Is there a way to get the "Classic ToolBoxes" back in Microstation CE?

We've been forced to upgrade to Microstation CE and ribbon is taking too long to navigate. I've found most of what I need in tool boxes but all the Classic ones are gone.

Do I need to make custom toolboxes to get them back? or am simply I missing something?

Thank you.

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  • Or listen to feedback given by people at the beta testing stage. I don't read a lot new that wasn't discussed during the, quite extensive, beta testing. 



  • We only upgraded because Bentley forced our company to. We had a solid and stable platform in V8i.

    After the upgrade I was surprised to learn that CE has been out for 4 or 5 years now. The reason I'm shocked is the bugs we've encountered since December, when we received training. These issues we've seen and the number of tickets we are submitting to Bentley are consistent with software in Beta testing. I've come to expect this from game developers but I hold developers for corporate software like Microstation to a higher standard. This software simply feels unfinished.

    The ribbon alone feels like it was created by people who don't create drawings. One way or the other we're forced to make something custom, toolboxes or ribbons, same thing different method. Microstation CE out of the box is not very useful.

    Sorry if that sounds like an angry rant but in a work atmosphere that is constantly "do more with less" we need software to work out of the box. Not customize it until it no longer looks like the standard install.

  • Not customize it until it no longer looks like the standard install.

    Not much help, but I can share my approach, I've adjusted to UI changes ad nauseam. I too used Main Classic in v8i, liked it. Don't like ribbon. But I use it.

    First set to Task Navigation, Drawing has too many branches, good for some, not me. Then create a piece of custom ribbon to add commands not in Task Navigation, I needed 8. Then hide the dam thing to free up screen real estate, to hold that setting you must edit the xml file, due to a bug. File C:\Users\%%%\AppData\Local\Bentley\MicroStation\10.0.0\prefs\Personal.RibbonState.xml line <RibbonMinimizedState>True</RibbonMinimizedState>. Then I've docked common stuff on the edges.

    I'm able to work at break neck speed, as is my wont. But even at r13, Connect is buggy as a 2 week old apple, I'm surprised I can actually get stuff done. This is what it looks like, ribbon expands as needed (well sort of, there is a bug there as well)-

    Connect r17 10.17.2.61 self-employed-Unpaid Beta tester for Bentley