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Hi Jon,

I Apologize that the link previously supplied no longer works, as Jan mentioned the Bentley Event calendar has been retired.

I have located a course on the LEARN server that covers the content originally requested. (The 2nd Video demonstrates X,Y, Z end points of lines)

This course is not the Generating Advanced Reports which was 1 hour duration, this course is more targeted to the user question (2 videos of 11 mins each).

This content can be found in the course shown below and additionally, searching for ‘SIG’ in CONNECT Advisor will also present various options.

Reporting on DGN Elements in MicroStation CONNECT Edition

In this video, we will create a linear feature, a silt fence, drawn on a specific level, in our main design file.

Then we need to quantify that fence. A report will be created that will look for all lines on a specific level, then display its current level and its linear total distance.

https://learn.bentley.com/app/VideoPlayer/LinkToIndividualCourse?LearningPathID=108940&CourseId=113039&MediaID=5005886

In this video, run a report on DGN Elements, specifically a parcel boundary, and place a report onto our sheet.

https://learn.bentley.com/app/VideoPlayer/LinkToIndividualCourse?LearningPathID=108940&CourseId=113040&MediaID=5005887

HTH

Sheila

Hi Sheila,

thanks a lot for your explanation and shared links :-)

Sheila M said:

the Bentley Event calendar has been retired.

It's a big shame that fast functional solution was removed and replaced by so amateurs, slow and overall dysfunctional solution (it's not even calendar) :-(

My experience is that the most of my customer stopped to check the calendar for planned events (because they just do not understand, how it works and the reaction is so slow), and also have huge problems accessing recorded sessions (no way to find anything quickly).

Have you an idea how simple and fast is to find both scheduled and recorded sessions e.g. for Autodesk or ESRI software?

Sheila M said:

searching for ‘SIG’ in CONNECT Advisor will also present various options.

The problem with Advisor is that it's badly designed, slowing down MicroStation, piece of software with many bugs (when some from them were even marked as WAD), probably designed by somebody who never was in engineering practice. No benefits visible for users, not communicated/promoted, plus crucial functionality missing.

So even when it could by potentially used to search web(s), the first thing that users often do, is to uninstall Advisor or at least change its configuration to be not loaded.

With regards,

  Jan

Hi Sheila,

thanks a lot for your explanation and shared links :-)

Sheila M said:

the Bentley Event calendar has been retired.

It's a big shame that fast functional solution was removed and replaced by so amateurs, slow and overall dysfunctional solution (it's not even calendar) :-(

My experience is that the most of my customer stopped to check the calendar for planned events (because they just do not understand, how it works and the reaction is so slow), and also have huge problems accessing recorded sessions (no way to find anything quickly).

Have you an idea how simple and fast is to find both scheduled and recorded sessions e.g. for Autodesk or ESRI software?

Sheila M said:

searching for ‘SIG’ in CONNECT Advisor will also present various options.

The problem with Advisor is that it's badly designed, slowing down MicroStation, piece of software with many bugs (when some from them were even marked as WAD), probably designed by somebody who never was in engineering practice. No benefits visible for users, not communicated/promoted, plus crucial functionality missing.

So even when it could by potentially used to search web(s), the first thing that users often do, is to uninstall Advisor or at least change its configuration to be not loaded.

With regards,

  Jan