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Printing with pen table

Jeff Berleth — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:27:18 GMT

Ok, my brain has officially checked out today...

Is there any reason that 2 .dgns would print differently given the following criteria...

Using v8i ss4

Both v8 dgns

Using print dialog (ctrl+p)

same pen table

same view attributes

same color tables

no overrides

Microstation Connect Background Map - Alternative resources

Jeff Berleth — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:36:04 GMT

Hello All,

I have been having mixed experiences with the positional quality of the Background Map capability under View Attributes dialog. Does there already exist a solution to using an alternate resource (other than Bing) for getting maps as the background.

I have been instructing my coworkers to use this capability and sometimes it doesn't work out so well. They used to use Google before that workflow died.

Anyway, here is an image of the Bing map behind surveyed information and a correct GCS.

This is unfavorable, so I compared it to a WMS feed thinking that it might repeat there.

Nope. Pretty good actually. So, can we have additional sources built into MicroStation outside of Bing please?

Connect 10.15.00.74

Test for scale in pentable

Jeff Berleth — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:20:13 GMT

Hi Everyone,

We have a workflow for legacy projects that goes like this...

Open file, place fence on sheet boundary 'ticks', open Print Dialog (ctrl+p), choose pltcfg, enter scale into Print Dialog, choose pen table (one of 3 that change the size of cells dependent on scale) as design script, print.

What I want to do is write a statement that will include all factors for the cells (instead of 3 files being chosen manually), test for the scale in the print dialog so so the cells scale correctly. Can I get that information from the print dialog through a pen table?

Microstation v8i ss4 08.11.09.832

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Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:40:06 GMT

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Bentley Connections Passports

Jeff Berleth — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:16:01 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to know who can tell me what the Bentley Connections Passports are on our licensing. Bentley can't give me a straight answer what these offer or why I need them We are getting charged a great deal over the years for them though. Furthermore, looks like there are errors in reporting on them as well. You guys might want to look at this line item if you have it.

In other news, Has anyone been having problems with their requests not being answered or AM's not following up with requests? Seems to be prevalent for us these days.

WTH - Move/Copy Parallel

Jeff Berleth — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:57:56 GMT

Hi Everyone,

So I am using Connect (latest build) to perform some modeling tasks and I created some line work to depict some steel that I was going to then create a shape out of and extrude along a path. The line work I drew that I'm attempting to offset copy parallel is coplanar. When I offset copy parallel the linework I'm not getting the mitered capability. Regardless of what mode I choose I get the same thing. Giphy doesn't show my choosing the "rounded" mode but the same thing happens. Ideas?

Win 10, 32gb ram, Core i7, Nvidia 1080, Connect update 13

Array with variables and expression builder

Jeff Berleth — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 17:34:47 GMT

Hello all,

I would like to know if anyone has developed a way to produce a polar array (rectangular or linear would be of interest also) with variables and expression builder for either 2d or 3d. Ultimately I would like to create a plate that has holes in it. The plate OD would be based on the bolt circle. The bolt hole would then be arrayed at a value of 6,8 or 10. An extrusion of the plate would be controlled by another variable. Or am I SOL and have to use GC? On that note, is GC for v8i still free? We don't have AECOSim licensing so we can't use connect.

Thanks in advance,

Connect version update 12

windows 10

Reality meshes and section views

Jeff Berleth — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:04:20 GMT

Can anyone explain why reality meshes don't appear with their coloring in section views? I thought maybe setting the presentation would fix that but it didn't. I must be overlooking something. I created the section view from and overall of a reality mesh I created through ContextCapture. I wanted to create elevations of the buildings in the reality mesh. Ideas?

Thanks in advance

win 10 pro

ms connect update 12

32gb, 8th gen core i7

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Parametric association for arraying along a path

Jeff Berleth — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:28:44 GMT

It would be cool to have a tool that would allow us to array along a path (smartline, bspline, etc.) and then update as we change the path. For instance, I can extrude a profile along a path and then modify that path and not have to rerun the extrusion, which rocks. I would like to be able to array along a path and then redefine the path but have the array automatically update from my edit. If this exists, I'm overlooking it.

update:

Yes, I did use the "Array Parametric Solid Feature" tool. It is not functioning as expected. I would like for there to be multiple objects I can apply to one path. E.G. a guiiderail. I would like to be able to extrude the guiderail profile along with the vertical members arrayed along the path. I tried this with a bspline and it wasn't that great. Also, can we have an option to hide, copy, retain path and profile like other modeling tools?

Thanks in advance

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