Bear

So, what does STD_APP have to do with anything?

Well, while worrying about how to sort out everything else, I forgot one thing. Up until now I’ve been able to keep applications separated from each other, but with Workspace\Workset, most of the application…

I tried. I really did try.

We had a win with MicroStation, No workspace and no workset. Only to have it taken away again by the developers of the other applications.

The reality is Bentley developers have decided to change the way applications, and…

One of the first issues raised during the beta process was the changes to the location of user files. During beta and the initial release of Connect, user preference files were locked to be stored as part of the user windows location. This caused quite…

This next series of blogs have been more than a few years in the coming. Any of you who have been around Bentley products since the days of version 4 and 5 know just some of the frustration many of us have with Connect. Right or wrong, these are just…

SR7000323916 (2015)

Enhancement 21581

Any chance we could see this happen in the not too distant future?

Background discussion:

https://communities.bentley.com/products/prostructures/f/prostructures-forum/54749/sm-07-76---structural_shapes/128275#1282…

I realise things have changed a bit in CE, but using the above keyin is a lot easier and faster than the extensive list of other tools and in V8i, the keyin matched not just the structural element, but also the rotation. This doesn't seem to be the case…

It disappoints me when I see suggestions like those in https://communities.bentley.com/products/plant/w/plant_design_and_engineering__wiki/28289/how-to-configure-openplant-modeler-to-use-workspace-from-shared-location when options exist to avoid editing…

Is there a way to get cut patterns in forward and reflected views as with DEM?

If not, will this be available in Connect??

Been meaning to add this for a while. It's the base cut-out for your keyboard so you can list what you have on your function keys. I find this great for new users especially. Easy enough to customise for different keyboard styles.

With so many changes between V8i and Connect it’s been a lot of work to go through how we can have the same control over custom interfaces, especially when we want these customisations to be dynamic. One way in which we can create a dynamic Workflow is…

It’s a subject that has fascinated me for most of my working life. Why are companies so against training staff to get the experience they are after? I don’t mean training in how to do the job, but why overlook a very good candidate purely because they…

It’s something, to me at least, that’s just stating the obvious, but so many firms seem to fail the test on many levels. This isn’t just about how standards are implemented, but having them in the first place…

It’s a feeling I’ve had from time to time while trying to justify my existence to different people and companies. The reality is that many firms have tried to go down this path, in one way or another, only to end up with the wrong person and approach…

With so many changes between V8i and Connect it’s been a lot of work to go through how we can have the same control over custom interfaces, especially when we want these customisations to be dynamic. One way in which we can create a dynamic Workflow is…

Let me get one thing straight, this isn’t meant as an attack on any one group and I’m not trying to single any group out. This is just my opinion on where I think the effort and skills should come from after almost 20 years in the industry.…

It’s a subject that has fascinated me for most of my working life. Why are companies so against training staff to get the experience they are after? I don’t mean training in how to do the job, but why overlook a very good candidate purely because they…

Working in the design/drafting industry was not my first choice in career, more something I fell into after a shoulder accident left me out of work for more than a year and in need of surgery. It was one of the darkest periods of my life, not knowing…

It’s probably the most asked question for any new starter when it comes to playing with cfg files and setting up your own build. As far as many of us are concerned, the golden rule of cfg editing is:

‘ Don’t edit any of the delivered cfg files…

In last nights tech tip:

http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/peer_blogs/b/bear_blog/archive/2013/12/11/tech-tip-easy-method-of-locking-variables.aspx

I mentioned that the lock cfg files will only effectively work if we bypass…

Not long to go now to Christmas so I've got a bit of catching up to do. I hope to have a few more blogs out to keep you all going until after the Chrissie break.

Tonight I was to go through a really easy way of locking your variables from a single…

I've always tried to share what I can as it's hard enough to find admin docs on many of the applications Bentley now own, and my recent dive into ProSteel on MicroStation (PS) was no different. In fact, it's probably been one of the harder applications…

There has been a few conversations on custom linestyles so I thought I'd post up a good basic example of setting up stroke line styles and then combining several of them into compound styles. These are just road line markings, but are a good example of…

There have been a lot of discussions on how you can access your build and set variables for user, project and even custom variables for client and so on. Over past blogs I have shown a lot on how these can be controlled and set using hta files, but if…

Probably one of the most underutilised tools available to you in any Bentley package are Context Menus. The most common of these are the right click menus that change depending on the tools and element you have selected. Right click in an empty part of…

Ever come across a situation where the view your modelling in looks almost jagged when you render it? This doesn't just apply to MicroStation.

Well, best bet is you’ve turned off Clip Front and Clip Back in the view attributes: