GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Lucas Hicks — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:36:40 GMT

Got it to work just fine with the video. Very good stuff. Thanks

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Mike Barkasi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:48:20 GMT

Take a look at the video if you are trying to add Civil Tools to customize Tasks.

CLICK_HERE_V8I_Tasks

Mike Barkasi

Bentley Civil

Professional Services

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Lucas Hicks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:55:27 GMT

The icons are all greyed out at the top to allow copy and past, etc. I assume there is a config variable or something to change.

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Josh M — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:18:04 GMT

Thanks for the information, Robert. I actually had done what you said about editing a copy of the original dgnlib, but I didn't know where to call it via a configuarion file. Now I know. I have stored our customized dgnlib on our server so that everyone who uses GEOPAK in our office now sees the same customized Task List. They can still turn off the display of certain tools that they may not use as regularly.

Thanks again,

Josh Mauritz

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Robert Garrett — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:59:31 GMT

Josh is correct. The DGNLIB is in the BIN directory and can be edited to suit. I might suggest that instead of editing the delivered DGNLIB directly to use the following process:

Copy the Geopak DGNLIB
Edit the copy.
Edit you Geopak CFG file to point to the copy instead of GeopakTaskNav.

Why? - Just a safety thing in case you forget to save your edits before the next upgrade of Geopak. If you directly edit the GeopakTaskNav.DGNLIB it could be overwritten when you upgrade to next version or reinstall (unless you saved a copy of your edits of course).

Regarding the CADD tools section: It is indeed a subset of what you see on Microstation's main task nav group. The idea was to pull in the most common MS tools so you don't have to keep backtracking to the main task nav as often while also not making the list too large. So what you see is what "yours truly" deemed common and useful.

The good side is that as you now know, the task navigation is completely customizable to suit the needs of your organization.

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Josh M — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:24:10 GMT

I answeredmy own question by accident. You have to open the GeopakTaskNav.dgnlib found in ...geopak\v8.11\bin folder. Then you can customize as you normally would. I changed the entire Cadd Tools Task list to be identical to the Drawing Task list. Now I have all of the "missing" tools right in GEOPAK's Task menu.

Josh Mauritz

Re: GEOPAK - Customize Task List??

Lucas Hicks — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:53:30 GMT

I was going to post this exact question yesterday but the whistle blew and I had to slide of the dinosaurs back. There are a couple of tools I would like to see added that are everyday civil aids that aren't there. I tried to add them but couldn't figure out how.