• Setting Up in the Real World - SnakeGrid

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World What is SnakeGrid? [updated with Jim Turner's comments; thank you Jim!] SnakeGrid takes a linear alignment and lays it out on a flat plane maintaining low distortion along a strip approximately 20km wide…
  • Reprojection Settings - Display Errors to Message Center

    According to this wiki https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8950/reprojection-setting there should be option to display error messages when using reprojection. I do not see such setting.
  • Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    As items drift down a blog's timeline they can be overlooked, so here is an index for this series of pieces: The big picture: Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?" Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates…
  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World This article is an update of the earlier Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing piece with a slightly simplified workflow to create the transformed GCS and using different example data. Background…
  • Set-PWUserWorkingDirectory bug

    Set-PWUserWorkingDirectory actually checks if the working directory you're setting for the user exists on the local machine. If I'm changing a working directory for another user, the directory I'm changing it to NEVER exists on the local machine. I…
  • Re: ProjectWise Workflows

    Another thing to keep in mind is that the folder itself will change States as well. The folder State will always be the same State as the lowest State of any of its documents. This can be confusing depending on the permissions you have applied in the…
  • Workflow state on document move

    When I move a document that is in a specific workflow state from one folder to another, then the state is reset to the first state of the workflow attached to the destination folder. This happens even if the source and destination folders are attached…
  • Get-PWDocumentsBySearch : Not logged in as a ProjectWise Administrator.

    When running a simple 'Get-PWDocumentsBySearch' command $Docs = Get-PWDocumentsBySearch -SearchName "$ProjectFolderPath\$pdfSearchName" -filename '%.pdf' -GetAttributes I now get an error, which I never used to get before Get-PWDocumentsBySearch : Not…