Global File Changer Chapter 4 Quick Start The following Quick Start steps will show you some of the basic features of Global File Changer in just a few minutes During installation the files clock dgn clock sel and clock key are copied into the axiom changer sample directory This quick start section refers to those files Clock dgn is the master file that we are going to change In this tutorial we will modify one design file but you can select hundreds of files to modify e Clock sel is a file that describes the four different kinds of elements that we want to change Clock key contains the path to the clock sel and the instructions for changing the selected elements Open the design file clock dgn Navigate to the folder containing the installed Global File Changer sample files to find clock dgn The file will be in the CHANGER SAMPLE sub directory Edit the key file The first thing that needs to be done is to edit the clock key file You can use any text editor
124. id color numbers is 0 to 255 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 255 an error message will be displayed You may also select colors by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Select Colors dialog box that will allow you to select the desired colors graphically If any color numbers are already in the Colors data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Colors dialog box displays Weights You may set as many weights in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual weight numbers or ranges of weights For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either weight 0 or weight 2 You would enter into the Weights data entry field the string 0 2 As you can see each weight number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either weight 0 weight 1 weight 2 or weight 5 You would enter into the Weights data entry field the string 0 2 5 Ranges of weights are separated by a dash You may include any number of weight numbers and ranges of weight numbers separated by commas The range of valid weight numbers is 0 to 31 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 31 an error message will be displayed You may also select weights by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Select Weights dialog box that will allow you to select the desired weights graphically If any weigh
125. ights dialog box With this dialog box you can see the weights as well as their associated numbers This dialog box uses the Windows style of selection This means you can make selections by clicking the mouse on a single item dragging the mouse over a range of items use the Control key with the mouse click or use the Shift key with the mouse click The Select Weights dialog box uses the same selection mode as the Select Colors dialog box Refer to the section Select Colors dialog box for an explanation on making selections graphically When the OK button is pressed the Select Weights dialog box will be dismissed and the Weights data entry field on the Axiom Element Selection dialog box will be automatically populated with the selected styles If no styles are selected the Styles data entry field will be blank When the Cancel button is pressed the Select Weights dialog box will be dismissed The value of the Weights data entry field will remain unchanged Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 127 Line styles Line siles p Styles You may set as many line styles in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual line style numbers or ranges of line styles For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either style 0 or style 2 You would enter into the Line styles data entry field the string 0 2 As you can see each line style number is separated by comma
126. in the section Select Colors dialog box Width and Height Width and height represent the dimension text element s size in master units The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the dimension text properties set the color weight and font parameters as well as the width and height and their associated condition option button You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For dimension text you may only care about the color and height in which case you could leave the other parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the dimension text parameters to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a dimension is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the dimension meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the dimension will be accepted and added to the selection set provided it also meets the dimension type criteria The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of dimension text parameters in memory and closes the Dimension Text dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of dimension text parameters and closes the Dimension Text dialog box Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 109
127. include it on our distribution diskette We ll ensure you got full credit for your creation If it s really good we might even offer you a bit of cash for the right to include it All dialog boxes and palettes should be turned off before running Global File Changer Failing to turn off certain dialog boxes will cause a large number of error messages to be displayed to the screen while Global File Changer is running These messages will slow down Global File Changer by a factor of 50 to 100 Global File Changer writes numerous temporary files to the directory defined by environment variable MS_TMP To avoid problems make sure you have write access to this directory If you encounter errors not covered in this manual send a detailed email to support axiomint com Please include as much information about your operating system the problem that you are experiencing and exactly what you did when this problem occurred Also make sure to include the version number of MicroStation and Global File Changer that you are running Chapter 16 File List Editor Chapter 16 File List Edi tor The File List Editor Dialog Box Page 155 Use the File List Editor dialog box to create a list of files to be processed BSE dit File List List r Select files Path D USTN sew Drive D V Filter E Add Remove Clear Number of files selected 0 Extended File Specification lO Earliest Date Add Remove Add Remove
128. ion and the Text Height option on the Text Parameters dialog box cannot be selected at the same time Page 72 Global File Changer Rotation angle Rotation Angle gt Angle 14 000000 IV Use this option to rotate text and textnodes The angle specified in degrees is added to the current rotation of each element Remember to select the toggle on the right to activate your new angle Level Lewel Level Level 20 Level Default IV Abesoluie lewa ka V7 V8 Check the level toggle and enter a level number or name to select a level for the replacement text By default all text in the design file will be rewritten on the selected level Absolute level Relative level V7 only Use this option to control whether the level parameter is added to the element s current level or the element is forced to the specified level Symbology Use the symbology section to define new symbology for text that you select Symbology Symbology Color 9 Vi Color 1 m v Weight 0 ovj O Weight 1 Bpleve F Iv Style 0 pps E Style 1 By Level Color Use this option to set the element s color V8 users can enter 1 for bylevel Weight Use this option to set the element s weight V8 users can enter 1 for bylevel Style Use this option to set the element s style V8 users can enter 1 for bylevel Text in cells Tedin cel Use this option to control whether or not to m
129. ion considers the second axis defined during placement of the arc as the secondary axis Since it is not possible to visually tell which axis was defined second the smaller of the two axes will be considered to be the secondary axis The Condition option button This option button has five possible choices less than less than or equal equal not equal greater than or equal and greater than The selected option is applied to the number in the data entry field to the right of the option button If no value is present in the data entry field the option button is ignored Page 96 Global File Changer Set arc properties The sweep angle has a valid range of 0 to 360 degrees Partial degrees are allowed in decimal form such as 44 45 or 95 625 The primary and secondary axis values are expressed in master units Partial master units are allowed in decimal form such as 10 5 or 1 25 You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For arcs you may only care about the primary axis in which case you could leave the other two parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the sweep angle primary axis and secondary axis to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when an arc is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the arc meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the arc will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Re
