• Apply access control and inherited access control

    We have a top level access control setup, and all the subfolders inherit from the top level. Now, through a program, I will create a subfolder, which I will assign some access control on the folder level, and I need the inherited access control together…
  • Compatibility of Visual Studio 2010 with PW V8i SS3

    Does Bentley recommend using VS 2010 with the ProjectWise SDK? I've been using VS 2005 on an XP machine successfully. Recently, though, we at my company have been upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit machines. Since then I've been having a very difficult time…
  • Custom Wizard questions

    This is multi-part question A. I have a custom document creation type wizard registered and the icon is shown after the "No Wizard" and "Advanced Wizards" icons within the ProjectWise Explorer Select a wizard dialog box when the user chooses to…
  • Debug & Font::GetName()

    How can I workaround (WString) Font::GetName() issue in Debug mode? In Release all works fine... Following did not solve my issue... #ifdef _DEBUG #undef _DEBUG #include <MicroStationAPI.h> #define _DEBUG #else #include <MicroStationAPI.h> #endif…
  • GUID/Global Unique Identifier

    Hi, Can anyone enlighten me as to how I get the GUID for a Microstation geometry element through VBA? Thanks
  • Issue with aaApi_CopyProject() function copying files as well as folders.

    This post concerns an issue with the aaApi_CopyProject function. We are using ProjectWise V8I SS3. Our SDK is SS2. The task consists of creating a rich project and copying the child folder structure, including the files they contain, from an existing…
  • Level operations slow when using levels in dgnlib

    Hi, It seems that many level operations are very slow. This accelerates when you have many dgnlibs with many levels. We have a program that reads external data and creates element and levels. The level creation takes a considerable time when using…
  • Microsoft Security "Disabled VBA Script" Bulletins

    Please refer to the following for some important information regarding the disabling of VBA scripts in recent Microsoft Windows updates: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-060 (update to MS12-027) disables VBA Scripts (released 08-14-2012) Microsoft…
  • microstation API

    Hi, I am new to Microstation API. can any one tell me how to do program for microstation using C# ? 1. what are dll we have to reference? 2. how load the dll in to microstation? 3. how to run command? 4. in Autocad or Bricscad we can load…
  • PointCloud API?

    Hi. Any mdl API for PointCloud is available ? Thanks. Yoji Takahashi
  • Printer Driver Configurations: .pltcfg versus .plt

    In this post I'm going to try to answer some of the commonly asked questions concerning the .pltcfg files that were introduced in MicroStation 8.9.3, and the removal of the default .plt files in MicroStation 8.11. To begin with, it's important…
  • Process PW dgn file silently

    Hi, Is it possible to use a dos command to run MicroStation V8i SS1 batch process on a DGN file in PW using Single Sign On? I mean automated thing without user intervention. TIA
  • SDK: AAHOOK_EXEC_MENU_COMMAND throws blank dialog

    I'm having an issue with a Pre hook I've written for AAHOOK_EXEC_MENU_COMMAND. Specifically, I'm hooking on a native PW command (command id of IDMD_Redline). The hook works, but has the undesired effect of throwing a blank information dialog when the…
  • Simple VBA app for accessing ProjectWise

    I took a sample application from the Bentley Developer Network and stripped it down to a very simple test application to make sure I could connect to ProjectWise from VBA (code below). There is no error checking going on here and I usually run it while…
  • SS3 version and SS2 version for SDK

    Dear teachers, I developed tool based on SS3 SDK. it works well SS3. However it doesn't work at SS2 projectwise. Shoud I use SDK based on SS2? Please help me..
  • usage of SetClipBoundary(...) of IPointCloudEdit

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    Hi, anyone has experiences about API function - SetClipBoundary(...) of IPointCloudEdit ? I have implemented the clip boundary function as bellows, in the code I have confirmed "handlerP" pointer is correct, but handlerP->SetClipBoundary is occur error…
  • Using <DllImport("dmsgen.dll")> _ with projectwise dll's

    Hello, I'm trying to use VB.net with projectwise ,I tried to add some dll's from projectwise explorer to my project but it cause an error of "a refrence to this file couldn't be added please make sure this file is accessible and that is a valid…
  • Using the BDN Wizards in Visual Studio 2005 on Windows 7 64-bit

    After searching all over the BeCommunities site I found information that explained how to install the Wizards. The short description of what I did was: Unzip the Wizards, which yields the following folders: ControlFiles, MDLProjectWizard, MicroStation…
  • Variables for Locations of files on projectwise

    Are there variables that could be put into the DGN file that shows the path to where the file is located on projectwise? Before we had a variables like $FILE$ OR $$LABEL$$ in the file and it would print the file path out on the sheet so you could find…
  • vba2mdl

    There's an MDL example vba2mdl . The MDL code compiles, but is there a VBA project to go with this? I'm trying to figure out how to declare the MDL functions in VBA to be able to call them. Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions