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Configuration - Use Variables in Key-ins to Quickly Open Folders or Files
Marc Thomas
For a long time we have been able to edit MicroStation cells by right-clicking and picking 'Open for Editing'. Editing other resources can involve repetitive navigation to locations in the Project/WorkSet or Workspace/Configuration. We have a couple of…
over 6 years ago
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Site Standards - DWG Configuration Variables
Marc Thomas
Please note that some of these variables have been changed in CONNECT Edition. Three mechanisms are available to provide consistent settings for DWG Import/Export. Exporting settings to a .DWS file for reuse is a good method to apply differing but consistent…
over 8 years ago
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Configuring AECOsim Building Designer V8i - Index to posts
Marc Thomas
Note added 11 August 2018. For advice regarding CONNECT Edition, please see CONNECT Edition - Configuration : Customization Guides . Updated 11 August 2014. For convenience here is a list of my posts about configuring AECOsim Building Designer V8i…
over 9 years ago
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MicroStation Startup - configuration file map.
DavidG
This is a flow chart I create to help me understand the MicroStation Startup/Configuration process. Hopefull the chart will appear with the Blog. 2015/10/31 Added Connect Version
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over 12 years ago
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Theme Links
Marc Thomas
For convenience here are links to search results for several of the themes on this blog: SMB - lists articles particularly relevant to smaller users in the SMB/SME sectors Configuration Tips Setting Up in the Real World OpenBuildings Designer…
4 months ago
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Site Standards - Site Resource Files and Data Files
Marc Thomas
This article was written for V8i several years ago and has now been updated to align with current versions. MicroStation's default data folder is located here: CONNECT Edition: C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation CONNECT Edition\MicroStation\Default…
over 1 year ago
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Using it! - 2023, CONNECT and V8i Tips Documents
Marc Thomas
I have been updating an informal training document written during my pre-Bentley consultancy days to current CONNECT Edition versions. The object of the document is to highlight some of the fundamental operational features of MicroStation and related…
4 months ago
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Using It! - Add Frequent Tools or Places to the Quick Access Toolbar
Marc Thomas
Like most Ribbon UI applications the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) can be customized, before stating to explore this consider where any customizations will be stored. The default is in personal.dgnlib and will only be available to the person who adds the…
over 2 years ago
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User Files – Wherefor Art Thou
Bear
One of the first issues raised during the beta process was the changes to the location of user files. During beta and the initial release of Connect, user preference files were locked to be stored as part of the user windows location. This caused quite…
over 2 years ago
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Using It! - Rounding Dimensions
Marc Thomas
Originally published 4 Feb 2015 We have had a few questions about rounding dimensions to the nearest 5mm. This is not currently available via the Dimension Styles dialog but there are now methods available for both CONNECT Edition and V8i. CONNECT…
over 3 years ago
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SpaceMouse Update for v10 Drivers
Marc Thomas
Current 3Dconnexion drivers use a totally different xml configuration structure to pre v10 drivers. (For pre v10 drivers see my earlier article: Mice in Space!) The 3d Input Toolbox is still useful with SpaceMouse operations in MicroStation, see the…
over 7 years ago
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AECOsim Building Designer - Adding a Custom DataGroup Filter
Marc Thomas
We provide a number of predefined filter that control the display of DataGroup objects in the DataGroup Explorer (Schedules dialog in CONNECT Edition). It can be useful to create your own filters to display groups of objects relevant to a particular situation…
over 8 years ago
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Item Types - Populating Items using Lookup Tables
Marc Thomas
Lookup tables are a good way to avoid manual data entry and ensure consistency. Item Types now have a lookup tables capability. Combined with storage of Item Types in shared DGNLIBs and the Pick List feature this is very powerful. The outcome of the…
over 4 years ago
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Site Standards - Migrating Custom Tools From V8i to CONNECT
Marc Thomas
This article explains how to add a menu with links to useful locations or files in V8i applications and how to migrate the menu to CONNECT applications. The general processes for creating custom tools in V8i are covered in the help documents and Customizing…
over 7 years ago
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Site Standards #3 - User Preference Seeds
Marc Thomas
To make the user experience in your organisation consistent seed files can be established for user preferences. (I'll deal with the possible locations for the UPF and other preferences files in another post.) User preferences will be set to MicroStation…
over 9 years ago
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Item Types - Pick Lists and Lookups
Marc Thomas
[Update: Some of the the techniques shown here have been superseded by Excel lookups, please refer to later posts coming soon from Nov 2023] I've never liked the idea of duplicate data sources and the inevitability of them becoming out of sync, never…
over 2 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates
Marc Thomas
We have been asked how setting out coordinates for building components can be provided using real world coordinates, when we recommend modelling close to the Design File Origin. Recent enhancements to our Reports feature combined with knowledge from our…
over 4 years ago
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AH February 2016 - Intro and ABD SS6 Update 1 Presentation
Marc Thomas
Marc Thomas's slides with presenter notes, slides 42 and 43 updated 10 Feb 2016.
Events_ABD_AH_2016-02-03_Intro-ABDSS6U1.pdf
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over 8 years ago
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MicroStation - Creating Custom Line Styles
Marc Thomas
The Line Style creation tools have not been updated for many years so the user interface and process and the dialog boxes involved in creation can be quite challenging. However, Line Styles are a powerful tool so worth getting to know as discussed in…
over 5 years ago
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Recent Wiki Posts and Technotes
Marc Thomas
A couple of weeks ago I looked into the behaviour of the Compress Options to find out exactly how they interact with AECOsim Building Designer. This investigation produced the following four items. I was surprised to find out how little the User Preference…
over 10 years ago
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Item Types - Using Item Types and Text Fields in Title Blocks - Part 1
Marc Thomas
[Update: Some of the the techniques shown here have been superseded by Excel lookups, please refer to later posts coming soon from Nov 2023] The following example shows how these two features can be used to provide some degree of automation without…
over 2 years ago
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Using It! - Working in Brick Dimensions
Marc Thomas
This piece covers a couple of techniques for working with brick dimensions. The first method relies upon the ability of the wall tool in AECOsim Building Designer (ABD) to place walls by offset, the second uses MicroStation's units settings file to…
over 7 years ago
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Ribbon Customisation - Commands (Custom)
Marc Thomas
Have you ever wondered what goes here? Yes, me too! This is a route to creating custom buttons containing key-in sequences that can be used in your ribbon customisation. Any key-in that you can compile and test in the key-in dialog can be added…
over 2 years ago
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VBA - A general purpose autorun macro
Marc Thomas
In Adding information to the MicroStation Title Bar an autorun macro adds useful information to the application window title bar on file open or model close. This macro can also be used to run any other actions appropriate to file open or model close…
over 2 years ago
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