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Status Needs review
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 17, 2023

Power Selector Command Interface

I propose the ability to control the Power Selector tool completely by Keyin and VBA for automation purposes. The ability to manually select by Text/Dim style with the mouse is nice but would it would be very useful to control this dialog by means of automation for batch processing of files for many reasons.

Example, I have many files from a project that need to be converted to dgn and cleaned up to meet the client CAD standards. The export contains many text styles and yes, I can remap the elements to the correct client text style via keyin but the text is shifting and I cannot select all of those elements that were just changed unless code is involved.

If the Power Selector was controlled via keyin, I could select all elements with incorrect style, create a named group, remap them to the correct style then move the elements back visually using that named group. This is just a single example but I could think of many scenarios where we could use this feature.

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2023

    Microstation VBA already has ElementEnumerator + ActiveModelReference.SelectElement, could you provide more details what stuff not working with VBA?

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  • Guest
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    Nov 3, 2023

    I concur. I have been trying over years now for Bentley to free up the Power Selector so I can use it on my mouse because the cursor gets stuck in individual mode. I can program a hot key or the button Assignments dialogue to my mouse and it will run...once. If I press the programmed mouse button it will revert to the individual mode and freeze there. Pressing the button again will not rerun the command. I have been at this from multple directions and still no joy. You're sploiling your own party Bentley. Could you please fix this? I have multiple tickets on this subject.