130. is a useful construct when you re not sure if there will be a space between two characters in a string such as 100 t and 100 ft The use of may seem useless at first because it will match anything But it can sometimes be used in formula type strings to good effect Consider the following Search string The for is Replacement string The correct 1 for 2 is 3 This would provide for correctly handling all of these strings The tolerance for this part is 001 The grade for this road is 1 20 The color to be used for that wall is red The rate for the job is 40 hr The time for action is now Numbers Matching numbers can be frustrating because of the great variation in formats So here are some examples of some common formats 0 9 1 match whole numbers This will match any contiguous sequence of one or more digits 0 9 0 9 3 match whole numbers greater than 1 000 with or without comma separators This will match 1 000 1000 and 999 999 999 999 It will also match 1 2 3 4 5 1 and 123 It will not match 10 999 100 or 100 0 9 0 9 1 0 9 1 match only numbers having decimal fractions with or without comma separators This will match 1 0 100 001 and 1 234 567 It will also match 1 2 3 4
131. ist the multiline will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of multiline parameters in memory and closes the Multilines dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of multiline parameters and closes the Multilines dialog box Point Strings Point Strings Point String parameters Disjoint Veriora Ignore ball k Point Strings have two parameters that may be specified disjoint and number of vertices Disjoint Point strings may be placed as either disjointed or continuous If the point string is placed as disjointed all that is visible is a point for each vertex A continuous point string will look just like a line string Vertices Vertices is the number of vertices used to create the point string The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 115 Properties To set the point strings properties set the disjoint parameter and then set the vertices and its associated condition option button You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For point strings you may only care about the disjoint parameter in which case you could leave the other parameter blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt
132. le Changer automatically appends the Global File Changer directory to your MS_UCM environment variable The default keyin command file directory When you first start Global File Changer if there are any key files in your current default directory then that is the directory in which Global File Changer will search for key in files If there are no key files in your current directory Global File Changer will set the key in file directory to the directory in which changer ma is stored To make another directory your default for the next time you start Global File Changer enter the file specification you want and select Save current settings from the Options menu or have the Save settings on exit feature ON What should we call the output report file lt Start gt What should we call the cutout report tie EA Tm chien ger rep Global File Changer writes the results of each command it executes to a report file Any legal filename can be specified If the file already exists it will be overwritten The section entitled The Report File describes the report file in greater detail Press the lt Start gt button to direct Global File Changer to begin processing your files Chapter 5 Running Global File Changer Page 39 Press any key to abort the processing Once the button lt Start gt is pressed and the program is running you will have the option to stop the process by pressing any key If you press
133. lets you select elements to be modified based on their color level style weight element type class cell name text height text content font and other element properties Although the SelectBy utility provides a powerful tool for making changes to design files we suggest you use the Element Selection function of Global File Changer to control which elements are selected and manipulated SelectBy commands should only be used from a key in file when used with Global File Changer Following is an example of a Global File Changer key in file that uses the SelectBy utility to fill all shape elements with the color violet Change the fill color of all shape elements to violet selectby off makes sure nothing is selected when we start selectby type none says start off with no types being selected selectby type shape says select all shape elements selectby on says execute the select criteria we just described Load the SelectBy utility dl 1 selectby Make sure that no elements are selected when we start lectby off By default all element types are selected when we start The following command makes sure that no element types are selected when we start selectby type none Select shape type 6 elements selectby type shape The following command causes the selection criteria described above to be executed selectby on The following commands fill each of the selected elements with the color purple active fi
134. ll on active fillcolor violet change fill it tia n 10 Note The Element Selection utility of Global File Changer is very powerful yet easily definable Once a selection set has been defined using the Element Selection utility add the commands to a key file See the section called Using selection criteria in a key file for specifics about using it with a Key file Page 48 Global File Changer Chapter 8 The Custom menu Global File Changer s additional built in commands Global File Changer xi File Options Custom Selection Help Which desian f Copy design file settings from another design file i Copy dimension settings from another design file Copy level symbology from another design file Which file cont Count cells in design files fi delete c tem Merge in design files What should w Modify text c ms i progra Move global origin to center of displayable elements Replace cells Click on Start t Replace textnodes in cells based on color Report on textnodes in cells Report revision letter of each design file Scale cells Your custom command could go here Call 727 442 7774 Note The custom commands included in the V7 and V8 versions of Global File Changer are different as indicated in the following sections In addition to being able to execute MicroStation key in commands and user commands on multiple design files Global
135. ly lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the fill type and perimeter to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a complex shape is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the complex shape meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the complex shape will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of complex shape parameters in memory and closes the Complex Shapes dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of complex shape parameters and closes the Complex Shapes dialog box Complex String Complex Strings _ Complex Sting parameter Length Complex strings have only one parameter that may be specified length Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 103 Length The length is the distance measured along the entire element from one end point to the other end point Length is based on master units You may enter either a decimal number such as 1 5 or working unit values like 1 50 0 Properties To set the complex string properties set the length parameter with its associated condition option button lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the length to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a complex string i
136. ment of the 2 and 1 in the replacement string swap the locations of the numbers within the result Example 4 Here is an example of how all copyright notices could be changed from 1997 to 1998 Global File Changer Page 144 Search string copyright 1997 Replacement string 11998 2 Target string This drawing copyright 1997 by ABC Co Result string This drawing copyright 1998 by ABC Co Example 5 Here is an example of how regular expressions can handle different but similar situations all at once Search string El A Za z 10 79 1 091A IFF tT V Replacement string Elevation 1 2 Target string El 100 3 FT Result string Elevation 100 3FT Breaking the search string down from left to right it looks for The literal string E1 Possibly more letters upper or lower case this allows for El Ele Elev etc A single period this narrows it down to abbreviations Possibly some spaces because there may or may not be any here beginning of first segment At least one but possibly more digits there has to be at least one digit Possibly a decimal point if there are fractional feet then provide for a decimal point Possibly some more numbers the fractional feet if any end of first segment Possibly some spaces because there may or may not be any here also beginning of
137. ment string each on their own lines You may have multiple pairs of search and replacement strings After all the strings have been defined the Text Replacement section is closed with a string of End Replacement Parameters Example Replacement Parameters Number 10 Number 101 Fees enw Noe ema Tart iels Gre End Replacement Parameters The line Number 10 is the search string which will be replaced with Number 101 The line Initials is the search string which will be replaced with Initials GFC Page 88 Global File Changer Chapter 10 Element Sel ection Element Selection Introduction Axiom Element Selection is a very powerful function by Axiom International that is built into Global File Changer DgnCompare and Duplicate Element Remover for defining and creating selection sets With it you will be able select various element types such as Lines Line Strings Ellipses Text Text Nodes and Complex Strings You will be able to further fine tune your selection set by including specific attributes of an element such as Level Color Weight Style Line length Sweep of an Arc and Fill Color Also you will be able to refine the selection based on attributes applicable to all elements such as symbology graphic group and level Element Selection A simple example In this example we create a selection set that causes the program to skip all elements except for ellipses 1 Select Ellipse on the main dialog b
