Shaylesh Lunawat

MicroStation CONNECT Edition is Professional Grade CAD that enables you to take a massive leap forward with cool features such as Item Types, Sheet Index, Parametric Modeling, and many more. Have you started using powerful properties-based features like…

You like MicroStation V8i, but...

• Ever wanted to view the properties of a cell before placing it in your model?
• Ever thought that element properties are displayed the moment you select them in the view window, then why do I have to do extra clicks to…

As you are aware, the Configuration dialog is frequently required to modify the location of your library files or control the behavior of certain features.

Though a very useful dialog, it certainly had a few usability issues in V8i:

• Finding a configuration…

In MicroStation V8i, while working on a project, sheet numbering, sheet ordering, and tracking was mostly manual and hence tedious and error-prone. There were also some key limitations. Let us see what the pains in V8i were and how these have been alleviated…

You like MicroStation V8i, but…

• Do you have to redo the saved view placement on the sheet because the view didn’t fit in the sheet?
• Were you not able to fit the saved view in the drawing title in one go?

You’ll Love CONNECT because……

One of the main uses of the old CellUtil MDL App was the ability to print a grid of cells in the cell library along with a preview image of each cell. The Place Cell Index tool can be easily used to achieve this. The Place Cell Index tool gives more flexibility…

The Sheet Index feature is quite flexible and customizable. In addition to the default sheet properties such as sheet number, sheet name, file name, etc., you can add your custom properties to sheets and folders in the sheet index. Say you want to add…

Generally, we use the Proxy Settings dialog to access MicroStation CONNECT features through the internet. It acts as a Centralized source for all proxy settings within PowerPlatform apps.

In Update 11, you can find the Proxy settings at:

File >> Tools…

In the previous Configuration Series blog, you saw how to include Bentley applications in your existing projects. That is fine for sharing standards across Bentley applications. However, what about sharing design content across applications? For example…

In the previous blog, you saw how to use application-specific standards for the same project. However, it was missing details about how you place the files and folders within the application-specific standards subfolders. The simplest way to do this is…

In real-world, multiple Bentley applications are used in tandem on a single project. Multiple domain-specific products built on top of MicroStation platform are used together. For example, in a large infrastructure project, AECOsim Building Designer …

There are numerous blogs containing wealth of information on Configuration in CONNECT Edition. However, as we write new blogs, the old ones get buried down in the list, making it difficult to get to the desired blogs. Also, some blogs are written by colleagues…

While migrating from V8i or any of the previous versions to CONNECT Edition, CAD Admins will look for silently removing the old application so that the users are not bothered. The attached PowerShell script can be of great use for such uninstallations…

One of the main areas of focus for MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 was on improving performance, especially when accessing the backstage. During our investigations, it was found that some users were seeing a delay accessing the backstage when their…

The description of a Geographic Coordinate System can now be edited in the Geographic Coordinate System Properties dialog.

This description can also be seen in the GeoCS Description column that is newly added to the References dialog list box, as shown…

If you require Proxy Settings for your Rasters when using Raster Manager, the Reality Mesh Proxy Server Settings now carries over these settings. You can find this option under:

Reality Mesh Attachments > Attach Reality Mesh > ProjectWise ContextShare…

We are ready with an additional feature for Item Types. In Update 10, you can attach multiple items to graphical element at once.

Suppose there is an item type library containing multiple item types and you want to attach few items from that library to…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 introduces the CONNECT Services tab in the ribbon of Drawing, Modeling, Visualization and Admin workflows. This new tab is created to consolidate all CONNECT Services at one location for ease of access. This tab…

In the CONNECT Edition, a new file extension .dgnws has been introduced. The DGNWS file is specific for a WorkSet. In other words, each WorkSet has an associated DGNWS file and has the same file name as the WorkSet name. It is located within the WorkSet…

MicroStation startup is simply not just the main executable starting but rather a series of preplanned actions of each variable and its configuration data located in specific *.cfg, *.ucf/WorkSpace, *.pcf/WorkSet, and others.

All configuration files are…

In MicroStation, configuration variables are stored at different hierarchical levels. Such hierarchy helps in segregating standards and resources at different levels. For example, you may have some standards that are common organization-wide and some…

In the previous blog, you learned the terminology changes between V8i and CONNECT. Now let us see the folder structure changes.

Installation Directory

As the CONNECT Edition release of MicroStation is a 64 bit application, it is by default installed in…

There have been some changes in the terminologies used in CONNECT versus the previous versions of MicroStation. Let us look at them.

WorkSpace is now Configuration

What was previously called as WorkSpace is now called Configuration. The root folder containing…

With the new version of MicroStation we introduced several new features to our Configuration system. There have been many changes and this series of blogs is going to go through and show you where to start and what you need to do to get a working MicroStation…