• "Time-Date stamp" on Borders and Title Blocks

    Hello, We are needing to be able to put a "Time-Date stamp" on our Borders and or in our Title Blocks. Please advise on how and where we can add those preferences. Please see attached jpg examples for side of sheet border and in title block.

  • [ORD] DU 2D Cell Orientation Questions

    We are working on our ORD Workspace and one area that needed work was our 2D Storm Drain Structures cell library. There had been reports of some cells not displaying using the correct rotation. As I went through the cells, I found few that were 180…

  • Batch File Renaming in ProjectWise

    Background Client has a number drawings they need rename. They would like to preserve the original drawing name and just add a prefix in front of the filename. How do you do this? And more importantly can you do this in batch? One way of doing this…

  • ELI5 Please: Print vs Plot, .set vs .pset

    Hi All! Would someone be so kind as to explain the differences in using the Print Organizer vs iPlot? Or if could give a situation when you think one would be better than the other? Also if someone could please explain .set vs .pset? My situation…

  • Export Item Types to Excell from All Models

    Hi I am struggling with exporting Item Types instances from ALL MODELS to the excell sheet. Actually, only the item type from the active model is exported. I have a number of sheets in my dgn file, title blocks are populated with item types…

  • FBX Export settings dialog

    I frequently export FBX files from CE. Can someone advise on how I can create a shortcut to call up the dialog, and change the default settings permanently ? Thanks, Max

  • Here is a link for a good generative component youtube channel

    Because Generative component exemple are hard to find, here is a good youtube channel: (2) 5D Design - YouTube More ''road type'' (2) Centrelines - Automation from Alignments - YouTube I would love someone from Bentley that could share out of…

  • How to export object animation from MicroStation to LumenRT ?

    Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): 10.17.01.58 Environment: Windows 10 Area: Animation Subarea: General How to export object animation from MicroStation to LumenRT ? Background Animation…

  • How to extrude solid to surface of another solid?

    Hello, Please help to guide me the efficient way to extrude solid to surface of another solid. For example, I need to extrude the pile from its bottom elevation to bottom surface of deck (the deck is not flat). I am using OpenRoads Designer CE…

  • How to place 3D trees on an existing mesh

    I have a 2D file with 2D tree cells in the correct geographic locations and need to now place 3D tree cells onto existing 3d meshes in the same XY locations as the 2D plan. I have tried several options now without success. I was hoping to use the stencil…

  • Is there a way to draw a line at a certain station and offset within the referenced profile view in ORD?

    My alignment are profile are in ALGNRD01 file. I referenced my alignment file into a different .dgn file called MOTIF In the MOTIF file I opened the profile view of the alignment and I am trying to draw a line at certain station offset. I understand…

  • Is there a WorkSet variable so only specific versions of ORD can open project files?

    Being that we can now have multiple versions of ORD installed and many of us are working on different projects with different versions of software, is there a way to set a config file to check if the user is opening the file with the correct software…

  • Item Type Expression to get Mesh Corridor Name?

    Hi all, I am trying to assemble an Item type Expression to get the Corridor name of a Corridor Mesh object and using the keyin "ECX ITEMS DUMP" i have put together an expression that I think should be close, but with limited experience with EC Objects…

  • Item Types - Using Item Types and Text Fields in Title Blocks - Part 1

    [Update: Some of the the techniques shown here have been superseded by Excel lookups, please refer to later posts coming soon from Nov 2023] The following example shows how these two features can be used to provide some degree of automation without…

  • Profile Annotation - Option for filled arrows in leaders??

    Is there an option that allows the arrowheads on leaders to be filled in a profile annotation group? I have annotations created for the vertical high/low points as seen below. We use filled arrowheads for all other dimensioning and want these to match…

  • ProjectWise Managed WorkSpace and Predefined variables

    Over the years several predefined variables have been added to the different CADD products but those variables aren't available in ProjectWise Managed workspace when it is copying out files and compiling the config file it hands off to the CADD product…

  • Remove Clipping Reference

    Hi, I have a corridor that was clipped with a element in a referenced dgn, but that element has since been deleted and the corridor stays clipped. When trying to remove the clipping refrence, I'm trying to select the element but it will not remove…

  • Rename full path data of reference

    Product: MicroStation Version: 08.11.07.443 Environment: N\A Area: Reference Subarea: N/A Problem Rename full path data of reference file. Reference files have been moved to new location and…

  • Saving reference level changes

    When making changes to reference levels, you may run into the following message: Changes to attachment levels will only be valid for this session. Should this be the case, then the keyin SET REFLEVELOVERRIDES is more than likely turned off. For…

  • SharePoint link to ProjectWise

    Project teams looking to establish single source of truth source hyper- link direct to ProjectWise from SharePoint. Hyperlink working in edit, as soon as page saved on SharePoint the hyperlink becomes inactive. How do I establish a SharePoint Page…
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