138. meter When the toggle button is depressed turned on the corresponding parameter will be modified Page 70 Global File Changer The main Modify Text dialog box S Modify Text Scale Symbology ssie M Goler 7 _ Scale i nooo M Weight 7 Rotation a Ee Angle 0 000000 1 000000 A um Use the File pulldown menu to save and retrieve files that contain sets of text parameters Note See the section entitled Text parameter file format for more information about these parameter files File Open Use this to open an existing text parameter file The parameters in the parameter file will be used to populate the Modify Text dialog boxes File Save Use this option to save the current dialog box settings to a parameter file If a file has previously been opened with the Open option the current parameters will be written to that file If no file has been previously opened you will be prompted for the parameter file name File Save as Use this option to save the current text settings to a parameter file with a different name than the one you originally opened The Parameters pulldown menu Paneis t exi par aAmebers Set extended text parameters Set tet meplacement parametrs Use this pulldown menu to access the other dialog boxes that control text and textnode modification Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 71 The Selection pulldown menu
139. move gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of arc parameters in memory and closes the Arcs dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of arc parameters and closes the Arcs dialog box Note MicroStation seems to use 6 decimal places of accuracy when calculating element values while Analyze only uses 4 decimal places This could cause problems if you are relying on the output of Analyze to determine a value such as the sweep angle or primary axis of an arc You may wish to allow some rounding tolerance particularly when dealing with curved elements such as arcs ellipses curves and b splines B Spline Curves B Spline Curves o B Spline Curve paramers Type Filled Fill color Length EE a EE ro Law Fme B spline curves have five parameters that may be specified type filled fill color length and number of poles Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 97 Type The Type option button allows you to specify between closed and open b spline curves or to accept both types Filled The Filled option button is used to determine which type of closed b spline curves to select The Ignore option will allow either filled or not filled b spline curves to be selected The Filled option will only allow filled b spline curves to be selected The Not filled option will allow only non filled b spline curves to be selected This option only
140. n button The Cell type option button is used to determine which type of cells to select The ignore option will allow either graphic or point cells to be selected The Graphic cell option will only allow graphic cells to be selected The Point cell option will allow only point cells to be selected Cell name The Cell name field allows you to specify which cells you want to select It allows you to use a series of wildcards to specify cell names The character means match any string of characters The character means match any single character Following are some examples Match any cell B Match any cell that starts with the letter B F Match any cell that ends with the letter F H E Match any cell that starts with H and ends with E H E Match any 3 letter cell that starts with H and ends with E A Any cell that starts with A or that has exactly 2 characters Blank cell name To select cells with no name click the lt Add gt button with the name field blank Page 100 Global File Changer r Cell parameters Cell type Cell name m P cell Unnamed Cell Add Remove 7 All components must be on selected levels OK Cancel Properties To set the cell properties set the cell type option button to the desired option Ignore will normally be the desired mode and then key in a single cell name or wildcard combination lt Add gt lt Remove gt The lt A
141. n memory and closes the Line Strings dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of line string parameters and closes the Line Strings dialog box Multilines Multiline s Multilines have two parameters that may be specified length and number of vertices Length The length of a multiline is measured along the element from one endpoint to the other Length is based on master units You may enter either a decimal number such as 1 5 or working unit values like 1 50 0 Vertices Vertices means the number of vertices used to create the multiline The Condition option button The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the multilines properties set the length parameter and the associated condition option button and then set the vertices and its associated condition option button You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For multilines you may only care about the length in which case you could leave the other parameter blank Page 114 Global File Changer lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the length and number of vertices to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a multiline is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the multiline meets all the criteria represented on any row in the l
142. ng selection method however it may be combined with the Shift key To select a range of colors without disturbing any other previous selections you will first need use the Control click method described above to select either the first or last color number in the range Next move the mouse to the other end of the range While holding down both the Control key and the Shift key click the data button Here is an example of using Both the Control and Shift keys to select a range of color numbers First lets select a range of colors from 1 to 10 Place the mouse on color 1 and click the data button Next hold down the shift key and click the data button on color number 10 Colors 1 through 10 should be now the only colors selected Next place the mouse on color 20 Hold down the Control key and click the data button Now colors 1 through 10 and color 20 should be selected Next move the mouse to color 30 While holding down both the Control and Shift keys click the data button Now you should see colors 1 through 10 and colors 20 through 30 selected When the OK button is pressed the Select Colors dialog box will be dismissed and the Colors data entry field on the Axiom Element Selection dialog box will be automatically populated with the selected colors If no colors are selected the Colors data entry field will be blank When the Cancel button is pressed the Select Colors dialog box will be dismissed The value of the Colors data entry field
143. o To process all design files on drive C as opposed to just the files in the root directory you would enter c dgn s Page 36 Global File Changer e Type ina series of design file names separated by semicolons Example sample dgn test dgn e Type ina series of wildcard filenames separated by semicolons Examples a dgn d dgn e Type in the name of an indirect list file An indirect list file is a plain text file that lists the names of all the design files you want to process For example if you entered filename lis and file filename lis contained testl dgn d test dgn e project1 dgn s all the matching design files would be processed e Click on the Select button and use the Edit File List dialog box to edit the list of files to be processed Use this dialog box to navigate directories enter new wildcards point amp click enter a file name etc When you add or remove files from the list and press OK edited file list will display in the design file name field Which design files do you want to process edited file list Note edited file list is not saved when Options Save current settings is selected Instead the field is reset to the factory defaults before being saved If you want to save your list use the List Export feature as described in the File List Editor section The default design file directory When you first start Global File Changer th
144. o Normal cell Set the New cell type to Shared cell Which cells should we replace with cells of different names This section allows you to define cells to replace with cells of a different name Which cells should we replace with cells of different names Existing cell name Existing cell type New cell name New cell type ESE 38 Bath n mHE 34 Same as existing cell v Existing cell name The Existing cell name field allows you to specify which cells you want to replace You may not use wildcards in this field Existing cell type Existing call type Page 60 Global File Changer The Existing cell type option button allows you to determine which type of cells to replace Both replaces the shared and non shared cells Normal cell only replaces type 2 non shared cells Shared cell replaces only shared cells New cell name The New cell name field allows you to specify the name of the cell that will replace the existing cell You may not use wildcards in this field New cell type New cell type The New cell type option button allows you to specify the type of the new cell that will replace the existing cell Same as existing cell indicates you want the new cell to be the same type as the existing cell If the existing cell was a type 2 non shared cell the new cell should also be a type 2 cell If the existing cell was a shared type cell the new cell should also be a shared cell Normal cell
