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Using it! - 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…
19 days ago
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Comment on Configuration Tips - Manage Configuration Utility
Marc Thomas
Hi Tim, I understand XML is used as it feeds directly into the UI in a similar manner to other UI settings based elements and is very flexible for further development. The XML is a structured store for parameters.
6 months ago
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CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips: Use of Windows Environment variables
Marc Thomas
It is possible to set Configuration variables as Windows Environment Variables. This can be useful in some cases. They should generally be set at the User level, not System level. Use of this method is usually applicable to administrators, but may also…
3 months ago
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Comment on CONNECT Edition - Custom Configuration - Part 5 : Separating Project Data from Standards
sebastian jansson
ConfigurationsSetup.cfg _USTN_CUSTOM_CONFIGURATION = U:/ABD_Connect/Hills/ Project.cfg # create Hills_Projects variable to split project settings and project files HillS_Projects = P:/ _USTN_WORKSETROOT = $(HillS_Projects)$(_USTN_WORKSETNAME)/ …
11 months ago
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Stinking Pile of Directories
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…
over 1 year ago
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Bear's Blog
Comment on Configuration Tips - Manage Configuration Utility
Marc Thomas
Hi Loren, I understand the reason that the Examples Configuration is locked is to ensure that MicroStation based applications are always installed with at least one operational WorkSpace. There is a note on how to change this in the "Manage Configuration…
27 days ago
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Comment on MicroStation - Creating Custom Line Styles
Gloria Dills
Why can't it be easy like AUTOCAD. Draw the line you want, edit the line and set the line style. Why so many different dialog boxes within a dialog box? I should be able to Name, type, add points or shapes all within each dialog box that contains all…
11 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…
4 months ago
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Comment on Luxology Render/ Microstation V8i: samples from my ''TestLab''
Eric Romein
Wonderful! Where can we find sample dgn files to check the settings?
over 2 years ago
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KurtS's 3D Blog
Site Standards - Colour Tables
Marc Thomas
Many users have over the years set the variable MS_DEFCTBL = Company_ColourTable.tbl and then wondered why any other colour table ever shows up. The assumption being that once you set a variable for a default colour table that is what you will get.…
over 2 years ago
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Comment on Using It! - Rounding Dimensions
Yongan.Fu
Jon is right. mdlDimStyle_xxx C functions are replaced by a C++ class DimensionStyle which can't be called directly by using calcuator. So I wrote an MDL application SetDimRound to resolve this issue. SetDimRound.zip [Usage]: 1. Unzip this zip…
over 2 years ago
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Comment on Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World
Marc Thomas
Hi Simon, just to close the loop on this question, we added in the ability to edit the Transform description, described in Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing, naming your transforms
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 2 years ago
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Using It! - Colour your models Heat Map style
Marc Thomas
We have some heat map display styles available for certain attributes through Thematic Mapping. These apply to the situations they were designed for. There are a host of other situations where heat map style symbology can be useful. James Manfield of…
over 4 years ago
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Comment on CONNECT Edition - Using Position Mapping to get to Tools Really Quickly!
Eduard Vrabel
P.S. I know how to use MS_TASKNAVIGATION_CONFIGURATION or V8i Tasks Theme. I am trying to avoid this two options all together and just set Ribbon on itself.
over 3 years ago
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Comment on SpaceMouse Update for v10 Drivers
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 3 years ago
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Stuck with It – WorkSpace and Workset
Bear
I tried. I really did try. We had a win with MicroStation, No workspace and no workset. Only to have it taken away again by the developers of the other applications. The reality is Bentley developers have decided to change the way applications, and…
over 1 year ago
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Bear's Blog
CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips: ProjectWise Integration
Marc Thomas
Once the ProjectWise Explorer client application is installed on a PC, integration between it and most other Bentley applications will be enabled by default. Obviously in many situations ProjectWise is used all of the time and integration is essential…
over 2 years ago
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Using It! - CONNECTION Client Tips
Marc Thomas
Here are a few points on using the CONNECTION Client. As this utility is updated more frequently than our primary desktop products always go to the CONNECTION Client wiki for the latest and more extensive information. Right-click on the Tray Icon in…
over 2 years ago
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Comment on Putting ProjectWise Online Part 4 - End Result and Summary
Elvira Janas
Hi! Can you share how you went about (if included in your scope) a way of projects to 'get started' in this set up? Have you somehow catered for automation of creating this PW+SP space for projects? Thanks for sharing your learnings!
over 3 years ago
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Sean Keene's Blog
MicroStation C# Add-in to Place Latitude/Longitude labels
Elivagner Barros
Geolabel C# Addin for MicroStation V8i/Bentley Map V8i/CONNECT Edition This MicroStation V8i C# addin, basically is another version of a VBA application (version 02) was developed to generate text labels containing latitude/longitude values based on…
GeographicAnnotationToolAddin.zip
over 4 years ago
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Elivagner Barros' Blog
MicroStation Connect – Control Workflows via Named Expressions
Bear
With so many changes between V8i and Connect it’s been a lot of work to go through how we can have the same control over custom interfaces, especially when we want these customisations to be dynamic. One way in which we can create a dynamic Workflow is…
over 4 years ago
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Bear's Blog
Adding information to the MicroStation Title Bar
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…
over 1 year ago
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CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips : Should I edit ConfigurationSetup.cfg?
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…
10 months ago
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CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips : Managing WorkSpace and WorkSet creation tools
Marc Thomas
We provide the ability within CONNECT Edition applications to create new WorkSpaces: and WorkSets: For many users these are useful tools; however in organizations where there are strict procedures about project creation, where projects are often…
over 4 years ago
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