SIG Workshop: MicroStation – Annotating Title Blocks in Drawing Borders
This presentation walks through instructions found in the Bentley Communities: Creating Title block with Item type + EC Expression +Texts
1:45 Samir Talks (intro)
6:45 Presentation starts
7:00 Tags are being deprecated
10:00 "+/- Item Types
11:00 What are Item Types
13:00 Tying the Item Type as a Property to a text field
13:35 Tech Details of Item Types
16:55 Title Blocks
21:00 Communities: Creating Title Block with Item Type
21:45 "The Title Block itself…"
22:15 rather than a cell, you can use individual elements as your border sheet"
23:10 Sheet Model: does it have to be a Sheet Model
25:01 Item Types in the Border sheet
25:45 Item Types can be in a DGNLIB or locally
26:22 You can Import from the DGNLIB
Need to be active (or embeded) in file
27:10 exporing the avialable Item Types
28:20 how the expressions are evaluated at run-time
use last valid value & Falure Value
30:00 expresssions
31:20 Named Expressions
34:30 Available Symbols "The Essential Help of Expressions"
36:06 Online Help Expressions
39:10 Expression: ActiveFile.
41:00 Expression Builder
44:40 Creating a New Item Type
47:40 Using Item Types in a a file
49:20 Using Explorer to Attach Item
51:40 Step 3 in the blog
52:50 Text f(x) > Field Types > File Properties > custom stuff (Item Types!)