145. o that they cannot be changed Unlock those same elements Move all elements on level 2 to level 4 in a series of design files Replace text in a series of design files Turn on the display of line weights in a series of design files Scale each text element in a design file about its center or insertion point Scale each cell in a design file about its center or insertion point Lots lots lots more Remember the power of Global File Changer is limited only by your imagination and your ability to write simple or not so simple key in commands or user commands to do the things you want done Global File Changer picks up where EdG leaves off EdG has some value if you re a genius with hours and hours of time on your hands In addition EdG suffers from the following disadvantages It can t scale elements It can t replace cells It can t manipulate text attributes like underlining and slanting It can t copy level symbology from design file to design file It can t attach reference files There are lots of things that EdG can t do Global File Changer can do all the above and lots more Plus Global File Changer is easy to use Most changes in fact can be accomplished using simple MDL dialog boxes Almost Free custom programming Once you own Global File Changer we can implement custom changes for you at a fraction of what it would cost to have an MDL programmer write a separate program Page 14 Global File
146. obal File Changer MS NGNAPPS lt S AXT aAximenn ma jo Axiom installed variable MS_MDL lt SAXI There may be additional entries but each entry should be unique Chapter 17 We ll Make Almost Any Enhancements You Want Page 163 Chapter 17 We ll Make Almost Any Enhancements You Want We welcome your suggestions Global File Changer is already a powerful program Nonetheless we realize that you a skilled and creative MicroStation user will think of ways in which it can be improved We invite you to tell us your ideas Axiom International didn t become the number one MicroStation third party overnight For years we ve listened to you the skilled MicroStation professional and have implemented the features you ve requested Every widely acclaimed product we ve ever developed including FileFixer evolved in this manner We d like to make Global File Changer perform every function you could ever imagine such a product being able to do We intend to make you such a satisfied Global File Changer customer that you can t wait for the next user group meeting so you can tell your friends and associates how much you like Global File Changer and how strongly you recommend it Your suggestions on how to improve Global File Changer are most welcome Page 164 Global File Changer Chapter 18 New Feature s and Fixes 3 3b 15 May 2002 Version 3 3b handles some problems that occurred in the
147. odify text and textnodes that are part of type two cells Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 73 Element types Elame Types E Aai loth Test anty Text Nodes anky Use this option to control which element types are modified Both Accept both text and textnodes Text only Accept only text elements Textnodes only Accept textnode elements only Modify about Modify About Use Modify About to control which point text elements are scaled or rotated around Insertion Modify the text about the insertion justification point Center Modify the text elements about the center of the element Note This option relies on the range block of the element being correct If the range block of the element is wrong the element may be scaled about the wrong point Lowerleft Modify the text elements about the lower left corner of the element Note Textnodes are always modified about the textnode origin lt OK gt Press the lt OK gt pushbutton when you are finished selecting text settings This function saves all the current text settings to a text parameter t xt file It then sets up the main Global File Changer dialog box to execute a command that references this file If a text parameter file has not previously been opened with one of the File pulldown menu options you will be prompted for the name of a text parameter file to which to save the current settings lt Cancel gt Press lt Cancel gt to di
148. on This expression will treat both the caret and dollar sign as literal characters and will not match the string This expression but will match This expressions To match a string containing nothing but This expression use This expression Segments in the replacement string Segments in the replacement string are indicated by the code where represents a number Segments in the search string are numbered starting from the left with the number 1 Segments are inserted into the replacement string according to their associated number Note Segment numbers in the replacement string are only allowed to have a single digit Thus there is no segment 10 or higher available The reason for this is so that segment numbers can be followed immediately by digits in the replacement string For example if you had a search string that extracted 2 segments and you wanted to insert the number 1 between them during replacement you could use 11 2 as the replacement string As you can see if more that one digit were allowed for replacement segment numbers the program would have no way of determining if you wanted to insert segment 1 followed by the digit 1 followed by segment 2 or segment 11 followed immediately by segment 2 Considering Page 142 Global File Changer target string They say ignorance is bliss search string ignorance is
149. on to remove an existing replacement parameter highlighted from the list lt OK gt Press lt OK gt to save the current replacement strings parameters in the list box lt Cancel gt Press lt Cancel gt to remove any changes made to the replacement strings parameters Page 82 Global File Changer Keyin command syntax The syntax of the command is Axiom Modify Text parameter_filename Axiom Modify Text Selection parameter_filename Axiom Modify Text Fence parameter_filename Example Axiom Modify Text map txt Axiom Modify Text Selection map txt Axiom Modify Text Fence map txt The above command would execute the Custom Modify Text command using the text parameters stored in file map txt Note With the Select or Fence modifiers with the Axiom Modify Text command the selection set or fence must be established before the command is executed If you are using Global File Changer s Element Selection facility you must use a key in file which first activates the selection set Text Parameter File Format When using the above keyin commands you will have to make your own parameter file Below you will find the various commands that you can put into your own parameter file Tip If a fence is active when the Custom Modify Text function is executed only text within the fence will be processed If a selection set is active when the command is executed selected text will be process
150. ons Page 145 the decimal point Now in the case of a whole number without a decimal point e g 100ft the 0 9 1 will catch all the digits Then the will see no subsequent decimal point and thus will match the zero occurrences And after that the Q 9 will see no more digits because they were already all matched by the T0 9 1 and thus will match the zero or more occurrences of more digits Example 6 Here is how the problem posed at the end of the Wildcard Substitution chapter can be solved using regular expressions Suppose all the streets on a map were named using the format lt direction gt lt number gt lt street gt as in North 51st Street or West 33rd Avenue But they should have been done in the format lt number gt lt street gt lt direction gt as in 51st Street North or 33rd Avenue West Search string E JLNSEW t J L0 9N 1 Hsnrt tdh A Z a z 1 0 1 Replacement string 2 3 1 Let s break this down a space start of first segment lt direction gt the lt direction gt which must start with a capital N S E or W the fourth letter must be a lower case T and it may have more than four letters This covers North South East and West end of lt direction gt segment a space start of second segment lt number gt
151. ox and type a description of your selection into the Selection criteria field as shown in the image below Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 89 Element Selection Ea File Help Element types Arc B Spline Curve B Spline Surface Cell Colors Weights Line styles Po tl Colors Weights Styles Database linkages Levels User data linkages 3 Complex Shape User data Database Complex Strin p 9 3 Selection region x1 y1 21 x2 y2 22 Levels Curve a Graphic groups Dimension a Properties Classes Ellipse L flocked Primary Line i Not locked Pattern component Line String gt New Construction Kua Selection criteria Paint String A Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed add dd Raster a ELLIPSE ONLY Shape i Update Shared Cell A m Solid ai Rem 0ye Surface A Apply Text A Text Node gt Cea Clear All 2 Click lt Add gt to add your ellipse selection to the selection set We could select more element types and add them to the selection set An element that matches any one of our selections will be processed ELLIPSE_ONLY r Selection criteria ye Description Multiple descriptions will be ORed ELLIPSE_ONLY 7 Dl Cancel Update Remove Apply Clear datid 3 After creating a selection set of one criterion we must save the set
