Hi people.
Was talking about the Connect interface with and old work mate from previous office.Looks like both agree. Ribbon interface is a catastrophic decision.
Personally, I've really felt disconnected with Bentley's vision on how MS should evolve, I love MS, SS3 is like a Ferrari tunned for race so don´t think I'm here for Autodesk fanboyism.
I got into MS after Acad swtiched to Ribbon. I loved Bentley systems because its unique approach to engineering soft with supper serious and practical interfaces, super powerfull design environment, great 3d modelling tool, the keyboard shorcuts that allow you to super quickly change tools etc...
I could not believe Bentley would EVER switch to Ribbon. I'm so dissapointed. What do you people think? you like it?.
An absolute disappointment. I have been working with Microstation for more than 30 years and defending it against AutoCAD. Is it time to change software? I can not waste time finding out how tools have been placed now, my clients can not afford it. Who has decided which is my workflow, some Microsoft worker? A big BENTLEY mistake. By the way, I still use the "MAIN CLASSIC" menu. All utilities in one, small and accessible menu. Goodbye to comfort.
Well, you can change the layout back to the V8i look and customize everything (and then hide the ribbon bar). I am also no ribbon fan so that's what I did and everything looks and feels just like my customized V8i. No big deal. :-)
Can you do that? Excellent! I have to give it a try. I can't use CE because I hate the ribbon.
Same here. First thing after installing CE was switching it to the V8i look. It's not really complicated - you'll have to check all the tool boxes in your user preferences that you want displayed and then switch the Task Navigation to display style "dialog" in your personal preferences. After that click on that small arrow on the very top right to minimize the ribbon. Done. But I believe there are way better descriptions on the web than mine. But after all I have to say Bentley just added many more ways to customize Microstation to the user needs. I found myself clicking through the ribbons quite a few times just to see if there are some tools I didn't know before. Not that I'd use them on a regular basis but now I can see what they did with Connect. In the end it's not too bad of a change. The good thing is that they left us the option to switch back to the user interface we are used to so we don't _have_ to use the ribbons.
Yrjo Ala-Heikkila,
You can follow this link to find out how to change the look of CONNECT to match V8i.
https://envisioncad.com/tips/microstation-connect-bring-back-the-tasks-dialog/
Rod WingSenior Systems Analyst