Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Extacting info from Fitted Sections

Well seeing that the new Microstation V8i has these new / updated section views I wanted to see what info we can extract from it via the VB/VBA api.

The answer is not much, if anything at all (that's Bentley's official answer as well) so I though I would blog about it to see if anyone else had any 'crazy' ideas...

Here is a screenshot of a wall and door with a fitted section cutting the wall to 1/2 height (approx) and I'm trying to access information regarding the bounding box, section height and which plane the section is in.


Trouble is none of these attributes are available via the vb API or even appear in great detail inside the MDL documentation (unless I've missed it) so I'm not sure how to proceed.



This last picture is more for clarification that anything, how to tell at what depth the green arrow is, and how to tell if the toggles (blue mushrooms) have been moved or set to unclipped?

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