152. p Contents from the main Global File Changer dialog box Chapter 18 New Features and Fixes Page 165 Now Global File Changer also features the ability to have a Relative or Absolute replacement of cells normal and shared You can also scale these cells by entering new values for new sizes The Custom Copy design file settings from another design file command will now also copy level names if they exist from the source design file to the target design file s The Custom Modify text function now allows searching for special characters using their hexadecimal representation We expanded the documentation on using wildcards and regular expressions in text replacement Now if you press any key while Global File Changer is running you will be given the choice to skip processing the current file or stop processing entirely Added a new Custom command named Count cells in design files Element Selection for Global File Changer now features the ability to select a block of elements within coordinates for 2D and 3D files You will be able to do things with this that you are not able to do with Fence commands We experienced a problem when using Element Selection in Global File Changer to select text by height Text of certain heights would not always be selected This has been handled We made subtle enhancements to the operation of the Element Selection box There were problems with selectin
153. ple let s say you want to process elements which are have graphic group numbers of 1 or 15 You would enter into the Graph groups data entry field the string 1 15 As you can see each graphic group number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that have graphic group numbers of 1 2 3 or 5 You would enter into the Graph groups data entry field the string 1 3 5 Ranges of graphic groups numbers are separated by a dash You may include any number of graphic group numbers and ranges of graphic group numbers separated by commas The range of valid graphic group numbers is 0 to 65535 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 65535 an error message will be displayed A graphic group number of 0 indicates no graphic group Using the number 0 in the Graphic groups data entry field will select all elements that are not graphically grouped to any other elements Properties Class All MicroStation elements have 8 properties locked new modified attributes view independent planer snappable and solid Each property may be either set or not set For example an element may be either locked or not locked or an element may be either view independent or view dependent If both options for a particular property are selected such as locked and not locked the selection for this property will be ignored Element properties are described in the MicroStation Development and Support Guide or the Intergraph Stand
154. r It is included with Global File Changer because 1 you may find it useful as written or 2 we may be able to modify it to fit your particular needs fairly easily Note This feature works on single line textnodes only Multiple line textnodes will only have its first line processed The dialog box that generates this command prompts for two pieces of information 1 the name of an ASCII input file which is described below and 2 a cellname wildcard the wildcard methods are described under the Key file command syntax section of this guide The ASCII text file There is one line containing only the design file name followed by one line containing only the cell name followed by one or more lines containing two space delimited fields 1 a color number and 2 a text string Page 62 Global File Changer The color number has to be an integer between inclusive 0 and 255 There can be multiple cells per design file the design file name need not be repeated What this command does This command searches for textnodes within the specified cells whose names match the cellname wildcard and whose color matches the color specified in the ASCII input file When it finds a match it replaces the textnode with the specified text from the ASCII input file Only textnodes within matching cells are processed Textnodes within non matching cells are not processed Textnodes outside of cells are not processed Text elements that are not
155. revision cell that is composed of a single character Enter Data Field A revision text element is a text element that consists of a single character Enter Data Field that falls in the geographic range master units where x is between 30 and 5 625 and where y is between 0 and 2 375 The revision letter is the character stored in the Enter Data Field This command reports only on the revision cell or revision text element that has the highest revision letter in that design file Note The revision letter is treated case sensitively in ASCII order A B Z a b Z meaning that a lowercase a would be treated as a higher revision than an uppercase Br Chapter 8 The Custom menu Page 65 The revision report file The revision report file is an ASCII text file The default name of the revision report file is revision rep One line is added to the revision report file for each design file that is processed Note The revision report file and the Global File Changer report file are two separate files Be careful not to give these two files the same name 1 If the highest revision letter is found in a revision cell the following information is written to the comma delimited revision report file e the design file name without extension e the design file extension without period e the name of the revision cell e the first text element e the second text element e the third text element e additional tex
156. rol the text and textnodes in your design files Use Set text selection criteria to pinpoint the elements that will be changed Modify Text File Parameters Selection Set text selection criteria Then proceed to specify your changes in the Modify Text dialogs Some of the text parameters you can control include color level weight style rotation height width scale underline slant justification use of stacked fractions character spacing line spacing font and case There are four dialog boxes associated with this command that are used to set text and textnode parameters The main Modify Text dialog box contains selections for modifying text scale rotation level symbology and text in cells Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 69 amp Modify Text In the Set text parameters dialog you will find additional text and textnode parameters such as font text size and justification The Set extended text parameters dialog box contains underline vertical and slant options The last dialog box gives you the ability to change the actual characters in the text elements To display the first dialog box select Modify text from the Custom pulldown menu on the main Global File Changer dialog box The other three dialog boxes are accessed through the Parameters pulldown menu on the main Modify Text dialog box Note A toggle button to its right controls each text para
157. s Page 169 Fix Replace Cells custom command In some cases the settings saved from a previous Replace Cells command would not be correctly retrieved from the settings file This has been fixed 3 0g 10 September 1998 An option was added to the menu to allow all the current settings to be immediately saved as the defaults An Apply button was added to the selection dialog box to allow all the elements that meet the currently selection criteria to be selected in the design The parameters for the Axiom Replace Cells command were not always being saved and restored correctly This sometimes caused the command to fail and has been fixed in this version 3 0f 7 May 1998 The standard Axiom Edit File List dialog box for selecting files to be processed was added
158. s many occurrences of the pattern as possible will be matched Probably the most common usage of the repetition codes is in matching numbers as in TO 9 1 which will match 1 33 and 23496187 alike Chapter 11 Wildcards and Regular Expressions Page 141 Segments One of the more powerful aspects of regular expressions is the ability to save pieces of the target string and rearrange them in the replacement process These pieces are referred to as segments The way segments are represented is different between the search string and replacement string Segments in the search string Segments in the search string are delimited by the and operators which may be placed around any section of the search string denotes the beginning of a segment denotes the end of a segment Note that this is the other case where literal characters the opening and closing parentheses are changed to special characters by the backslash Example When looking for filenames the regular expression dgn will match and save the base filenames for files ending in dgn Note the use of to make sure that the match for the filename starts with the next character after the space preceding the filename Use of the caret and dollar sign to match line beginnings and endings of strings must occur outside of any segments The expressi
