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Windows 10 - Installing Non-Store Apps
Marc Thomas
In the Creator's Update Microsoft have expanded the use of the word 'app' to cover any application in their current terminology. This means that with default settings installing a Bentley application may throw up this dialog: Just turn it off here…
over 6 years ago
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CONNECT Edition - Custom Configuration - Part 4 : Standards CFG File Contents
Marc Thomas
As discussed in Part 3 , Standards can be applied at all configuration levels. As delivered Standards content is configured: At the Organization level by: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation CONNECT Edition\Configuration\Organization\standards.cfg…
over 5 years ago
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CONNECT Edition - Deploying or Updating ConfigurationSetup.cfg
Marc Thomas
When you create a Deployment Image for MicroStation CONNECT Edition or AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition, the configuration stage of the installation enables the location of the Custom Configuration to be selected in the same way as a manual installation…
over 5 years ago
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ABD SS6 - Best Practices - Cached Visible Edges
Marc Thomas
Why Cache? the reasons for using cached visible edges include: Freeze designs In a conventional MicroStation environment sheet files and their source Drawing Models are continually updated as references are modified. Bentley users have become used…
over 7 years ago
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Example Cells Using Text Fields to Display Coordinates
Marc Thomas
These cells can be used to display x,y coordinates or spot heights. See Setting Up in the Real World - Labelling Spot Heights for more information.
MT_FieldSymbols_2016-01.cel
over 7 years ago
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Configuration - Keep Your Files Tidy!
Marc Thomas
When your configuration file is only a few lines long and can be taken in at a glance, how it is set out may not be that important. However once you get into configuration and the files grow, being tidy makes life a lot easier. Some guidelines: …
over 9 years ago
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Site Standards - Synchronising with Level Libraries
Marc Thomas
Having established CAD Standards with your level libraries it is useful to keep project data synchronised with those libraries. But....you do need to control what is synchronised! There are a group of configuration variables that control level synchronisation…
over 8 years ago
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Site Standards #5 - Site and User Function keys
Marc Thomas
It is a good idea to deploy standard settings for function keys and button settings to all your users, even if only one or two changes are required for your site, it makes the settings consistent with your training procedures and documents. However…
over 9 years ago
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How to Configure OpenPlant Modeler to Use Workspace from Shared Location - without Editing Local cfg
Bear
It disappoints me when I see suggestions like those in https://communities.bentley.com/products/plant/w/plant_design_and_engineering__wiki/28289/how-to-configure-openplant-modeler-to-use-workspace-from-shared-locatio n when options exist to avoid editing…
over 4 years ago
Peer Blogs
Bear's Blog
IFC - Batch processing
Marc Thomas
Here are some useful wiki posts relating to IFC Export of multiple files: IFC - Batch Export to IFC using the Batch Processor IFC - Export - Setting the Author Properties for Your Organisation
over 7 years ago
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AECOsim Building Designer - Keynote Tools
Marc Thomas
This often overlooked feature allows specification keynotes to be placed from a predefined list. The basic functioning is described in AECOsim Building Designer help, search for "Keynotes, Legends and Borders". Relevant topics are: Place Keynote…
over 9 years ago
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Batch Over Short Cut - Part 1
Bear
There have been a lot of discussions on how you can access your build and set variables for user, project and even custom variables for client and so on. Over past blogs I have shown a lot on how these can be controlled and set using hta files, but if…
over 10 years ago
Peer Blogs
Bear's Blog
Screen Menus - AutoCAD Color Table
DavidG
For those who use the AutoCAD color table I have created a screen menu color picker. This menu also includes Grey Scale settings (via RGB values) in the lower right. I use these for "screening". Command to activate this file would be. screenmenu…
AC_ColorTBL.dgnlib
over 7 years ago
Peer Blogs
DavidG's Blog
Site Standards #00 - The Standards.cfg file
Marc Thomas
Out of the box we deliver C:\ProgramData\Bentley\<applicationName>\WorkSpace\Standards\standards.cfg. This file lists a series of configuration variables that add paths to some of the sub-folders of ...\Workspace\Standards\ The list is fairly short…
over 9 years ago
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VBA tool to place Latitude/Longitude labels using MicroStation V8i SS3/CONNECT Edition/Bentley Map V8i SS3/SS4 (version 2)
Elivagner Barros
There's an equivalent MicroStation V8i/CONNECT Edition C# addin, for this VBA tool: https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/peer_blogs/b/elivagner-barros-blog/posts/microstation-c-add-in-to-place-latitude-longitude-labels This…
Geographic Annotation tool.zip
over 8 years ago
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Elivagner Barros' Blog
CONNECT Edition - Using Position Mapping to get to Tools Really Quickly!
Marc Thomas
One of the features of the V8i interface, loved by those that discovered and ran with it, was Position Mapping. The ability to drive the UI with simple alpha numeric sequences led to me receiving support calls from some users referring to tools by their…
over 5 years ago
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The Ultimate Portable Build - Part 2 - The appl.cfg
Bear
Hard part done. By using the location of CADmanage.hta as a start point, we've now been able to go ahead and set the variables for our critical locations, but what does this mean for the config files we've been using to date? Well the first of these that…
over 10 years ago
Peer Blogs
Bear's Blog
cfg My Way – How to Configure Your Own Build - Bear's Alternative
Bear
It’s probably the most asked question for any new starter when it comes to playing with cfg files and setting up your own build. As far as many of us are concerned, the golden rule of cfg editing is: ‘ Don’t edit any of the delivered cfg files.…
over 9 years ago
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Bear's Blog
Using It! - Admin reports, AKA listing your stuff!
Marc Thomas
My colleague Shawn McGaffick wrote these four blogs on some of the useful reports that administrators or project leads can run on their data. Reporting for CAD Administrators: Cell Count Reports Reporting for CAD Administrators: Working Units, Scales…
over 1 year ago
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MicroStation - Grouping Part 3 - Named Groups
Marc Thomas
Following on from the introduction to Named Groups in MicroStation - Grouping Part 1 this post looks at the Named Groups dialog. Creating and manipulating Named Groups To create a Named Group just: Click the 'New Named Group' button Edit the…
over 7 years ago
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Adding an Error Alert to a Bentley cfg File
Bear
One issue we have with the build we have been looking at is how do we let the user know if they haven't set the hta correctly. The biggest issue I find is that users forget to select the client or project variable. An easy way to add an error in the cfg…
over 10 years ago
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Bear's Blog
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Best Practices for Dynamic View Caching
Marc Thomas
An updated version of the slides shown at Building Success After Hours in London on 05 March 2105
Events_ABD_AH_2015-03-04_SS6_DynamicViewCaching.pdf
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over 8 years ago
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Comment on Windows - Make sure File Extensions Are Visible!
Cadventure
Update: File extensions on/off setting in Windows 8 affects print output file naming. For example - File extension ON - in Windows 8 creates a correct .pdf extension. File extension OFF - in Windows 8 creates a .dgn file extension.
over 8 years ago
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Comment on ABD SS6 - QuickConfig
Marc Thomas
Hi Adam, Without getting into detail, this comment thread isn't the place for that, take a look at the AECOsim PCF files. All of the project specific variables are listed in there with brief descriptions. You can use the PCF as a guide to the variables…
over 6 years ago
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Comment on Edit text keeps crashing Microstation V8
Anonymous
I am having the same problem and I found out it has to do with the Text Editor Style set to Word Processor. A temporary fix is to set the Text Editor Style under Preferences>Text to "Dialog Box". This works for me. I could not try the fix Gary Manager…
over 9 years ago
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Whobejan2's Blog
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