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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…
You're better asking this in the AECOsim/OpenBuildings forum.
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…
Hi Marc,
did you get it running with OpenBuildings Designer?
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…
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
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Setting Up in the Real World
Using it!
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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…
’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…
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…
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…
More recent posts on this topic are:
One of the first things you will notice about Floor Manager in AECOsim Building Designer SS4 are the addition of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
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.