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  • Comment on SpaceMouse Update for v10 Drivers

    Christian Mittermeier
    Christian Mittermeier

    Hi Ignacio,

    thanks for your info.

    I also managed to get it running now. I use a Spacemouse with OpenBuildings Designer and MicroStation CE.

    These are my settings:

    <Signature>
          <Name>OpenBuildings Designer CONNECT Edition</Name>
          <ExecutableName…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Comment on Bentley View CONNECT Edition

    Bear
    Bear

    You're better asking this in the AECOsim/OpenBuildings forum.

    • over 2 years ago
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  • OpenBuildings - Live Hyperlinks in Catalog Properties

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    From Update 4 of CONNECT Edition we added new functionality to the existing Catalog URL Property. Previously this was only capable of presenting the text of a hyperlink. We now offer live links, subsequently enhanced in OpenBuildings Designer to export…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Comment on SpaceMouse Update for v10 Drivers

    Christian Mittermeier
    Christian Mittermeier

    Hi Marc,

    did you get it running with OpenBuildings Designer?

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Floor Manager in ABD SS4

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    This content is superseded, more recent posts on this topic are:

    • GC SS6 - Creating and Modifying ABD Floors
    • This search for Floor Manager in the OpenBuildings wikis
    • over 8 years ago
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  • Comment on SpaceMouse Update for v10 Drivers

    Ignacio Merino
    Ignacio Merino

    Hi Christian. I got a spacemouse wireless working in brcm v8i, openplant modeler v8i & openbuildings CE with no customization at all. I'll try my spacemouse pro in some point in the future in order to check if it's shortcuts work also from the…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Theme Links

    Marc Thomas
    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

    OpenBuildings Designer

    Setting Up in the Real World

    Using it!

    CONNECT Edition -…

    • 1 month ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World - Solids Working Area Tools

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition Update 4 introduced new tools relating to the Solids Working Area (SWA). The importance and use of the SWA has been discussed in detail in previous articles in this series…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?"

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    ’ve been picking away at the whole issue of where to model in 3D space for a long time. One of the sources of confusion is the use of ambiguous names or descriptions for some of the key concepts.

    The following…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    As items drift down a blog's timeline they can be overlooked, so here is an index for this series of pieces:

    The big picture:

    Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?"

    Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Adding information to the MicroStation Title Bar

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Background

    While working in practice and as a freelance consultant, one of my first questions in response to a user's problem, typically "why are all my references missing and showing up red", would be which project (now WorkSet) are you in (perhaps more…

    • 9 months ago
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  • Using It! - Adding Custom Icons to your tools

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    When you create custom tool buttons to add to the Ribbon or Quick Access Toolbar existing icons from the application may be appropriate or you may wish to create your own. Sometimes there may be an existing icon whose pattern is appropriate to follow…

    • 8 months ago
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  • Item Types - Pick Lists and Lookups

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    I've never liked the idea of duplicate data sources and the inevitability of them becoming out of sync, never mind the tedium of double entry. Excel functions can be used to link between worksheets to allow one list of values to used in different places…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Item Types - Pick List Template

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Pick Lists are useful when working with Items Types, they save repetitive input and aid data consistency.

    When creating pick lists of any length or when you have existing lists in some text format, it is far quicker to use Excel to create sources from…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • AECOsim Building Designer - Compound Cells and Metadata

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Compound Cells can be a powerful tool to manage change during the design process. In this piece I'm going to look at an example involving cladding panels.

    To keep things simple for demonstration purposes I'm using a single panel size 1500 x 4000mm…

    • over 6 years ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing : Large Sites

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    In the case of linear infrastructure it is fairly obvious that each major facility along a route will have its own GCS. Other cases may be less clear cut. Take an airport.

    This diagrammatic example (the runways…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Item Types - Populating Items using Lookup Tables

    Marc Thomas
    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 steps…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • GC - Working with existing models

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    While much of the discussion about GenerativeComponents (GC) has focused on model generation, GC has always been capable of working with elements from other DGN files.

    In current versions the most appropriate way to make existing DGN data available to…

    • over 1 year ago
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  • Renaming Sheet Files prior to sharing externally

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    When creating drawings the names of the containing DGNs would ideally all be known in advance allowing these to be entered as files are created. Sometime this is not possible or project requirements may change after files have been named.

    Drawings created…

    • over 3 years ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates

    Marc Thomas
    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 2 years ago
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  • Stinking Pile of Directories

    Bear
    Bear

    So, what does STD_APP have to do with anything?

    Well, while worrying about how to sort out everything else, I forgot one thing. Up until now I’ve been able to keep applications separated from each other, but with Workspace\Workset, most of the application…

    • 5 months ago
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  • Supporting Techniques - Making Configuration Files Legible in Notepad++

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Updated June 2021

    Revised XML files are linked below that contain current keyword lists for MicroStation and OpenBuildings Designer.

    Notepad++ is one of the best text editors around and the one I always use for editing configuration files.

    However out…

    • 10 months ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World - SnakeGrid

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    What is SnakeGrid?

    [updated with Jim Turner's comments; thank you Jim!]

    SnakeGrid takes a linear alignment and lays it out on a flat plane maintaining low distortion along a strip approximately 20km wide each…

    • over 2 years ago
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  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    This article is an update of the earlier Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing piece with a slightly simplified workflow to create the transformed GCS and using different example data.

    Backgrou…

    • over 4 years ago
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  • CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips : Should I edit ConfigurationSetup.cfg?

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas

    [Updated 31 March 2022]

    We discourage manual editing of this file as it is written to by CONNECT Edition applications during active sessions, updating the value of _USTN_CONFIGURATION (in the [Set Configuration] section of the file) to correspond to the…

    • 1 month ago
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