159. s off Use the Help level command on the Options menu to accomplish this setting or have the Save settings on exit feature ON Global File Changer won t remember the change unless you do so When you want to review the help messages you can either select the Help command on the main Global File Changer window or change the help level back to Beginner using the Options menu Chapter 6 The Options menus Page 43 Options Models to process V8 only Options Custom Selection Help Automatic backup before each file Automatic filedesign after each file Edit List evennite Calant i gt Active model only All models except sheets All models Help level Save settings on exit Update screen during processing b b b gt b b Select Save curent settings Load a settings file Active model only This is the factory default When you select Active model only Global File Changer will limit its processing to the active model in all selected design files For example if you select Active model only and select sample dgn for processing then only the active model in sample dgn will be processed If sample dgn is the currently active design file displayed on your screen you can make any model within it the active model and use this option to limit processing to just that model If you are processing dgn multiple files with the Active
160. s to be added to the selection set or rejected If the complex string meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the complex string will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of complex string parameters in memory and closes the Complex Strings dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of complex string parameters and closes the Complex Strings dialog box Cones Cones Cone parcumneters Height Top radius Bottom radius Cones have three parameters that may be specified height top radius and bottom radius Height The height is measured from the center of the top to the center of the bottom Page 104 Global File Changer Top radius The top radius is radius of the top of the cone Bottom radius The bottom radius is radius of the bottom of the cone Note When placing a cone in MicroStation the bottom radius is defined first The Condition option buttons The condition option button is described in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Properties To set the cone properties set the height parameter with its associated condition option button then set the top radius and its associated condition option button and then set the bottom radius and its associated condition option button
161. s unselected by default If you select the option to Modify shared cells from the pull down menu all shared cells with the same name will be changed otherwise the default is to change only normal cells For example let s say that you have a file with cells that contain Enter Data Fields with text and you have to replace some of these cells but you want to keep the text of the old cells in your new cells It is now possible with this new option Page 58 Global File Changer Which cells should we replace with cells of the same name This section allows you to define cells to replace with cells of the same name This option could be used when your cell library has been updated and you want your design files to reflect the changes in the cell library Existing cell name The Existing cell name field allows you to specify which cells you want to replace It allows you to use a series of wildcards to specify cell names The character means match any string of characters The character means match any single character Following are some examples Match any cell B Match any cell that starts with the letter B F Match any cell that ends with the letter F H E Match any cell that starts with H and ends with E H E Match any 3 letter cell that starts with H and ends with E A Any cell that starts with A Any cell that has exactly 2 characters Existing cell type Existing cell type
162. scribed in the section The Condition option button under Arcs dialog box Line spacing Line spacing is the distance between the bottom of one line of text and the top of the next line of text Chapter 10 Element Selection Page 123 Line length Line length is the maximum number of characters per line allowed in any single text item within a text node It is set with the MicroStation main menu Element Text line length setting Valid line length values range from 1 to 255 Node number Each text node is given a number between 0 and 65535 This number is visible in views that have the text node attribute set to on Every time a new text node is placed MicroStation automatically increments the text node number Properties To set the text node properties set the font and justification parameters as well as the height width line spacing line length and node number and their associated condition option buttons You may leave any properties blank that do not apply For text nodes you may only care about the font and text height in which case you could leave the other parameters blank lt Add gt lt Remove gt lt OK gt lt Cancel gt The lt Add gt pushbutton adds the text parameters to the list box contents The list will be used to determine when a text element is to be added to the selection set or rejected If the text element meets all the criteria represented on any row in the list the text element
163. second segment FT in any combination of upper and lower case to further narrow it down end of second segment When the string is reassembled it only has 3 parts 1 the literal string Elevation 2 the first segment containing the numeric part of the measurement and 3 the second segment containing the units abbreviation in its original form Any spaces between the number and the unit abbreviation are effectively removed from the result thus adding a little uniformity The units abbreviation is put back intact regardless of the upper lower case state of either letter in it because it might have been purposefully intended to be different in different cases for some reason This could very easily be done differently if uniformity were the goal For example had the replacement string been Elevation 1 then all units abbreviations would be replaced with the foot symbol immediately following the number and with no intervening spaces All reasonable possibilities for the numeric part are covered including the possibility of a decimal point without any succeeding digits as in 123 0 9 1 0 9 deserves a bit of explanation First off it requires there to be at least one digit This would be expected in any type of measurement Then it says there may or may not be a decimal point and there may or may not be more digits after Chapter 11 Wildcards and Regular Expressi
164. settings Load a settings file Exit Global File Changer will work fine without using the Opt ions menu The Options menu simply gives you greater control over the way Global File Changer performs certain tasks Display Report If you remove the path and resource file making CHANGER RSC environment variable null it will use Changer rsc as your default when you reload Global File Changer CHANGER RSC environment variable will only recognize one resource file at a time Options Automatic backup before each file Options Audonmabic backup betore each tbe As protection against user error Global File Changer offers the option of automatically backing up each design file before processing it The advantage of turning this option on is that if your changes don t turn out the way you want them to you can recover the previous version of each design file The disadvantage is that the backup version of each design file takes up just as much disk space as the original design file Setting this option to yes has the same effect as adding a backup command to the beginning of every key in command file The backup file will have the same name as the original file with an extension of bak It will be located in the directory defined by the MS_BACKUP variable If this variable is not defined it will be located in the same directory as the original file Options Automatic filedesign after each file ce Au
165. should we process This command was written for a specific customer It is included with Global File Changer because 1 you may find it useful as written or 2 we may be able to modify it to easily fit your particular needs The dialog box that handles this function prompts for two pieces of information 1 the name of an output report file which is described below and a cellname or wildcard the wildcard methods are described under the Key file command syntax section of this guide What this command does This command searches for cells whose names match the cellname or wildcard When it finds a match it writes one line to the report file for each non empty textnode in that cell A non empty textnode is one that contains at least one text element Each line consists of the color number and text of the first text element in the textnode Only textnodes within matching cells are processed Textnodes within non matching cells are not processed Textnodes outside of cells are not processed Text elements that are not part of a textnode are not processed The output report file The color number is written in columns 1 9 The first text element in each matching cell is written out starting in column 17 Ifa textnode in a matching cell has more than one text element only the first one is reported Note The Report on text nodes in cells report file and the Global File Changer report file are two separate files Be careful
