v8i enhancements

I just downloaded Inroads V8i and was reading through the what's changed section and came accross two things that I had no idea what they were talking about.

3GB option? What is this? Help doesn't even mention.

civil accudraw open from the MS tools toolbox menu? It's not there! With a custom workspace maybe it's not loading. Where is this file?

Marc Freshley

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Offline Robert Garrett Mon, Nov 24 2008 5:13 PM
Mark

Civil Accudraw (as well as Roundabouts and Civil GPS) are controlled by additional CFG files. Kevin noted one of these. There are five in all.

Bentley Civil Assemly Location MS - Required.2.0.cfg - defines the location of the civil platform tools. By default this location is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Bentley Shared\Civil Platform

Bentley Civil Platform.cfg - defines some common settings required for Accudraw, Roundabouts and Civil GPS.

Bentley Civil Accudraw.cfg - defines settings for Accudraw

Bentley Civil Roundabouts.cfg -defines settings for Roundabouts

Bentley Civil GPS.cfg - defines settings for Civil GPS.

You must have files 1 and 2 or none of the civil tools will appear.

Then files 3, 4 and 5 are optional depending on whether you want any of the three tools (Accudraw, Roundabouts, GPS)

See also the Civil Enhancements community for some information on each tool. http://communities.bentley.com/Communities/Other_Communities/Civil_Enhancements_V8i/default.aspx
Robert Garrett
Senior Product Engineer
Bentley Systems Inc.
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Offline Karl Detrick Wed, Apr 22 2009 12:59 PM in reply to Robert Garrett
What do I do to get these cfg to load?

my files are in C:\Program Files\Bentley\InRoads Group V8.11\ConfigFiles\CivilPlatform

I think

thanks

Karl Detrick
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Offline Thomas Taylor [Bentley Civil] Wed, Apr 22 2009 1:46 PM in reply to Karl Detrick
Karl,

The quote from Robert is accurate. In XM it was a separate install. In V8i the civil enhancements (roundabouts and Civil GPS and Civil AccuDraw) are automatically installed. The cfg files that 'activate' these enhancements should be in the follwing location:

C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation V8i\MicroStation\config\appl

HTH

Thomas
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Offline Dominick Alteri Thu, Jul 2 2009 7:05 PM in reply to Thomas Taylor [Bentley Civil]

I have the cfg files that Robert noted in the correct location. I ran debug on my V8i startup, and it showed these cfg files are being called. I have Civil Accudraw, but I can't find the toolboxes for Civil Roundabouts or Civil GPS. Any ideas??
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Offline Dominick Alteri Thu, Jul 2 2009 7:05 PM in reply to Thomas Taylor [Bentley Civil]

I have the cfg files that Robert noted in the correct location. I ran debug on my V8i startup, and it showed these cfg files are being called. I have Civil Accudraw, but I can't find the toolboxes for Civil Roundabouts or Civil GPS. Any ideas??
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Offline MichaelGilham Thu, Jul 2 2009 7:44 PM in reply to Dominick Alteri
For the Civil GPS: The tools are integrated into the Tools>Geographic>Global Positioning System. There are an additional 3 tabs to this toolset that are Civil specific.
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Offline Dominick Alteri Mon, Dec 14 2009 3:56 PM in reply to MichaelGilham

My issue had to do with the definition of the MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST variable. It turns out that MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST needed to be defined as " __CIVIL__ " for the "Civil" option to appear under the Tasks menu. The Roundabouts Toolbox is accessed from this Civil option.

My company's custom workspace had MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST defined as something else. Once I added this variable to a configuration file in our workspace, the Roundabout Toolbox showed up.

A Thank You to Chris Key at Bentley for the help!
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