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…

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…

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…

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…

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: …

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…