166. smiss all Modify Text dialog boxes Page 74 Global File Changer Parameters Text parameters dialog box Te xt Parameters tt F i C 5 a 255 EZA r The Parameters pulldown menu Use the Parameters pulldown menu to bring up other Modify Text dialog boxes Set extended text parameters Select this option to access the Extended Text Parameters dialog box Set text replacement parameters Select this option to access the Replace Text Parameters dialog box Help Help on text parameters Note When the help dialog box is displayed you may get help for any specific parameter by clicking on the dialog item related to the desired parameter Use this option to open the help dialog box and display the first page of help for the Text Parameters dialog box Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 75 Font Use this option to control text and textnode s font The option button is automatically populated with the currently available fonts Select the desired font from the option button or key in the desired font number in the text field Note It s okay to key in a font number that is not on the list Text just Use this option to set the justification to be applied to text elements Node just Use this option to set the justification to be applied to textnodes This parameter is automatically applied to any text contained within textnodes Fractions Definition Fractions are
167. t s files from your hard disk drive Go to your Axiom Base Directory by using Windows Explorer or File Manager or DOS or something similar Each Axiom product is in its own directory under the Axiom Base Directory EN Exploring Axiom File Edit View Go Favorites Tools Help oe fa amp aim A Back Forward Up Cut Copy Paste Undo Delete Address E C Axiom r x es oooh ss Des oo o edee a Axiom File Folder 0142142 activez File Folder 0142142 E aximenu File Folder 0142142 cellMar File Folder 01 21 42 cellRand File Folder 01 2142 changer File Folder O1 21 2 checker File Folder 01 2172 compare E editMenu File Folder 01 21 2 For example CellManager is in the cellmgr subdirectory and Cell Randomizer is in the cellrand subdirectory To delete the files of an individual Axiom product just Chapter 3 Uninstalling Page 21 delete its specific subdirectory To delete all the files of all Axiom products delete the entire Axiom Base Directory and all of its product subdirectories If you have other Axiom products but are removing one product you don t need to remove this product s name from the Axiom menu If you remove that program s directory of files from your disk but leave the entry on the Axiom menu and a user selects that program from the Axiom menu they will get a text style dialog box which will describe t
168. t elements 2 If the highest revision letter is found in a revision text element the same format is used except the name of the revision cell is left blank and there are no additional text elements 3 If a design file contains neither a revision cell nor a revision text element the Axiom Report Revision command searches for a cell named ISSUED ISSUEM or REDRAW The name of the found cell will be written to the revision report file in the format given under 1 above The revision letter field will be left blank If more than one such cell is found the first encountered will be used 4 If no such cell is found the string none is written to the cellname field and the revision letter field will be left blank MSBATCH Example msbatch c axiom changer changer ma k c test key key c test dgn s Key file command syntax The syntax of this command is Axiom Report Revision report_file Example Axiom Report Revision revision rep Following is a sample output file M10010 s00 REV2L V ECO 22497 SD 11 JAN 01 ADD STYLE P ADD DIM 318 315 Page 66 Global File Changer MINTTR NN REV2T H RCOOH M12300 s01 ISSUED M12325 s01 REV2L A ECO 22200 KB 17 NOV 00 ADD NOTE 1 22676A N 2 FER N1 TTS ADDED AS M14033 s01 REV2L A ECO 21100 REVA 08 MAR 00 17 125 WAS 17 50 m14083 s01 REV2L C ECO 20749 ADD 004 TOLERANCE 13 SEP 00 DMN M9001 s01 ISSUED M9261 s01 REV2L A ECO 1800
169. t numbers are already in the Weights data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Weights dialog box displays Page 108 Global File Changer Fonts You may set as many fonts in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual font numbers or ranges of fonts For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either font 0 or font 2 You would enter into the Fonts data entry field the string 0 2 As you can see each font number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either font 0 font 1 font 2 or font 5 You would enter into the Fonts data entry field the string 0 2 5 Ranges of fonts are separated by a dash You may include any number of font numbers and ranges of font numbers separated by commas The range of valid weight numbers is 0 to 255 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 255 an error message will be displayed You may also select fonts by using the right arrow pushbutton This will call up the Fonts dialog box that will allow you to select the desired fonts graphically If any font numbers are already in the Fonts data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Fonts dialog box displays The Fonts dialog box The Fonts dialog box displays a list of all the currently available fonts This dialog box uses the Windows style selection mode This selection mode is described
170. t type name on the description line If you add another element of the same type but different symbology you must give it a unique name e g line linel line2 etc When you are done selecting and adding to the list all elements you want to process select the File menu and save your selection criteria press lt OK gt You may define several search criteria and save them to a file This file may then be used to select the same sets later Each selection is given a descriptive name and then added to a list of descriptions The Selection Criteria section of this guide describes these functions in detail lt OK gt Press this button to accept all of your selections and return with those selections to the application that called Axiom Element Selection in the first place lt Cancel gt Press this button to cancel all of the selections you may have made and return to the application that called Axiom Element Selection Page 94 Global File Changer Element Selection Element Types Element pes unc Spline Cure pi FE RE Shape Shared Cell So Sutac Text lal Text Node There are 21 element types that you can include in a selection set To include an element type in the search criteria select the appropriate name in the Element types item This item uses the Windows style selection mode This selection mode is described in the Select Colors dialog box section You may select multiple element typ
171. the target file s Let s say you select All models and select merge c sample dgn into d dgn In that case the active model from sample dgn will be merged into all models in all files matching dgn Page 54 Global File Changer How to merge one design file into a group of design files Let s say you want to merge the design file ext ra dgn into all the design files in the current default directory Just select the Merge in design files command then specify the name of the design file you want to merge into other design files Then enter dgn as the design filename wildcard on the main Global File Changer dialog box How to merge a group of design files into a single design file Let s say you want all the design files in directory usr ext ra to be added into design file xyz dgn Select the Custom Merge in design files command and then tell Global File Changer that the design files you want to merge into other design files are usr extra dgn Then enter xyz dgn as the design filename wildcard on the main Global File Changer dialog box How to merge a group of design files into a group of design files Let s say you want all the design files in directory usr ext ra to be added into design files in directory usr mapping Select the Custom Merge in design files command and then tell Global File Changer that the design files you want to merge into other design files are usr extra dgn Then
172. tomatic backup betore each tile Automatic tiledesiqn afer each file Page 42 Global File Changer Note Filedesign is a MicroStation keyin command The GUI version of this is File Save settings One of the powerful features of Global File Changer is its ability to change the active parameters of dozens of design files at a time Many of the settings Global File Changer can change are the type that are saved only when you execute a filedesign command For example if you brought up a design file keyed in LV 4 4 and then exited the design file the net result would be no change You temporarily changed the active level to 44 but since you exited without saving your active parameters with a filedesign command the change was not permanently recorded in the design file Setting this option to yes has the same effect as adding a filedesign command to the end of every key in command file Since the filedesign command is so important this option was added as a convenience Options Help level Options Auiometc backup before each file Aulomoahc hledesigna alter each hilet Help bevel Valid selections are Beginner and Expert When you first start using Global File Changer each time the program is started a series of help windows pops up to briefly explain how Global File Changer works After you ve used Global File Changer for a little while you ll probably want to turn these message
