This article explains how to add a menu with links to useful locations or files in V8i applications and how to migrate the menu to CONNECT applications.
The general processes for creating custom tools in V8i are covered in the help documents and Customizing tools and tool boxes in MicroStation. How to Migrate Old Customizations to the Ribbon covers the general principles of tool migration. One useful thing to do with this…
Updated 12 September 2016
Notepad++ is one of the best text editors around and the one I always use for editing configuration files.
However out of the box it understandably does not include the Bentley CFG file language so all text is the default black.
I recommend setting the Notepad++ Setting menu > Preferences > Tab Settings > Tab Size to 8 for best presentation of tab spacing.
To transform your configuration…