• editing properties of a model externally

    Is there a way to edit the properties of a sheet model externally (without opening the file)? It seems that there must be a way to do it. I use project explorer to change sheet numbers and the way that that works is that it changes the value in the sheet…
  • [Connect] Text Field Appearance - Text Style is ignored?

    How do I apply a text style to a text field ? For example, suppose I want to annotate a shape with its perimeter and area. The screenshot below shows the result.. Each line of text is a text node containing two text elements. The text on the left…
  • IDEAS - posts

    ALL How often do you review the forum ideas and promote the ones you want implemented. There are a lot of ideas in place now and some of the good ones, only have a few likes. We need to work together to get these added to the software. If we don…
  • RE: [CONNECT] Select elements by Item Type property?

    Hi Mark, Mark Shamoun said: is there any tool (or anything planned) to filter or search for elements based on an Item Type and/or it's property? Sure, it is ... from (I guess) very first CE version ;-) It's possible to search for elements directly…
  • [CONNECT] Select elements by Item Type property?

    Hi all, Seeing that Item Types is the new way to add attributes to elements, is there any tool (or anything planned) to filter or search for elements based on an Item Type and/or it's property? Maybe time for a revamped Select by Attributes tool…
  • RE: Reporting from Item Types in Cells

    Oops, my bad! My colleague worked this out for Update16.1 under work ID#663296. The released version for Update16.1 is 10.16.01.56.
  • RE: Reporting from Item Types in Cells

    Jovan Djukanovic said: Thanks Jan, I realised that I can only achieve what I want with Item Types & Reports by attaching Item Types after the cells have been placed. No, it's just not true. I am not sure whether I expressed the information in a wrong…
  • RE: Reporting from Item Types in Cells

    Jovan Djukanovic said: I want all this to work with have an Item Type already attached within a cell Bentley Systems tell us that MicroStation Tags are obsolete because Item Types are better. However, this is one example where Item Types are not better…
  • RE: Reporting from Item Types in Cells

    Hi Jovan, From U16, we have renamed "Item Types" to "Objects". Jovan Djukanovic said: If you were to write "I find the Reports UI bizarre", then I would agree with you It will be very helpful for my team if you could create a single idea post…
  • How to Attach a PDF as Reference in a DGN in MicroStation CONNECT Edition

    Product: MicroStation Version: V8i, CONNECT Environment: N\A Area: Raster Subarea: N\A Problem What is the best method to attach a PDF document in MicroStation CONNECT Edition? Solution …
  • RE: Print Organizer with OneDrive

    So I needed to test something prior to responding to make sure it worked and I do not lead you down a ribbit hole. I just did a quick test on what I was thinking and it seems to work. In the workspace configuration I looked up the variable that defines…
  • RE: Print Organizer with OneDrive

    Matt, There was some discussion a while back on the Product Admin forum about using Onedrive. There are Onedrive environment variables you might try look into. This is similar to mwlong's suggestion to use MS_RFDIR. Tom F.
  • Print Organizer with OneDrive

    My company uses OneDrive for all file sharing. Generally works fine with Microstation. One issue is we can't share a Print Organizer. The file references and pen table references cannot link by relative path the way normal referencing does. Example…
  • RE: [MS CE 15.2] References files path to OneDrive folder

    I believe %OneDrive% is the generic and %OneDriveCommercial% only exists if you're using OneDrive for business. The article you link to mentions %OneDriveConsumer% is the regular user OneDrive version. I have commercial version installed and have both…
  • [MS CE 15.2] References files path to OneDrive folder

    Hi, In our company, we are now using onedrive to store our CAD projects We are facing a problem with the path for the reference files If I attach a reference path it uses my Windows user directory : C:\user\[MYWindowsLogin]\OneDrive-Of-My-Company…