Hi All We have recently been getting queries into the help desk asking how to bring certain surveys into MX that aren't listed in MX>File>Import. The tool to use for this is the Data Acquisition tool. Data Acquisition compiles information from the following sources: Field Data Formats: InRoads Text Import Wizard (.tiw) InRoads Intermediate (.fwd) GEOPAK (.obs) Tripod Data Systems (.rw5 & .raw) Leitz-Sokkia SDR33 (.sdr) Trimble Link ...

Hi All. First Post of the New Year. This post will explain the process of applying hatching to cut and fill areas of a design for plans and longsections using input files. The images below show what will be achieved. For this process I’ll be using an example design included in the attached genio file ( EXAMPLE GENIO.txt ). The models used are detailed below. Design model – DESIGN UG Ground model – GROUND UG Plan Cut and Fill Hatching...

All, For those who turned up to the E-Seminar last week, many apologies. Some unforseen circumstances caused us to postpone. Anyway, the E-seminar will now be this Thursday at 14.30. Here is a reminder of the new date and subject: Thursday the 17 th of November at 2.30pm Data Import, Data Acquisition and Data Export The agenda for the session: Data Import ASCII Files including Genio, Text Files, LandXML , LIDAR DWG / DGN / DXF OS Point Cloud Data...

Hello All We've completed the recordings of the last e-seminar, well to be honest all the hard work has been done by my esteemed colleague Mr Dean Rickwood. So many thanks to Dean. The live session was attended by over 50 users, so thanks to those who did. If you didn't catch it, you can view the recordings. Dean has split the recording up in to two chunks to make it more manageable for you to deal with I've had a few problems trying to...

Hi All, We get asked about how a Style Set is going to look, or how to specify a survey and how to get it to look how you want it to. The start of this is really your Survey Style Set. This dicatates string naming and the colours and styles that its going to produce. Sometimes we get asked this question from the other direction. I've been sent a style set, but I've no idea what its going to produce. To resolve all these problems with how a...

Hi All, Just wanted to let you know that the first of this seasons E-Seminars is This Thursday 6th October at 2.30 pm. Dean Rickwood will be presenting a seminar on using some of the CAD tools within MX Standalone. They have been around since MX XM, but its still something that come up at User Group meetings, that users don't know what the CAD tools do, and how they can be used day to day. We appreciate that AutoCAD has long been the more prevalent...

Hello All, As of today, we have a new telephone system which we hope will make it easier for us to interact with you. The new Phone Number is a Free Phone Number and for the UK is : 0808 101 9246 You will then enter a menu option from which you can choose how to contact us. The levels are as follows, (Existing issues only use the top level) : Level 1, New or Existing Issues. For new issues press 1, for existing issues, press 2 and have you ST number...

Hi Everyone. Sorry for being a bit quiet on the Blog recently, but now we've got the User group Meetings out of the way, I hope to be more active on here. Couple of things to talk about. Firstly, thanks to everyone who attended the User Group Meetings. I hope that you gained something beneficial from them. We certainly did. We hope to have some notes to publish on them soon. I'll probably put them on my Blog here. Thanks particularly to all...

Hi Guys, Here are the dates and locations for the MX User Group Meetings in May / June 2011. For more details, please drop me a mail You should have already started recieving emails about this. As usual, there will be a mix of Interactive Debate, Problem Solving, Helpful Hints and Tips, and Training and News on MX Development, and as usual, its Free. North East, Parsons Brinckerhoff Newcastle Thursday 5th May - Simon Pegg Scotland, BEAR Scotland,...

Hi Guys Something I thought you all ought to be aware of. You can now run AutoTrack inside of MX V8i Standalone. I've attached a couple of PDF's about this, and it is actually soemthing you have been able to do for a while. For some we reason we haven't publicised it too much. For those of you who don't know, AutoTrack is a swept path analysis tool made by Savoy Software. Any questions, please get in touch. Simon

Hi All, Sorry its been a bit quiet on the Blogging front recently. Not sure where the end of last year went........ The phone system changes haven't come in to effect yet, so pelase keep using the existing number. I will be posting up a few more video clips soon, including the last couple of E-Seminars. We will also have another e-seminar shortly, topic still to be decided upon. Also we're starting to consider the next round of user group...

Hi Guys, After using the same phone sytem for about 20 years, we are finally getting around to updating it. In the near future, we will be moving to a new Voice Over IP telephone system. From your point of view for the actual call, there won't be any noticeable difference (we hope), but the existing 01403 217749 will be changing. When the changeover occurs the new number from the UK will be 0808 101 9246 and from Ireland 1800 948 368. Please note...

Guys, Here's part two of the User Interface E-Seminar recording. Once again, thanks to Dean Rickwood for presenting and producing the video. More coming soon, although I am On Leave next week, so there's not likely to be anything then !!! As always, any queries or problems with this or anything else, please get in touch. simon.pegg@bentley.com or 01403 217749. Simon

Hi All, The last one seemed to go down well. I've not had any negative comments about downloading and viewing the Video, so I'm assuming it was all OK. I'm going to try and roll these out fairly regularly, as we have a small back catelogue on various topics. If there's anything you specifically want to know about, let me know. Again, any comments greatfully received. Email me at simon.pegg@bentley.com or comment below. This video clip...

Hi All, Just a quick post to test something out. We have reorded the last E-Seminar that Dean did, and are thinking of what is the best way to make them available. I'm going to try and attach one to my Blog, and see what the download time is like. They can be quite big about 10MB, so they are not email-able. Any feedback would be helpful. Si Update : You can either click on it to watch it, or right hand mouse button to save the wmv Any feedback...

Hi All, Every so often, we get asked about annotating Cross Sections with Services. Its not the easiest thing to do, but with some thought on string and model naming and masking, and an input file, some decent results can be obtained. You can also use it for annotating Drainage runs on cross sections too. The example below is a simple example, where all the services are in the same model, but have different string names for different service types...

Hi All, Well, its a year since I started my blog, and its had over 5000 hits. Thanks very much for stopping by and reading ! Just wish a few more of you would comment !! I'd like to have posted more often, but the day to day support work keeps myself, Dean and Jim (who is also my proof reader) busy. I have a few ideas for forthcoming posts, but I'd really like to hear what you guys would like me to post about. Pick a subject, anything you...

Hi All, MX V8i SELECT Series 2 UK is available to download now. Actually, it was available to download start of last week, but I was on leave when it went live, so you may already know this ! Anyway, you can get it now. Login in to SELECT and use the following search criteria :- Product : Bentley MX Download Category : SELECT Released Products Files Posted Within : Last 6 Months Its called Bentley MX V8i United Kingdom. Build 08.11.07.427. Posted...

Hi Guys, We often get asked about producing rendered images and fly throughs etc, and indeed we have shown similar things at User group Meetings in the past. I got asked again today to produce some examples. Attached below are some stills from an AVI I produced from an MX model. All of this was done using MX V8i Standalone, so you have the tools to do exactly what you see below. Overall 3d View of the Models View 1 near the Start, bottom right of...

Hi All, Just wanted to let you know we have had a bit of a purge on Service Ticket closures. So it may be that you are getting / already received a number of emails from us at Bentley regarding Service Tickets. Mostly it will be about Service Tickets we have resolved, but just not completed by closing the ST down. Although some may be about outstanding issues. They also may go back some time too, maybe to September 2009. Quicker closure of ST's...

Hi All, I posted a while back this was due sometime during the summer. Well its imminnent now, probably in the next couple of weeks. I'll post again when its available to download. One thing to mention is that this version WILL support AutoCAD 2011 So at MX v8i SS2 you'll be able to run MX in AutoCAD 2011, and Import, Export and Reference 2011 DWG;'s no problem (despite what you may have heard). Simon

Hello. Just wanted to publiciise another eSeminar we're running about MX. Actually Dean Rickwood is doing all the work for it. Its going to cover anything and everything to do with the MX V8i Interface. Much of it you should be familiar with, but we do hear time and again, about users wanting to know what everything does, and how to improve their work flow and hence productivity. This eSeminar will help. Its a compilation of stuff from the last...

Hi All, Something that just came up on support, about Isopachytes. Did you know you can take an Isopachyte Triangulation in to the Surface Analysis Wizard ? If you do you cn quickly and easily generate Isopachyte Contours and Isopachyte Level Bands, ie areas of equal depths. Ideal for simple overlay jobs. Will try to posting a bit more regularly. If there is anything specifc you want to see, either reply on the Blog, or email me. simon.pegg@bentley...

Hi all, Somthing that came out at the User Group Meetings, was the lack of notcie we gave on forthcoming software releases. You all understood that it was dificult for us to give a specific date for a release, due to many factors affecting the release, but wanted at least a rough time scale some time in advance. This was so you could plan installs and upgrades, and not find out a few days after upgrading, that we had released an update. So here's...

Hi All, Just spoke with someone who wanted to get an idea of catchment areas on his design. They weren't aware of the Catchment Areas option within the Surface Analysis Wizard. Its a very handy tool, and after going through it, it was exactly what he wanted. I'm sure a lot have people have seen and used it but just to remind you.... Go in to Analysis>Surface Analysis and pick the model you wnat to analyse. It triangulates it in the back...