• Advanced Project Explorer - Configuration Variable Links

                        When you are working on a project, you work with many files, designs and models. Have you ever been irked when you have to flip through many of these files to get to the right model, and correct view? I bet you have experienced this!

    Agreed, Project Explorer can become a central resource to organize your data, but wouldn't be useful to have something simple that helps you do some organization?

    If your answer…

  • How Can I create custom detailing symbols?

                    In this blog, I'm going to explain how to create a detailing symbol style. Out of the box, ustation.dgnlib comes with Default style. It refers to cells like SectionBubble, SectionArrowWing, etc., which are also in ustation.dgnlib. These cells contain Place Holder Link Property fields (Fields provide the necessary information related to Drawing ID, Sheet Name, Sheet Number, Drawing Name, etc.). When you create a new detailing…
  • Create New Sheet by Placing Callout

                     In my last blog http://communities.bentley.com/Other/Old_Site_Member_Blogs/Peer_Blogs/b/mark_penns_blog/archive/2009/09/23/saved-views-center-of-universe-for-sheet-composition.aspx  I wrote about "Create Dynamic View" dialog. In this blog, I will show you how to invoke and use this dialog while placing a callout.

    Why should you use"Create Dynamic View" dialog?

                     If you want to create an…

  • Scales in MicroStation

                    In MicroStation, there are various scales that are relevant to the process of drawing creation. I will try to brief about each scale so as to know how these scales are useful for drawing creation process & also how they are correlated to each other. Below is the list of scales, you would be interested to know about.

    1. Active Scale
    2. Linestyle Scale
    3. Annotation Scale
    4. Detail Scale
    5. Reference Scale
    6. True…