Here are some sensible settings to add to your Company_Standards.cfg: #----------------------------------------------------------------------# User Settings#----------------------------------------------------------------------MS_SNAPMODE_SOURCE = 1 MS_SPELLINGLANGUAGE…

When your configuration file is only a few lines long and can be taken in at a glance, how it is set out may not be that important. However once you get into configuration and the files grow, being tidy makes life a lot easier.

Some guidelines:

• Use…

Anyone who has used a well managed MicroStation system will be familiar with the sharing of CAD standards via a networked workspace.

So far I have moved to the network:

• project data.
• project and user configurations.
• the Company dataset.

How about…

The next step in networking AECOsim Building Designer is making an individual's user preferences accessible from any machine that they log onto.

If your Windows system has implemented Roaming Profiles the user preferences can be stored there, the…

Out of the box we deliver C:\ProgramData\Bentley\<applicationName>\WorkSpace\Standards\standards.cfg. This file lists a series of configuration variables that add paths to some of the sub-folders of ...\Workspace\Standards\ The list is fairly short…

The Message Center displays information that can be very useful in a number of situations.

A day to day example:

Measure something and the results are displayed in the Message Center portion of the Status Bar:

Open the Message Center dialog and the measurement…