• import custom menus as contextual commands

    One of our clients built custom menus in V8i and I have already imported them into a custom tab in CONNECT. I would like to have these items as contextual menus though. I cannot find a tool, or method, that will allow me to do this. Any recommendations…
  • Instant Messenging

    PW would truly be the ultimate in collaboration if there was an IM client built into it. This gives us the ability to know presence of project teammates, etc, who are working for different firms, agencies, etc. Please tell me I'm not the first…
  • MICROSTATION - CUSTOM HATCH PATTTERNS

    Hello, I am using Microstation v8i SS2. I need to draft a custom hatch pattern and not seeing much about that. I thought I could just draw linework that represented a hatch pattern and use as a cell. But apparently there is more to it than that. Are…
  • Modifying balloon for dynamic views

    Hi, I would very much like to change or even better insert another cell instead to the Bentley's standard balloon when inserting dynamic views into a sheet, as shown below. I have spend a lot of time searching for the cell libray without any lock…
  • Print Text Substitution

    (Portions of this article apply to MicroStation V8i) Setting aside the more sophisticated capabilities of ProjectWise InterPlot design scripts and ProjectWise title blocks, there are four main techniques in standard MicroStation to replace design…