MasterPlanner: a MicroStation Application

MasterPlanner™ is an AddIn or application (App) that adds functionality to Bentley Systems MicroStation^® CONNECT. It's a tool for architects, landscape designers, planners and technicians.

FlexiTable Reports

MasterPlanner delegates the harvesting of its data to FlexiTable™ CONNECT Edition.

FlexiTable provides a familiar worksheet presentation. It permits sorting and filtering of data. It provides aggregated information, including a count of harvested data and the sum of areas and perimeters.

MasterPlanner Reports

MasterPlanner does a very specific job, which is to annotate shapes and record their areas. It makes it easy to create Reports from those same data. When you want a report, MasterPlanner sends a request to FlexiTable to display a worksheet. The worksheet displays a combination of MasterPlanner's data and DGN element properties area and perimeter.

You can report both the measured area and a converted area, using different metrics. That is, if your DGN model master units are metres, then the reported area is square metres. If you choose in addition to show an alternative area measurement, such as square feet, then those values can also be added to your report.

The report illustrated below shows the formatted area and perimeter measurements in the DGN model's master units, which are metres. The report also shows alternative metrics where the alternative area is shown in hectares and the alternative perimeter is show in feet.

MasterPlanner Reports and Aggregates

FlexiTable shows DGN elements tagged with MasterPlanner data in a worksheet. The worksheet summarises those data, together with aggregate calculations of numeric values …

MasterPlanner Tables (Schedules)

MasterPlanner makes it easy to create Tables from those same data. Use FlexiTable's Place Table menu to create a table for placement in your DGN model. The table is created and you then place the table in the usual way as a DGN element.

MasterPlanner works with MicroStation Reports & Tables

MasterPlanner can also delegate the manufacture of its reports and tables to MicroStation. MicroStation provides an Item Types reporting tool. From the reporting tool, you can create a table for placement as a DGN graphic element.

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