• Assigning A Geographic Coordinate System

    Structure-scale Data The first case, often used when designing buildings, stadiums, industrial plants, and other structures, is to use a coordinate system that is most convenient for the structure. In that case, the design team might elect to place…

  • CADD Webinar #11 - Drainage

    This webinar was held on 11/17/2020.

  • Configure a Caching Server to a hosted environment

    The following describes how to configure a caching server, in its simplest form. This will be applicable to most users that have their Integration Server hosted by Bentley. If you don’t already know the PW Integration Server and Datasource name, open…

  • Creating a Complex Terrain

  • Dashed Line in Cross Sections is Plotting as Solid Line in PDF

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.08+ Area: Drawing Production Problem: When printing my cross sections to PDF, some of the existing ground dashed line is plotting as a solid line. Solution: Option 1.) Create…

  • Dynamic Managed Workspace

    Dynamic Managed Workspace Introduction The Dynamic Managed Workspace (DMW) is a templated ProjectWise Managed Workspace that is primarily .cfg file based. The Dynamic Managed Workspace Template saves time in Workspace development. Both owner/operators…

  • How to start sheet numbering at anything pother than 1?

    We use a pen table with Text Substitution to manage our sheet numbering through Print organizer for us. While it has it's drawbacks, it works well enough for normal projects. I have a project where we are a Sub-consultant, and our sheets are inserted…

  • Item Types - Populating Items using Lookup Tables

    Lookup tables are a good way to avoid manual data entry and ensure consistency. Item Types now have a lookup tables capability. Combined with storage of Item Types in shared DGNLIBs and the Pick List feature this is very powerful. The outcome of the…

  • Major alterations to alignments and geometry

    I've been learning the alignment (horizontal and vertical) and geometry tools, creating useful relationships to enable easy changes later. The only thing I'm unsure about is the approach to making major changes to alignments and geometry. I know you…

  • MicroStation CONNECT - Tips to speed up pefromance

    Buried in a different thread Bob Rayner gave some tips to improve the performance of MicroStation CONNECT Edition. I thought it would be a good idea to pull out those tips and start another discussion thread specifically for performance tips. Fom Bob…

  • Optimizing File Transfer Performance in ProjectWise Explorer

    There are settings to influence opening files with poor latency in ProjectWise, or optimizing performance opening files in ProjectWise. Some things you can consider are… Setting up a PW Caching server closer to the Users can help in a couple of ways…

  • ProjectWise Design Integration Update 3.4 Release 2

    ProjectWise Explorer 3.4 R2 is now available from software downloads. This release fixes an issue where ProjectWise does not resolve references involving Civil profile models and a scan for references would corrupt the file (Defect 1127100). This release…

  • ProjectWise-export, download or copy 55 folders each day to my computer

    Hi, I would like to export, download or copy 55 folders each day to my computer. I need to copy 55 specific folders to my computer each day. I don't know to program in Project Wise. Do you know a way (application) to read an address folder list…

  • Scalable Terrain Model Overview

    Scalable Terrain Model A Scalable Terrain Model, or STM for short, is a feature which can be used to create and display a very large terrain model using a multi-resolution technology similar to technology used for raster or point cloud data. A Hierarchy…

  • Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?"

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World ’ve been picking away at the whole issue of where to model in 3D space for a long time. One of the sources of confusion is the use of ambiguous names or descriptions for some of the key concepts. The following…

  • Supplemental Videos

    See below for a list of help videos. Coordinate Systems Geographic Coordinate Systems (GCS) Auxiliary Coordinates (Lat/Long) Survey Import Survey Data from CSV Reviewing Survey Data Terrain Model Creation and Editing Creating…

  • Terrain Model Creation and Editing

    This video goes over recommended workflows for creating and editing terrains created from survey data

  • Tutorial: Including the Date in Print Output File Names

    (This topic applies to MicroStation 8.11 and later.) In this article I am going to present a step-by-step approach to including the current date (in the format dd-MM-yy) as a prefix in print output file names produced by both Print Organizer and…

  • What does the GEOMETRY SUBSTITUTE keyin in ORD do?

    Anyone know what the GEOMETRY SUBSTITUTE does in ORD? I initially thought it was the same as GEOMETRY ELEMENT REPLACE, that swaps relationships of reference elements to another (which is still undocumented for some reason).

  • Which package for golf course design?

    Hi - as a golf course architect I'm looking at which software package to move on to from PowerCivil now that it's been discontinued. OpenSite looks to be good, but having seen a few intro videos it seems to be automation-heavy, for engineered site development…
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