networking

You'll get a lot of different answers on this, but from my point of view the best way to do it is to use a custom cfg file in the appl directory. As a long time Bentley administrator I always teach new admins to 'leave installed files alone'.

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Unknown said:

hi

quite a basic question to start with.

when creating new variables in user/project/int to point to files in a shared location, should i make the change to msconfig or create a separate file and put in appl? will separate file in appl slow down the opening of files?

thanks

I find your question a bit confusing.  If you are creating variables in user/project/int what does that have to do with MSCONFIG?  Regardless, it is never recommended to edit the delivered files.  I recommend that you place a file in the Standards directory of the workspace to make changes for your workspace.  In general this extra file will not make the application start slower but this will also depend if we are processing file on your network, the speed of your network, and the number of files we are processing.

Just to expand slightly on the two suggestions here, which are .

The file that goes in (for a default installation on a 64-bit OS) C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\MicroStation\config\appl\ is to redirect MicroStation\ AECOsim etc to the shared workspace on the network, see this post, it applies to MicroStatiion as well as AECOsim: Configuring AECOsim Building Designer #4 – Redirecting to the Network

if you are creating custom variables they should go into the standards.cfg file, see Configuring AECOsim Building Designer #7 – Sharing Standards

The other articles in the series will be worth reading as well.

Note that personally I would minimise the number of custom variables. It's worth exploring what is possible with the delivered variables before resorting to adding your own.