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SIG Workshop: MicroStation – Annotating Title Blocks in Drawing Borders

Link to On24 presentation

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!)