Hello,

Just in case anyone wants to put a face to a name. This is the TSG Horsham Team Photo.

                   Simon Pegg             Jim Irvine          Dean Rickwood           Carl Myhill

Simon

Hi All,

We have finalised most of the Spring 2010 User Group meetings now. There are in chronological order as below :-

Weds 14^th April          Scotland                      Edinburgh.      WSP

Thurs 15^th April          North East                   Newcastle.     AECOM

Weds   21^st  April       North West                Warrington      WS Atkins 

Thuirs 22^nd  April        Yorkshire                   Sheffield         Sheffield City Council

Weds 28^th April           South West                  Taunton       Somerset County Counci…

Hello Again,

Something we get asked about every so often, is how to produce a Profile Drawing for a roundabout, showing all the legs to a common chainage. Its not that striaghtforward unless you are quite experienced in Linemode, and you certainly can't do it interactively.

Anyway, i have a couple of input files which will do this for you. Both produce the profiles, but they annotate the chainage slightly differently…

Hello Again,

I said that I'd try and post something about V8i SELECT Series 1. So here's something quickly.

You may have noticed a little icon in the top right hand corner of the Output Window (see Below)

This functionality is called 'Pinning', and allows you to temporarily minimise a dialogue. So when you click on the Pin icon, the Output Window disappears, and you get the text 'MX Output Window…

Hello Everyone,

A month has gone since my last post. Sorry for not posting anything recently. Anyway something technical today.

I've had a couple of people recently ask me about displaying tadpoles between two strings, which were either part of a survey or between a surveyed and a design string. You can do it, but the two strings do need to be in the same model.

You can use something called Slope Signature…

Hi Everbody,

I said the other day MX V8i SS1 was imminent.

Well, its just gone Live, and is now available to download from the SELECT Web Site.

Search for Bentley MX > SELECT Releae Products>File Posted in the Last 6 Months and you will find :-

Bentley MX V8i United Knigdom

Build 08.11.07.227

Posted 2/5/2010

Don't forget you need the prerequsite pack, but not neccessarily Microstation…

Hi All,

Just a quick post to let you know that the release of MX V8i SELECT Series 1 is imminent.

If you are thinking of upgrading, or reinstalling, then it may be worth while hanging on for a few days, so you can get the very latest version.

As well as some exciting new MX Functionality and Civil Platform tools, there are the usual fixes to customer reported problems, in the region of 200. So its well…

Hello Again,

Quick note to say that we're starting to organise the next round of MX User Group Meetings. They're likely to be scheduled for just after Easter, starting Mid April, through to end of May. We're looking at the usual areas as indicated below (in no particular order) and have started to sound out precise locations, and dates. Keep checking here for updates.

Scotland

North East

North…

Hello All,

 Happy New Year to everyone, interesting first week back wasn't it. We had a bit of disruption, but we managed to get someone in each day, and I don't think we missed anyone. If we did apologies, feel free to email me directly.

First post of this year is justs a snippet on one of the Australian Bonus Tools. I was sent a style set which wasn't displaying as it should, but no data. Fortunatley there…

Hi Guiys,

Nothing technical Today.

Have a Great Christmas and New Year.

 Join me for me MX Blogging in January.

Si

Hi Guys,

I can't beleive its a month since I last Blogged, thought it was only a couple of weeks...... been busy here, and TSG suffered from some sickness in Horsham.

Another post on the back of being asked something on support. Annotation of Cross Sections with Volumes.

It just so happens I have a reall good input file which will do exactly that.

It creates all the models and strings, and…

Hi All,

Sorry for missing out last week, busy week, and ran out of time to blog. Had a few calls which will make useful subjects for a blog posting, so hope to post a few this week.

References are a useful way to work, and are part of the CAD platform functionality. It allows you to Reference in a drawing to your MX Display, without having to convert it all to MX Strings. You can attach all sorts of different…

Hello All,

Back after the weekend, and its looking really Autumnal now :-(.

Anyother quick post prompted by a Service Ticket today. How annoying is it when you have to locate the MX Project Folder to open an input file, DWG, DGN or whatever ? Over the years I must have spent hours browsing to the right place, and often going to the wrong one, particularly if its on a Network. Since V8i (and before that in some…

Hello,

Quick one today on a Friday afternoon.

If you're displaying multiple models in a  project regularly, you could create yourself a Display Set. This contains a group of models, which you can easily display together, with one click.

You create a Display Set on the MX Model Display Toolbar, using the green icon on the far right hand end. On the next Panel, you tick the models you want to add, which…

Hello,

Someone just asked me about getting infomration about two adjacent strings, just for checking purposes. He didn't know about the Measure Crossfall and Gradient Tool, which can produce this exact sort of information. It can be found on the Status Toolbar or, under View>Status>Measure Crossfall and Gradient.

This dynamic option finds and displays the incoming and outgoing gradients, and the crossfalls…

Hello again,

I'm back after a weeks leave, refreshed after a good break with the family.

Some of my Blogs are going to cover some of the features/tools in MX, which I feel aren't either used enough, or known about. These are great tools which everone could use to a greater or lesser degree. I intend trying to give you a  flavour of what is available. You can then try things out and see if they can fit in to…

I'm on leave next week, so wanted to make another post before I left, nothing too technical on a  Friday morning !

During June and July (and one in August) we had our first round of User Group meetings of 2009. For those of you who don't know about them, we try and hold them twice a year in 10 locations thoughout the UK and Ireland.

We deemed them a  success, and attendance was very good. I think overall we had…

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my MX Blog. The very fact that you are reading this means you have found it.

Most UK Users will probably know me. I'm Simon Pegg the MX Technical Support Manager and I've spoken with many of you over the years and also met you at various user events.

My intention is to keep my Blog posts short and sweet, but to post often. They'll be news on events goingon, and the usual…