CONNECT View - Copy to Clipboard

Hi again Stuartw,

It seems like this is not considered a defect.

Bentley View is a drawing viewer and it was never intended to be used for editing, the copy to clipboard was purposely removed from the program in the CONNECT Edition.

Regards
Maria Garcia

In that case it is now practically useless as a program, and I will be un-installing this version and using the v8 version. The copy to clipboard option was REALLY useful in transferring information between one file/model to another. I was going to install on other users pc's but I'm not going to bother now!

If it is a drawing viewer why do you allow measuring, etc?

I really don't understand the mentality of this decision. This is a really bad decision!!

Remind me, what do I pay my SELECT fees for?

Why not just open a 2nd session of MicroStation instead of installing more software?

As Maria has suggested Bentley View is intended as software to view design files. It was not intended as a package to copy & paste text or other elements between files. If you have standard annotations you are using in your workflow then it might be worth considering storing these in Design Libraries or even just opening another session of MicroStation. You could also consider referencing in the other design file to your working file and copy the annotations from the reference.

I can confirm that Ctrl+C does still work in a default installation of Bentley View but it was decided not to include the Copy To Clipboard option in the right-click menu due to it being intended as a viewer. All of the Copy&Paste options are still available under the right-click menu within MicroStation so I would suggest if this is your preferred workflow that, as DavidG has suggested, instead of installing another piece of software you should just open another session of MicroStation on the second monitor.

Unknown said:

I can confirm that Ctrl+C does still work in a default installation of Bentley View

Define default installation. When I installed View it found automatically the srevre workspace that we use for CONNECT MicroStation. 

Unknown said:

 All of the Copy&Paste options are still available under the right-click menu within MicroStation so I would suggest if this is your preferred workflow that, as DavidG has suggested, instead of installing another piece of software you should just open another session of MicroStation on the second monitor.

That's a brilliant idea. I'll open CONNECT MIcroStation on the right as a viewer (about all it's useful for!) and SS3 on the left as main main drawing program. Thanks fro the heads up.

Just to confirm what we are advising, it was being suggested that whichever version of MicroStation you are currently using could be opened as a new session on your second monitor if you are requesting to Copy&Paste. It was not specific to MicroStation CONNECT Edition as such. If you are working in the V8i version, then open another session of MicroStation V8i. There would therefore be no requirement to have Bentley View installed at all on this system.

Also I believe a 2nd session of MS running on the same machine (or VM) under the same username does NOT count as 2nd license usage. However if you run it on the same machine under a different VM you will be charged for using 2 licenses.

Also I believe a 2nd session of MS running on the same machine (or VM) under the same username does NOT count as 2nd license usage. However if you run it on the same machine under a different VM you will be charged for using 2 licenses.

That is correct DavidG, if the second session is opened under the same machine name then it would not be classed as a second license. Therefore you could actually open as many sessions as you require on that same machine and it would not record extra usage.

But there have been reports on these forums that multiple sessions of MS can corrupt the ucf/upf. Can you confirm that this will not be the case.

Also what is a Default installation of CONNECT View?

So can anyone from Bentley confirm that I wont have ucf/upf corruption issues if I have muliple sessions of MicroStation open.

I'm guessing from the lack of response from Bentley that this actually is a problem, in which case I wont be using multiple sessions of SS3.