173. us types of elements in the plain clock drawing change colors and weights Also if you examine the elements you will see that each type of element has been moved to its own level Page 28 Global File Changer When processing is complete click lt Display report gt Display Report The report file will be similar to the following Global File Changer 8 0a 5 Aerial 2002 2 44 pm Design files c program files axiom v8 changer sample clock dgn Command file c program files axiom v8 changer sample clock key Automatic backup No Automatic filedesign No Models to process Active model only Update screen during processing No Licensing information Temporary license expires 3 June 2002 c program files axiom v8 changer sample clock dgn After initializing design file Model Defeult open the clock selection file AXIOM SELECT OPEN c program files axiom v8 changer sample clock sel select the lines AXIOM SELECT ELEMENTS lines change the lines co green change color wt 2 change weight lv LinesLevel change level WOAATKDUNHPWNE WDIDORWNHHEO VYY S select the numerals AXIOM SELECT ELEMENTS numbers change the numerals co red Chapter 4 Quick Start Page 29 change color wt 3 change weight lv NumbersLevel change level select the face AXIOM SELECT ELEMENTS face change the face co blue change color wt 5 change weight lv FaceLevel change level
174. ve the following outcome This shape contains one thousand pixels This shape is blue Example SB Replacement Strings il Ea Parameters oe Help Search string Replacement string String Format Regular Expression This is a single line This is not na single line Wildcard Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 81 If you have a multi line text node you can add a line at any point by replacing any existing line with new lines including the n line separator as in the example above String Format There are two choices here Regular Expression and Wildcard You can do a simple replacement of text using wildcard The code in the image below will change the word in to the word on without changing any other part of the matching text string With Wildcard you can also use and to indicate any string or any character respectively Search string Replacement string String Format Wildcard in on Wildcard Regular Expression is the powerful string matching system that was developed in conjunction with UNIX Wildcard and regular expression options are very powerful in search and replacement fields These are explained fully in the Wildcard and regular expression section of this guide lt Add gt Use this option to add strings to the Replacement strings list box lt Update gt Use this option to modify an existing replacement parameter lt Remove gt Use this opti
175. will be accepted and added to the selection set The lt Remove gt pushbutton removes the highlighted row from the list The lt OK gt pushbutton saves the list of text node parameters in memory and closes the Text Nodes dialog box The lt Cancel gt pushbutton rejects any changes made to the list of text node parameters and closes the Text Nodes dialog box Element Selection Symbology Options In this section we ll describe all of the symbology options from the main Axiom Element Selection dialog box Page 124 Global File Changer Colors Weights Line ses sae linkages n Betabace teed ims aoe a Properties Classes Locked Primary Mot lockad Pattem componeri How Construction Colors Colors on You may set as many colors in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual color numbers or ranges of colors For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either color 1 color 7 or color 9 You would enter into the Colors data entry field the string 1 7 9 As you can see each color number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either color 1 color 2 color 3 color 8 or color 10 You would enter into the Colors data entry field the string 1 3 8 10 Ranges of colors are separated by a dash You may include any number of color numbers and ranges of color numbers separated by comm
176. will remain unchanged V8 only V8 users can select bylevel from the Select Color dialog box or type it in if desired Page 126 Global File Changer Weights Weights Weights You may set as many weights in your selection criteria as you need To simplify the process you may use individual weight numbers or ranges of weights For example let s say you want to process elements that are drawn with either weight 0 or weight 2 You would enter into the Weights data entry field the string 0 2 As you can see each weight number is separated by comma Now suppose you want to process elements that are drawn with either weight 0 weight 1 weight 2 or weight 5 You would enter into the Weights data entry field the string 0 2 5 Ranges of weights are separated by a dash You may include any number of weight numbers and ranges of weight numbers separated by commas The range of valid weight numbers is 0 to 31 If you enter a number outside the range of 0 to 31 an error message will be displayed You may also select weights by using the Weights pushbutton This will call up a new dialog box that will allow you to select the desired weights graphically If any weight numbers are already in the Weights data entry field they will automatically be selected when the Select Weights dialog box displays V8 only V8 users can select bylevel from the Select Weights dialog box or type it in if desired Select we
177. xt or textnode element You will be prompted to select an element from the design file Once an element is selected you will be prompted to accept the selected element When the element is accepted the dialog boxes will be populated with the text or textnodes parameters lt OK gt Press the lt OK gt pushbutton to save the current parameters in the Text Parameters dialog box and then dismiss the Text Parameters dialog box lt Cancel gt Press lt Cancel gt to dismiss the Text Parameters dialog box along with any changes made in the dialog box Extended text parameters dialog box Extended Text Parameters T Spacing E 200000 Use undariing persmetar E Character Spacing 0 000000 Use intencharecter spacing Slant 0 000000 Use slant parameter T E Chapter 9 Custom Modify Text Page 77 The Parameters pulldown menu Use the Parameters pulldown menu to bring up other Modify Text dialog boxes Set text parameters Select this option to access the Text Parameters dialog box Set text replacement parameters Select this option to access the Replace Text Parameters dialog box Help Help on extended text parameters Note When the help dialog box is displayed you may get help for any specific parameter by clicking on the dialog item related to the desired parameter Use this option to open the help dialog box and display the first page of help for the Extended Text Parameters dialog box
178. y Dimension Parameters feature stopped working The errant module was rectified without causing any negative effect so the Copy Dimension Parameters feature once again is working Given specific settings the Axiom Element Selection module would fail This situation was safeguarded against making this module very robust 3 0h 12 November 1998 A change in a low level function of Copy Dimension Parameters prevented it from actually doing the job of Copying Dimension Parameters This custom feature was reworked so that it performs as expected Under certain specific conditions with specific SEL files Global File Changer would MDL abort in selscan mc line 2168 The error in the Axiom Element Selection Module was tracked down and fixed New Apply button in Selection Dialog Box All elements in the active design file which match a selection criteria can be immediately selected simply by clicking this button New Regular Expression Text Replacement Text search and replacement can now be done using either simple wildcard substitution or with regular expressions Regular expressions are an extremely powerful and versatile tool for manipulating text New Save settings on exit menu selection You can now tell Global File Changer to save all your settings automatically when the application exits instead of having to remember do it manually each time you want the settings saved Chapter 18 New Features and Fixe
179. y with the mouse click The Select Line Styles dialog box uses the same selection mode as the Select Colors dialog box Refer to the section Select Colors dialog box for an explanation on making selections graphically Page 128 Global File Changer Custom line styles The custom line styles list box also uses the Windows style of selection Refer to the section Select Colors dialog box for an explanation on making selections graphically When the OK button is pressed the Select Line Styles dialog box will be dismissed and the Line styles data entry field on the Axiom Element Selection dialog box will be automatically populated with the selected styles If no styles are selected the Styles data entry field will be blank When the Cancel button is pressed the Select Line Styles dialog box will be dismissed The value of the Line styles data entry field will remain unchanged Database linkages Cesta berse linkages Database You can select elements based on attribute linkages although you must select all element types Attribute linkages are placed on MicroStation elements to give intelligence to the elements by associating database records to the elements You may set the attribute linkage values by using the Database pushbutton This will call up a new dialog box that will allow you to select the desired linkage values Select database dialog box Select Database Database linkages 2 DM

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