CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Bill F — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 03:35:19 GMT

Thanks all - I was able to solve this. I had not downloaded all of the files from NYSDOT, otherwise the above solution worked for me.

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

MaryB — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:19:53 GMT

Not necessarily. It's entirely possible that the actual CFG file has paths that reference to the Organization-Civil folder structure. You could copy the files into the Organization folder, but the path variables would still refer to the ...Civil folder structure, which would be missing.

Would you be able to share a screen shot of your MicroStation ...\Configuration\ directory structure, and the contents of your MicroStation WorkSpaceSetup.cfg file?

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Bill F — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:08:58 GMT

but actually you shouldn't even need to do this. Should we not be able to copy the NYSDOT_Standards_T folder and NYSDOT_Standards_T.cfg to the microstation workspaces folder?

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Bill F — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:58:19 GMT

I did, but I am unsure how/where to add that variable. I copied the Organization-Civil folder from the ORD configuration directory to the MicroStation configuration directory and copy/pasted that variable to the workspacesetup.cfg and it doesn't seem to be working.

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Markee Cecero — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:44:50 GMT

Did you see the **verified response** above from Kevin van haaren?

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Bill F — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:35:33 GMT

Hello - I'm having the same issue with the NYSDOT standards, freezing when I try to select the workspace. Would you be willing to post a copy of your workspacesetup.cfg file so I can see what needs to be added for MicroStation? My ORD also freezes.

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Stephen Ellis — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:42:08 GMT

Thanks for the reply, it helped)

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Markee Cecero — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 14:19:18 GMT

Thank you this worked!

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Kevin van Haaren — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:15:24 GMT

I took a quick spin through NYSDOT's connect standards and Mary is correct.

Generally with an ORD based workspace all or most of the resource files will be placed in the Organization-Civil\DOT_Name folder. The workspace will then load those resources using a variable $(CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_STANDARDS) for the path. That path uses $(CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_ROOT) as the basis for the path.

In ORD the CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_ROOT variable is defined in the WorkSpaceSetup.cfg file. It is not defined in the WorkSpaceSetup.cfg that ships with MicroStation. If you put the Organization-Civil folder in your Microstation folder you should be able to add:

CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_ROOT           = $(_USTN_CONFIGURATION)Organization-Civil/

to MicroStation's WorkSpaceSetup.cfg and have it work

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

MaryB — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:02:17 GMT

While I can't see Exactly what your directory structure looks like, I have a suspicion about what is going on. These are OpenRoads standards, which include not only the Workspace, but the Organization-Civil standards. Plain Microstation does not recognize the Organization-Civil directory, so it's possible there is something critical not being found.

My plain Microstation directory structure looks like this:

While my OpenRoads directory looks like:

It's possible that if you just installed the "Organization-Civil" directory into plain MicroStation, that it isn't reading something.

Also, MicroStation Connect Release 10 is fairly old - they are up to Release 17 by this point.

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

Markee Cecero — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:51:36 GMT

MicroStation Connect Edition 10.10

NYSDOT And yes we followed the installation guide.

RE: CONNECT: followed the directions to install our DOT workspace files and they look like they loaded but I am unable to select them at the start up, it freezes.

MaryB — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:16:54 GMT

There's a lot to this, and we need a lot more information.

What version of MicroStation are you using? Specific version numbers (10.xx.xx.xxx) are most helpful.
Is this a MicroStation workspace, or an OpenRoads workspace? If it is OpenRoads, are you sure that the version your DOT uses is the same that you use?
Where did you install this workspace?
What DOT is it? Do they have any kind of installation guide, or is it just a file to unzip?
Have you tried to contact the DOT CAD support? While most workspaces are provided "as-is", the CAD people are often kind enough to answer a question or two.