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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…

A little while ago I wrote about the lack of training on offer for positions. Well lately it looks as though employers are looking for Superman with the list of requirements being asked for.

Let’s face it, how many Lead Designers do you know who can…

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…

I hope you're going well during these hard times. It's certainly left me penty of time to ponder the future of the industry as well as mine. Lets add to this time to go over software updates and builds and there's some interesting times ahead.…

Well, if you'r a regular reader I hope I haven't fried your brain with how my builds work. In the end, the build is about making it easier to deliver packages across the company no matter where the designers are and it can be managed from a single location…

As a CAD Admin and Manager we can easily forget the little things that make day to day use of packages easier. Lately, I've been working with some mates from way back and while they love the new toys I've been working on, it's still the little things…

So, while we've had changes to the configs between V8i and Connect, the key to have all of this work using the same app is that we haven't had to change the code to the base CADmanage app. All of the work for Connect is happening at the config end in…

It's been a while since I've had time to sit down and put some updates together. I've been wanting to share some updates for while, but rather than bombard you all at once I'll split down what I've done to date into OBD and OPM.

If…

We're all wired differently. Me, I like to have things simplified when it comes to my tools. Like our first article on 'Work Smarter, Not Harder', this is where the VB Forms continue to make it easier to deliver a more cohesive interface.

It's the little things that can make the difference when it comes to different CAD packages and the versions changes that can create confusion and slow people down.

One way I work around this is to create custom GUI tools that are portable from version…

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…