The following solution addresses the user question submitted in this forum thread.
Question: I have a Shapefile that contains some features I'd like to map to point-cell XFM features, and other features that I'd like to map to point-text FM features …
Original Tip Date: February 2006
Updated: October 2010
Change a complex shape to a (simple) shape
With AccuDraw turned on, choose Modify Element with Minimize number of linear elements enabled. Then click on the element twice in the same location…
Original Tip Date: Feb 27, 2002
Customer request ability to edit Linestyles without intermediate steps using .rsc files.
http://appsnet.bentley…
A CR has been issued on the following request.
This is a test. add CR info here
Customers in favor of this change should log a Service Ticket with Bentley support.
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Create New Service…
Hi all,
I would like to delete some of my unused Point symbols from the Line Style Editor facility. These are not the point components, just the symbols created for the point components. There does not seem to be a way of accessing the symbols…
Original Article Date: Jan 1, 2008
With thanks to Van Woods for this contribution that discusses a customized report generated by the Standards Checker.
MicroStation V8 introduced a utility to compare levels, text styles, dimension…
Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001
Original Article Date: Aug 18, 2005
Miro Mates shares this V8 MDL that generates an index of your custom line styles. What a time saver!!! As always, thanks Miro!!!
Download 262.zip and extract docls_v8.ma from the zip file. Place…
You can enable simple or automatic check-in of documents in each integrated Microsoft Office application as necessary, by configuring certain strings in the registry for each application. Simple check-in replaces the standard ProjectWise Check In dialog…
Have you ever been wondering how many 2D or 3D drawings your datasource contains? If so, this post might help you.
Although it is not something straightforward that you could achieve through standard PW Search. Almost. Lets search all our 3D drawings…
Thanks, Gino, for providing this information!
To do this:
Original Article Date: March 19, 2004
MicroStation's HTML Author allows you to quickly create a web-ready HTML page of a selected cell library. Once created, the resulting web-page can be used to drive the placement of cells inside of a MicroStation…
Original Tip Date: Mar. 3, 2003
MicroStation V8i makes it simple to plot the contents of a cell library. Just open the cell library as the active file and choose Place Cell Index from the Cells task. Tweak the settings and enter a data point on the view. MicroStation will build a…
Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003
Gino Cortesi told my dog that expand set sets a temporary configuration variable for your current design session.For example,expand set myfile = $(_dgnfile…
Simple documents check-in dialogs could be enabled for integrated Microsoft Office applications. Here is an example of enabled for Microsoft Office.
In order to enable it, you have to create registry strings for each application you want…
Original Article Date: October 2003
Updated: December 2011
Contributed by Karl Peterson, this tutorial shows you how to split blocks of text by using a fence.
NOTE: The following workflow does not work in MicroStation V8i.
Let's suppose that you…
When installing ProjectWise Orchestration Framework SS1/SS2 and using SQL Express 2008, you may not be able connect to the database via the DBSetup from a secondary server. It appears that SQL Express 2008 default setting is now set to the TCP being disabled…
Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003