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Shaylesh Lunawat

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  • MicroStation Blog: Advancing to CONNECT Edition

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    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…

    • Mon, May 4 2020
  • MicroStation Blog: Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT - Simplify Viewing of Objects Properties

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…
    • Wed, Feb 20 2019
  • MicroStation Blog: Like V8i? You'll Love CONNECT - Configuration Variables Dialog Improvements

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…
    • Wed, Feb 20 2019
  • MicroStation Blog: Like V8i? You'll Love CONNECT - Sheet Tracking and Ordering

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Wed, Feb 20 2019
  • MicroStation Blog: Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT - Recommended Scales

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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……

    • Wed, Feb 20 2019
  • MicroStation Blog: Printing List of Cells

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Fri, Feb 8 2019
  • MicroStation Blog: Including Custom Properties in Sheet Index Report

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Wed, Nov 21 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 11 - Access Connect Features through Proxy Settings

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Mon, Nov 19 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: One Configuration: Part 3 of 3 – Using iModels for Sharing Design Content Across Bentley Applications

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Mon, Oct 22 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: One Configuration: Part 2 of 3 – Adapting an Application in a Project

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Mon, Oct 22 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: One Configuration: Part 1 of 3 – Working with Standards Across Bentley Applications

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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 …

    • Mon, Oct 22 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blogs TOC

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Mon, Oct 22 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Silently Uninstalling MicroStation and Allied Features

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, Oct 16 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 - Performance Enhancement – Model Drop-Down Picker

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Thu, Aug 16 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 – Editable GCS Description

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Fri, Aug 10 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 - Shared Raster Manager Proxy Settings

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Thu, Aug 2 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 - Ability to Attach Multiple Item Types

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Thu, Jul 26 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 - CONNECT Services Tab

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Thu, Jul 19 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blog Series - DGNWS File and WorkSet Template

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, Jun 26 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blog Series - Configuration Files in CONNECT

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, Jun 12 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blog Series - Changes to Configuration Levels

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, May 29 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blog Series - Folder Structure Changes

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, May 15 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blog Series - Terminology Changes

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, May 1 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: Configuration Blog Series - Introduction

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat

    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…

    • Tue, Apr 17 2018
  • MicroStation Blog: New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 8 - Place Label tool, Filter Cells by Element Properties [Technology Preview]

    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Shaylesh Lunawat
    Labels are cells that can maintain an association to the element that is being labeled. The cell definitions can contain text fields that are evaluated based on the element being labeled.
    The Cell Name drop-down in the Place Label tool can contain a long…
    • Tue, Mar 20 2018
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