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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>GetGray's Communities Activities</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/members/a3c1bd11_2d00_4de2_2d00_48d2_2d00_9bab_2d00_ba7f72705818</link><description>Recent activity for people in GetGray's community</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Powerdrafting Educator License issues</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/216758/powerdrafting-educator-license-issues</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:44:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fe8d3848-284d-46e5-a564-4680c958c6f7</guid><dc:creator>GetGray</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I am a volunteer mentor for a High School Robotics program (www.bestrobotics.org)&amp;nbsp; I use Microstation at work (AT&amp;amp;T) and have for 20+ years so I&amp;#39;m very familiar with it.&amp;nbsp; Powerdrafting (PD) is an excellent 2D CAD program for the kids to use and for me to teach.&amp;nbsp; Originally PD was simply free to download.&amp;nbsp; Then Bentley tightend it up some but I was able to have each student go through the registration process and get the download going.&amp;nbsp; They keep changing the process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year, now that COVID is less out of control, we are back to teaching robotics.&amp;nbsp; I went to set some new students up and my old links and process don&amp;#39;t work.&amp;nbsp; I presume they got hit with your new ID system.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; My connection client still works and still lets me use PD.&amp;nbsp; But for new students, they get the Educator page where it&amp;#39;s asking them to provide a copy of their student ID or .edu Email.&amp;nbsp; As Middle and High school (6th - 12th graders), they have neither.&amp;nbsp; Our schools don&amp;#39;t issue IDs to High School students.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;All the personnel I have worked with at Bentley in the past now have disconnected numbers.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;ve been trying for several days and I&amp;#39;ve yet to get a human being at Bentley on the phone.&amp;nbsp; Well, once I got an operator who promptly put be back into the voice prompt system and a dead end.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is there anyone at Bentley who could give me a call or email and help me get this resolved?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;br /&gt;Scott&amp;nbsp; scott@techht.com; scott.horton@bestinc.org&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ask A Question I</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/460ac7df-7ccc-4c42-a204-9e05eef3be09</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2021 05:25:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d79e1c85-2628-4b40-b6b0-a1166ea7975a</guid><dc:creator /><description>Ask a question in a forum.</description></item><item><title>Replicating user preference files across several PC&amp;#39;s</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/126563/replicating-user-preference-files-across-several-pc-s</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:02:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:7af4ac32-4db4-4d93-9400-5e6111a8eb34</guid><dc:creator>GetGray</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I volunteer and coach a middle/high school robotics team.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;ve used Microstation at work for years.&amp;nbsp; So it&amp;#39;s a logical choice for me to have the kids use it.&amp;nbsp; Saves me from learning something else.&amp;nbsp; We found that Bentley has a free version of Microstation called &amp;quot;Power Drafting&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; It does everything the kids would ever need, or me for that matter.&amp;nbsp; From my perspective they are equal, with only a few differences in tool names.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My problem is after I install it I want to be able to set the user preferences on the kids PC&amp;#39;s so they all have the same layout as I use.&amp;nbsp; The problem there is I have no control over their hardware or OS.&amp;nbsp; Some have Windows 7, some have Windows 10.&amp;nbsp; I think the file paths are different.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve figured out the the UPF is buried and has that random folder name.&amp;nbsp; So I haven&amp;#39;t figured out a way to automate the copying of the UPF.&amp;nbsp; And I&amp;#39;m not sure where it &amp;quot;lives&amp;quot; on Windows 10 as I use W7Pro.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Can anyone give me any suggestions on the easiest way, the instructions that is, on starting Microstation (Power Drafting), looking up the correct UPF folder, and copying a supplied UPF to that location?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scott&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>popset - I can&amp;#39;t tell that it does anything?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/110875/popset---i-can-t-tell-that-it-does-anything</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:31:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:19d0629a-f227-4a57-a451-01965af7066e</guid><dc:creator>GetGray</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;popset - I can&amp;#39;t tell that it does anything.&amp;nbsp; Can someone explain what it does do?&amp;nbsp; My toolboxes stay on whether or not it&amp;#39;s enabled. I&amp;#39;m using PowerDraft 8i 8.11.09.459&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Resizing an extruded object with it&amp;#39;s handles issue</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/104388/resizing-an-extruded-object-with-it-s-handles-issue</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 02:26:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c901c4c8-7452-4348-8556-8fd1a345a61e</guid><dc:creator>GetGray</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I have a rectangular 3D object created using solid by extrusion.&amp;nbsp; While looking it in a side view I click on it to activate its handles.&amp;nbsp; I click on the handles, lock the Y axis and then stretch it to make it longer in the X axis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My problem is it is stretching double of where I move my cursor.&amp;nbsp; If I try to snap the stretch to another object, I get a move that is double what I wanted.&amp;nbsp; I figured out that if I more to my desired snap point, then in accu-draw length entry box append &amp;quot;/2&amp;quot; and tab, I can get the thing to be the length I want.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some times it works normal (not the 2x stretch).&amp;nbsp; For example in my top view it works correctly if I stretch in the X direction, but I get the double behavior in the y direction.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hopefully I&amp;#39;m describing it well.&amp;nbsp; Can anyone tell me what I&amp;#39;ve set or can unset to fix this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scott&lt;/p&gt;
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