[CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

RE: [CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

Jon Summers — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:29:19 GMT

There have been many posts about the poor performance of MicroStation CONNECT. If you search this Forum, using MS_CELLLIST as a keyword, you can read the experiences of others.

RE: [CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

Adlf — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:11:45 GMT

I am encountering the same problem with OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition 10.03.00.43
Any solution to the problem?

RE: [CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

Stephan L. — Fri, 20 May 2016 11:37:45 GMT

Well, I'm going there step by step. For each config variable I do the following:

Get variable from old cfg file
Look it up in Connect Configuration Dialog (if it is still there)
Look it up in documentation (if it is still there and if its usage has changed)
Put it into new cfg file for Connect

This way I can make sure that each variable works like it should.

Some variables were removed in Connect. Sometimes a variable is still there but the functionality is kind of broken. Like now.

I think it is a little strange that the list of cell libs defined by MS_CELLLIST has an impact on how fast the Properties Dialog can show information. At least in this case I'm clearly pointing at a well defined cell inside of that Cell Dialog. There is no need to search for anything (and also not for slowing down)

Does your system behave the same way? Does Microstation get slower when you define MS_CELLLIST to some folder which actually contains some average number of cell libs (not 5, but also not 300).

Regards
Stephan

RE: [CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

Andrew Bell — Fri, 20 May 2016 04:20:38 GMT

I'm not sure at what point you are with the configuration of your workspaces but as MicroStation CE is a brand new build you might like to go through any previous configuration settings that may have been used in previous versions. This would ensure that the operations required might not have changed in the newer versions. The following blog is quite good in describing the considerations when migrating to MicroStation CE in relation to the workspaces.

communities.bentley.com/.../considering-migrating-to-microstation-connect-edition

As for the configuration variable I'm not sure whether it is due to it looking for all Cell Libraries from the system root but you might like to change this back to the default to see what effect that might have.

MS_CELLLIST = $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA)cell\*.cel

RE: [CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

Stephan L. — Thu, 19 May 2016 11:53:06 GMT

It seems that MS_CELLLIST is the problem. If I haven't defined that variable everything works smooth.

Usually I used that variable for making all cell libraries available in File menu of the Cell Library dialog. I never had problems before with that kind of configuration. Maybe that kind of configuration is not the intended usage for MS_CELLLIST? Or is it a bug?

To exclude the possibility that the slowdown was caused by old cell libs I tried following setup. Although it is not much of a slowdown you can still experience a difference:
MS_CELLLIST = $(_USTN_SYSTEMROOT)cell/*.cel

Can you confirm that?

RE: [CE U1] Cell Library and Properties Window

Andrew Bell — Thu, 19 May 2016 04:21:36 GMT

Following the workflow of having the Properties dialog docked into the right and "areapat.cel" open in the Cell Library dialog I have then selected cells from the dialog. The display of the properties in the dialog is working almost instantaneously. The Cell Library I have opened is the one supplied with MicroStation CE and is located in the folder:

"C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation CONNECT Edition\MicroStation\Default\Cell\areapat.cel"

Do you have any sort of customizations on your workspaces or have them networked etc.?
Is the "areapat.cel" file you have opened the one supplied with this or another version?
Any other information you could supply would be most helpful.