With the continual expansion of windows and boxes that are needed for open roads, we have discovered that work is easier with three monitors. MicroStation only allows for two application windows to be opened. Is there a way to add the option of using three or more application windows?
MicroStation does allow more than 2 application windows"
Timothy Hickman
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Thanks for the hint. I just tried this and at first I thought it's really handy. Now I think it's only handy if you have only one MS session open and don't switch between applications with Alt+Tab - if you open a drawing with the two or three application windows approach you'll get two MS application icons for each session. So if you are working on multiple files (as I often do, up to 10, 15 files open simultaneously) that just doubles or triples the amount of open windows to switch through.
So I'll stay with my oversized window that stretches half into my second monitor.
Unknown said:I'll stay with my oversized window that stretches half into my second monitor.
That's a very strange way to work. At least clearly out of standard way.
Well, for that you should use Multi-monitor up until 4 (the more resolution and size the better - more work area) and no need for ALT+TAB if each independent window is in each monitor. And it's a must working with references. Microstation is a program designed to work with a single open file. Microstation will not be feasible with more sessions, or at least you should be very careful depending what your doing. And you should work with more models from the same file and various models from other files through reference - that you can if needed edit throught activate. And to help you throught so many files for that you have up until 8 independent view where you can see what you want (different models, different files throught reference, display sets, named groups) with the aspect that you want (level symbology, display styles, display rules).
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/113255/multiple-document-handling
Regards
José
I know about the thing with Microstation being built for only one session. But our field of design doesn't allow for that. We use references, in my current project there's about thirty of them plus hierarchies, level symbology, display styles, display rules, text styles, dimension styles - you name it. Still we simply can't work with one "big mama" file that contains all design work and splitting this into various models/sheets/whatever.
We are planning district heating pipelines with a length of up to 10 km within cities with lots of other underground sewer, gas, water, whatever pipes and cables, geometer data, aerial images and other things that are all referenced into the main file. Then I have to create longtitudinal sections in 1.250 scale being placed in DIN A0 (1.189x841 mm) drawings. We haven't found a feasible way to create these sections with all needed details within "big mama" without reworking those drawings after their composition - it would mean referencing stuff in circles (and at least two of my colleagues would be running in circles, too, as this approach would be way too complicated for them). Quite often I work on various details and in the referenced files at once so there's simply no way of opening only one file at the time. Switching between files in one Microstation session would take too much time and would be a real hassle...
Taking that in consideration, for this kind and size of work I would recomend to draw by section joints or PK. This way you don't have to worry about the big mama file that takes too long to open and edit.
For master layouts you'll need to call various references along the pipelines. This is how we handle large projects.
Hi José,
we usually display the section, details, location plan, plan overview on one drawing. We also use the "big mama" as a reference for the plan overview, so it's referenced twice only in different scales. I don't really understand your approach because I can't call various references along our pipelines - it's all in one big reference and it's also an "iterating" process until the final stage. For my colleagues and me it's easier to split it up into single files rather than several sheets within one file. Maybe we should switch to personal messages as our discussion might clutter up the original subject.
RegardsFelix