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    • Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT – Side by Side: The MicroStation CONNECT Edition and MicroStation V8i

      Tom Stogdill
      Tom Stogdill

      You like MicroStation V8i, but…   

      MicroStation V8i has been in use since it was first released in November of 2008, effectively serving the Bentley user community for many years. It has evolved to become a proven and stable platform, considered…

      • Wed, Feb 27 2019
    • Like V8i? You'll Love CONNECT - Replacing Feature Solids with Parametric Solids

      Smrutirekha Mahapatra
      Smrutirekha Mahapatra

      You like MicroStation V8i but...

      In V8i you can create parametric, feature-based solids, using Feature Modeling tools. Parameters used to create features like chamfer, fillet, hole, etc., are stored in the design and can be edited using the Modify Parametric…

      • Wed, Feb 20 2019
    • Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT – Replacing Tag Sets with Item Types

      Tom Stogdill
      Tom Stogdill

      You like MicroStation V8i, but…

      MicroStation V8i allowed elements to be “tagged” with non-graphical data referred to as Tags. Tags were stored in Tag Sets, with the tag data providing for the reporting on tagged elements.

      Though a…

      • Wed, Feb 20 2019
    • Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT - Simplify Viewing of Objects Properties

      Shaylesh Lunawat
      Shaylesh Lunawat

      You like MicroStation V8i, but...

      • Ever wanted to view the properties of a cell before placing it in your model?
      • Ever thought that element properties are displayed the moment you select them in the view window, then why do I have to do extra clicks to…
      • Wed, Feb 20 2019
    • Like V8i? You'll Love CONNECT - Configuration Variables Dialog Improvements

      Shaylesh Lunawat
      Shaylesh Lunawat

      As you are aware, the Configuration dialog is frequently required to modify the location of your library files or control the behavior of certain features.

      Though a very useful dialog, it certainly had a few usability issues in V8i:

      • Finding a configuration…
      • Wed, Feb 20 2019
    • Like V8i? You'll Love CONNECT - Sheet Tracking and Ordering

      Shaylesh Lunawat
      Shaylesh Lunawat

      In MicroStation V8i, while working on a project, sheet numbering, sheet ordering, and tracking was mostly manual and hence tedious and error-prone. There were also some key limitations. Let us see what the pains in V8i were and how these have been alleviated…

      • Wed, Feb 20 2019
    • Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT - Recommended Scales

      Shaylesh Lunawat
      Shaylesh Lunawat

      You like MicroStation V8i, but…

      • Do you have to redo the saved view placement on the sheet because the view didn’t fit in the sheet?
      • Were you not able to fit the saved view in the drawing title in one go?

      You’ll Love CONNECT because……

      • Wed, Feb 20 2019
    • Printing List of Cells

      Shaylesh Lunawat
      Shaylesh Lunawat

      One of the main uses of the old CellUtil MDL App was the ability to print a grid of cells in the cell library along with a preview image of each cell. The Place Cell Index tool can be easily used to achieve this. The Place Cell Index tool gives more flexibility…

      • Fri, Feb 8 2019
    • Like V8i? You’ll Love CONNECT – Annotations from Item Types

      Tom Stogdill
      Tom Stogdill

      You like MicroStation V8i, but…

      MicroStation V8i allowed elements to be “tagged” with non-graphical data using Tags that were stored in Tag Sets. The Tag Data could then be used for generating simple reports but did not provide the ability to…

      • Mon, Feb 4 2019
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