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How can I open open locally saved drawing with ProjectWise managed workspace?

Christopher Johnson
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We have a ProjectWise managed workspace, that we use when editing drawings in ProjectWise.

Occasionally, I want to save a copy of a file locally to experiment or demonstrate a skill without risk to changing the ProjectWise version.

In other words, sometimes I want to edit an non-managed exported drawing.

Is there a way open a dgn on my C drive using a ProjectWise managed workspace?

Right now I always get an error that the workspace the dgn was created in is not available

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    I didn't thoroughly test this method but it appeared to work for me (in MicroStation connect at least)

    1. Open a file from ProjectWise with the managed workspace
    2. Go to open a file and hit cancel on the ProjectWise explorer dialog
    3. The regular file browser* should open, use that to open the file on your hard drive
    4. When I did this with one of the example files from MicroStation Connect it prompted me to change the file branding from the example workspace to the one i tested with

    I selected to use the active workset (which is the managed workspace I'm using) and none of the workspace changed but the file opened. That's as far as I tested.

     

  • 0 Offline in reply to Kevin van Haaren

    Thanks for your reply.

    This does seem to work as a workaround.

    There is a caveat, the drawing I open in ProjectWise has to be a checked out and editable drawing i.e. not view or open as read only.

    Otherwise, MicroStation appears to stay stuck in read only mode.

    I am lazy :-D so I still wish I could just open directly from C drive, especially for opening multiple local drawings at the same time.

    But it is nice to at least have a workaround.

  • 0 Offline in reply to Christopher Johnson

    i don't have time to try but the config from the managed workspace goes in the working directory in a folder called workspace. The ones number 0-999 (i haven't seen any over that) are the csb blocks and the ones named as GUIDs are the final configuration for opening Microstation.

    If you can figure out which GUID configuration is the one for the workspace you're using you can probably knock together a config that works outside of ProjectWise, at least for the basic workspace components. Not sure the level of effort this requires though.

     

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    i don't have time to try but the config from the managed workspace goes in the working directory in a folder called workspace. The ones number 0-999 (i haven't seen any over that) are the csb blocks and the ones named as GUIDs are the final configuration for opening Microstation.

    If you can figure out which GUID configuration is the one for the workspace you're using you can probably knock together a config that works outside of ProjectWise, at least for the basic workspace components. Not sure the level of effort this requires though.

     

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