As more and more organizations are using Bentley’s cloud services, improvements in these services are but obvious. The Personal Share feature on the cloud is now deprecated and replaced with ProjectWise Share. The advantage of using ProjectWise Share…

In the previous blog, we added icons to elements and associated key-ins to them. In this blog, let us create saved views, assign keyboard shortcuts to the screen menus, and learn to use the screen menus.

Creating Saved Views

1. Resize the view window to…

Creating a Screen Menu

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Screen menus are to be created in a .dgnlib file pointed by MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST configuration variable. The tools required to create screen menu are available in the Screen Menu ribbon group of the Interface tab of the…

Introduction

In MicroStation, there are three commonly known ways to access tools: from the ribbon at the top, from ribbon group pop-ups, which are in-place at the cursor position, or using keyboard shortcuts. There is one more relatively uncommon but…

Previously, you required a Microsoft Bing authentication key to attach Microsoft Bing Maps as rasters. In Update 7, this is no longer required.  If you are a CONNECTED User, you can display the Microsoft Bing Maps imagery from the View Attributes dialog…

To convert a design file into an i-model, you need the Bentley DgnDb i-model Importer. Different Bentley applications support different versions of i-models. For example, Bentley Navigator CONNECT Edition versions up to Update 2 support i-model version…

Managing Visibility of Tools

Up to the last blog, we created a workflow, added tabs, groups and tools within them. All seems done! However, just consider a situation where you have a tool that can be used only in a sheet model. You don’t want it to be…

Place Active Line Terminator Enhancement

This was a request on the Ideas forum of Bentley Communities. Previously, if you placed a cell as an active line terminator, the association of that cell was not maintained with the line or element on which it…

Some of you may be wondering if we ever will have a real-life image of a line style instead of the usual plain and simple line style, great news is that we now have it for you.  The raster custom line style is the new Technology Preview feature being.…

Adding Tools to the Ribbon Group

In this blog, we will add tools or buttons to the ribbon group.

1. In the Customize Ribbon dialog, in the Roadway workflow, select the Common Tools ribbon group.
2. In the Choose components from drop-down, make sure Buttons…

Creating Custom Ribbon Components

In this blog, we will use the Customize Ribbon dialog and create custom ribbon components such as workflow, tab, and ribbon group. To know more about each of these, refer to my previous blog.

In this example, we will…

One of the biggest enhancements in the CONNECT Edition release over V8i was the implementation of the ribbon. The ribbon and related User Interface enhancements are a big leap in improving usability of MicroStation and in turn enhancing the productivity…

Introduction to the Ribbon Interface

The MicroStation ribbon interface typically follows the Microsoft Office ribbon with some enhancements. The following image shows the different components of a ribbon.

The size of the ribbon components automatically…

The Markup and Redline workflow is always part of the design process.  The traditional way to do this is to print a copy of the design and have an engineer or field technician use a red pencil to markup the changes they want to the drawing.  Then that paper…

Hurray! The Online Help is finally here. You no longer need to check the old static help for our products. MicroStation documentation is now officially available online.

Some of the key features of the online help are:

• Accessibility from the product

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A new Change Mesh Normal tool has been introduced as a Technology Preview feature in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 6. In addition to the old Reverse and Unify Normals features, the following new features are provided in this new tool:

• Average Normals…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 5 has added a new feature for attaching reference files. You can now set the visible edges display directly from the Reference Attachment Properties dialog. This will save a step that you would previously have to do…

Managing Sheet Index

In the previous blog, we customized the drawing seed and used it for automating dynamic views. In this blog, we will add sheets to the sheet index and customize the sheet numbering.

Creating Sheet Index Structure

You can organize…

In the previous blog, we learnt about adding sheets to the sheet index and customizing the sheet index numbering. Once all the sheets are included in the sheet index, you want to create a report of sheet index and place it as a table. Let’s see how to…

In this update, two enhancements have been made to the Solid by Extrusion Along Path and Surface by Extrusion Along Path tools. First one is that you can now extrude a profile along a portion of the path element. With the second enhancement, you can reverse…

Having a project member use an incorrect standard on a project is not only costly to the project, but also uses up time and resources on fixing the problem.  To help alleviate this potential problem, MicroStation CONNECT Edition offers the Project St.…

Setting Up and Customizing Drawing Seeds

Seed files are kind of templates that can be used for working on repeated tasks to achieve a consistent output. Drawing seeds are seed files that are used while placing callouts and automating dynamic views in…

The 3D Angle constraint is the latest 3D Dimensional constraint tool introduced in MicroStation CONNECT Edition. It adds on to the existing list of 3D dimension constraining tools, that let you fix geometries with respect to one another. Until now you…

Let’s start with the basics

Before going into details of dynamic views, lets understand its components.

Design Model

A design model is a collection of elements that are drawn for creation of desired model. The design model is drawn to actual size…

Drawing Composition, in general, is all about creating and composing drawings from your design. In MicroStation, drawing composition can be achieved efficiently and easily using Dynamic Views. Dynamic Views is a general term that encompasses several related…