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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>BrentJames's Activities</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/members/ae50a0c5_2d00_866c_2d00_47bc_2d00_8946_2d00_7ee817a70e70</link><description>BrentJames's recent activity</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>MicroStation V8i Parametric Cell Design Question</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/104558/microstation-v8i-parametric-cell-design-question</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:55:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d648075f-eec5-4335-b5a5-19378d3c421a</guid><dc:creator>Allan Becker</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;V8i Dimension driven design of cells&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have just begun to scratch the surface of the DDD capability and a question comes to mind.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First I will say that I have created numerous dimension driven parts (cell, blocks, etc.) in other 3D CAD applications.&amp;nbsp; In that scenario, a table operating in the background associated with the part allows a user to choose a specific part instance from the table and the part is then generated from values in the table.&amp;nbsp; Those who use structural steel sections or others who use bolts of various sizes will understand the process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon reading the provided V8i help docs, I perceive that the only way to set parameters in a DDD cell is that an algebraic expression must drive the dimensional relationships defined in the geometry.&amp;nbsp; In the case of socket head cap screws (those requiring a hex wrench to turn) the measurements across the flats of the hexagonal hole will not necessarily be described by a fixed algebraic formula but by a stock wrench size set by the governing machine screw standard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my question comes down to this:&amp;nbsp; Does V8i have a way to seed the measurements of a parametrically designed cell with values which are not based strictly on algebraic expressions?&amp;nbsp; I understand that an MDL module could possibly read a text file, display a dialog box and then proceed to build the cell from user selected input, but I am not expecting to make a career of developing MDL apps any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am open to additional reading on the subject and request a source for the documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>MicroStation V8i SS3 remains on top of other applications</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/102240/microstation-v8i-ss3-remains-on-top-of-other-applications</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:45:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:e6a7f49e-fee3-4ba2-aa9c-a93bca3bf24b</guid><dc:creator>brownlg33</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;We have a user that repeatedly has MicroStation take over and remain on top of other applications. Our resolution has been to run ustation.exe with the restoredefaults switch and everything is back to normal. Is there is a setting that they could be using to cause this to happen? They don&amp;#39;t have the issue with any other applications.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Les&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>MICROSTATION-TRIM MULTIPLE</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/102745/microstation-trim-multiple</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:50:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:79643210-730f-4c9b-989c-a47404c44988</guid><dc:creator>CADTech1</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am using Microstation V8i SS2.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am trying to use the&amp;nbsp;trim multiple&amp;nbsp;button and when I am prompted to select cutting edges after selecting the button, I am not allowed to select more than one line as a cutting edge.&amp;nbsp; I looked at the trim multiple&amp;nbsp;dialog but it does not have any options that would affect multiple cutting edges, only trim, extend or trim and extend options; mine is set to trim.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have tried pressing the control key to select multiple cutting edges but does not work.&amp;nbsp; The best work around is to use the break element by&amp;nbsp;point button which is a little inefficient.&amp;nbsp; How do I select multiple cutting edges to use the trim multiple command?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Extend - Wrong End Of Line</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/105696/extend---wrong-end-of-line</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:53:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:958865c0-45af-47f2-8d97-2f19bf3ff9e0</guid><dc:creator>David Renaud</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m running into this about half the time. I extend a line dynamically. I choose a point near the end I want to extend. Instead of extending from there, it shortens the other end, bringing it to where I clicked. So a simple two click extend takes several as I extend one end, then the other that was shortened up, then have to trim the other, or else snap to something during extending to get it to where it was before the extend took place, because that end was never supposed to move. I&amp;#39;m missing something obvious. I would *assume* that whatever side of the midpoint you pick that is the side that will extend dynamically. What is the trick?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Is there a line style for filled line (like a polyline)?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/107178/is-there-a-line-style-for-filled-line-like-a-polyline</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2015 16:16:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:8ceba00c-daa0-492a-b780-72c2fa694578</guid><dc:creator>stuartw</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is there a line style for filled line? Something similar to ACAD&amp;#39;s polyline, if that is the right term!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Scale by reference dimension</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/106759/scale-by-reference-dimension</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:20:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3690aa82-c7be-4a5e-9953-f9474667c84a</guid><dc:creator>Chris Biggs</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In AutoCAD, you can select scale by reference using a specific size. For example I have a 297&amp;#39;-5 3/16&amp;quot; line, I want to scale that line down to 8 1/2&amp;quot;. Can someone tell me the procedure?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ref File Clip Mask Oddity</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_printing/f/printing-and-plotting-forum/105482/ref-file-clip-mask-oddity</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:09:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:34f3b239-440b-4a5c-aa75-00373adc5f16</guid><dc:creator>David Renaud</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I applied some clip masks to a reference file that is attached to a sheet model&amp;nbsp;in order to &amp;quot;block&amp;quot; the elements within those areas from being visible or plotting. In the attached pdf the clip masks were defined by creating a fence from circles, then applying the masks through Reference Manager.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#39;s happening is that when I zoom out the adjacent linework disappears, both in the design model and in the plot. the farther you zoom out, the more that disappears. If I zoom way in, it is all visible - almost like there is a lineweight being applied. In the pdf the heavy lines running into the circle at right angles&amp;nbsp;are what is being inadvertently clipped. both the large gap running left from the circle and the small gap running down from the circle are errors - those lines are solid with no gaps.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I do not know for certain that this is happening from the clip masks, but it occurs at each of four defined for the reference file attachment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m using clips because trying to &amp;quot;mask&amp;quot; the reference file linework with dense hatches or opaque fills did not work, regardless of whether the hatch/fill was applied in the referenced design file, or in the sheet model parent dgn.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any ideas of either how to fix this, or a better method of blocking circular portions of the reference file from appearing and plotting?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;david&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;V8i SS3&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/19568/Gaps.pdf"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../Gaps.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Background Hatch not Covering Ref Attachment Linework</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_printing/f/printing-and-plotting-forum/105454/background-hatch-not-covering-ref-attachment-linework</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:52:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5d6c6d36-6ee4-468f-ac79-a103b88d4470</guid><dc:creator>David Renaud</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I am trying to cover up some lines by keeping them behind a dense hatch colored 255. I cannot trim/remove the lines from this area. I have used Edit&amp;gt;Bring to Front to make sure my hatch is in front. It looks OK in the editing space, but plots with the reference files lines in front to the hatch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I created a level with a particular name, put the hatch on it,&amp;nbsp;edited the pen table to recognize this level and, using plot priority, plot in front of the level that the lines are on: hatch priority 50, lines: priority 45. This worked for about one day, but the next it went back to plotting the lines in front.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;is there anything I can do to get the lines to be consistently covered by the hatch when plotted?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;david&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;V8i SS3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>[V8i Ss2] Variable Distance Key-In (Based on Active Scale)</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/104933/v8i-ss2-variable-distance-key-in-based-on-active-scale</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:37:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c1542a3c-c1ee-4355-be64-a86e34c98398</guid><dc:creator>LaneH</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;All,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;I recently stumbled across a key-in string that will orient a North arrow cell automatically when being placed. &amp;nbsp;This would be perfect if my firm liked to put the &amp;quot;Scale: &amp;quot; text with the same orientation as the arrow but they do not. &amp;nbsp;Instead we align the &amp;quot;Scale: &amp;quot; text with the view, which I think is pretty common.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;Because of this, &amp;nbsp;I created a second cell, one with the text &amp;quot;$SCALE$&amp;quot; (A text substitution we make with our pen table using named expressions), and I expanded the key-in string to place the scale cell a distance of 1 unit below the arrow cell after the arrow cell is placed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;The string is now...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;ac=North;aa=0;accudraw dialog;accudraw setorigin;accudraw rotate top;%d;accudraw rotate view;reset;ac=Scale;dx=0,-1,0;reset&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;My question then is, is there any way to make the distance of 1 unit a variable amount based off of the active scale? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;Something to the effect of ...dx=0,&amp;lt;as=&amp;gt;*-1,0...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;I am anticipating the answer is a no, but I suggested solutions do not have to be limited to the key-in dialog. &amp;nbsp;I am open to macros and other utilities so long as the end result can get slapped on a function key.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Place Note text not printing correctly in PowerDraft.</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/microstation_printing/f/printing-and-plotting-forum/103957/place-note-text-not-printing-correctly-in-powerdraft</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:34:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:04b7296f-87ac-4b95-84cc-ae08bb1d76a2</guid><dc:creator>orangepower</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I use the &amp;quot;place note&amp;quot; tool with curved leader line (which is set up exactly like my dimensions, same text, color, etc.) and when I go to print the text disappears regardless of the driver or pen table I use. &amp;nbsp;The arrow and leader line print fine. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I physically change the color of the leader text to &amp;quot;by level&amp;quot; color or &amp;quot;drop&amp;quot; the element the text magically appears in the print preview window.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have tried multiple pen tables and all the pen settings for that color (2) work fine and as far as I can tell it is isolated to ONLY the text contained within the &amp;quot;place note&amp;quot; command.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technical support was convinced it was the pen table. &amp;nbsp;I know it is not. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please help. &amp;nbsp;I am stumped. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Global Display / View Display</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/103175/global-display-view-display</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:48:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b24b2116-f052-4c2e-b376-54f7dd182f58</guid><dc:creator>Carlos Leon</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t know if some setting has changed in the past few weeks, but my global and view display is not working properly.&amp;nbsp; When selecting the global display from the View Display dialog, shouldn&amp;#39;t the selected levels turn on/off in all the open views?&amp;nbsp; Something is preventing some levels to display.&amp;nbsp; I either have to double-click each level to turn it on ( making it the Active Level ) or if the levels are on in another view I can copy that view.&amp;nbsp; Either way, the dialog box is not working as it used to.&amp;nbsp; Any suggestions?&amp;nbsp; Thx for you time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>[V8i] Modify Element Question</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/102401/v8i-modify-element-question</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:17:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:51fcbca5-bed8-42b8-aa9d-be7feb5e25de</guid><dc:creator>Elee</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I am working with modifying some closed shapes. I would like to work in AccuDraw&amp;#39;s polar mode and grab the shape by one of the segments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I have &amp;quot;Enable SmartLine modifications&amp;quot; checked in the Tool Settings dialog, which allows me to pick the shape by one of the segments, the AccuDraw compass changes from Polar to Rectangular when the segment is chosen. I must then hit the space bar again to change back to Polar and do what I need to. Once the segment is relocated, AccuDraw changes back to Polar. It stays on Polar if the box is not checked, but then I am not able to choose the shape by a side (segment). I would like to know how to keep it from changing and have it stay on whichever I have chosen before using the command.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am hoping there is a setting somewhere that I am missing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>