Have you ever wondered what goes here? Yes, me too! This is a route to creating custom buttons containing key-in sequences that can be used in your ribbon customisation. Any key-in that you can compile and test in the key-in dialog can be added…

AKA MicroStation’s Render Farm! INTRODUCTION MicroStation comes with the ability to share render processing around however many machines are available. These notes apply from the SelectSeries 2 release onwards. Note that everything do do with Luxology…

Using Text and Dimension Styles with the Annotation Scale features simplifies all operations that involve annotation. Further simplification can result from using Annotation Cells that respond to the active Annotation Scale. Instead of a range of text…

The end goal of everything I've been doing has been to be able to deliver the ultimate portable build. Over the next series of blog's we'll be looking at how we can use relative pathing that is usually associated with html together with our hta file so…

OK, I admit it. This is one beast of a build and the collection of a LOT of work and work arounds, but what if you want to use something more traditional? No problems, it's very easy to use the same principles we have gone through to date in a much more…

QuickConfig Standard deploys a simple MicroStation SS3 or SS4 network configuration for immediate use or as a template for testing and/or further customisation. In brief run the: first batch file to set up the workspace and a test project second…

QuickConfig Standard deploys a simple AECOsim Building Designer SS5 network configuration for immediate use or as a template for testing and/or further customisation. In brief run the: first batch file to set up the workspace and a test project…

AccuSnap is an essential tool that brings a range of snap functions to your cursor automatically. Working with AccuSnap off is usually a huge waste of time, don’t do it! It is turned on and off from the AccuSnap dialog. Settings menu > Snaps > AccuSnap…

Updated February 2021: Default behaviour with the original sample model is better in CONNECT Edition, however the principals explained may still be relevant. In my previous post on 'Setting Up in the Real World' I showed an example of zig-zag edges…

Four variables will be covered here: MS_CELL MS_CELLLIST MS_CELLOUT MS_CELLSELECTORDIR The delivered standards.cfg includes the lines: MS_CELL < $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA)cell/ MS_CELLOUT = $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA)cell/ MS_CELLLIST < $(_USTN_PROJECTDATA…

QuickConfig Standard deploys a simple AECOsim Building Designer SS6 network configuration for immediate use or as a template for testing and/or further customisation. In brief run the: first batch file to set up the workspace and a test project…

For the next series of posts, download the hta example from: http://communities.bentley.com/communities/everything_else_community/f/289/p/80102/220916.aspx#220916 Up until new we've stay away from variable driven application and stayed with fixed paths…

Don’t Let CAD Standards Hold You Back It’s something, to me at least, that’s just stating the obvious, but so many firms seem to fail the test on many levels. This isn’t just about how standards are implemented, but having them in the first place. I…

Not long to go now to Christmas so I've got a bit of catching up to do. I hope to have a few more blogs out to keep you all going until after the Chrissie break. Tonight I was to go through a really easy way of locking your variables from a single…

For those who have followed my blog about configuring Microstation, here's a little bit more in-depth information about our sitestandard and project configuration files. I'll go through some of the most important definitions here, and explain them. …

A DGNLIB is a DGN file used for the storage and distribution of shared resources. Its internal structure is identical, only the file extension is different. Files with the .dgnlib extension are treated differently within Bentley applications. For instance…

This is a very trivial drawing exercise intended only to demonstrate use of the keyboard to drive element creation and manipulation tools including AccuDraw, AccuSnap and the Position Mapping key-ins. The result is a grid, this is not the most efficient…

Out of the box MicroStation V8i and the other applications bases upon it will generate separate user, docking and panel display preferences for each different project and interface used. In most situations this leads to unnecessary variations as a user…

We've set out client and project variables, but how do we start our different packages. I say packages because I haven't worked in an office yet where we use just MicroStation and just V8i so your build and hta must be able to cater for different Bentley…

Change Links Direction (Reverse) with Ease Downloads : LinkReverser.zip(for SS2 of SewerGEMS) LinkReverser.zip(for SS3 of SewerGEMS, SewerCAD, CivilStorm, StormCAD) Introduction The LinkReverser tool will help to change the direction of Conduit…

Standards can be configured by files at all configuration levels. Organization The Standards.cfg is the primary configuration file for setting organization wide standards. This is the organization baseline for: locations and names of shared resources;…

As we get into the build configs, you'll start to see why the set up of the appl config is so important. Just to remind you, check out: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Build-Kick-Off-USTNSITE-Part-4574598.S.153410694?qid=06b10905-4eee-4f72-bce8-221eec8b1f44&trk…

I was wondering if anyone has experience this problem. When I copy elements I get multiple copies at the new location right on top of each other. I have checked my settings and even though it is set to copy 1 I still get more copies of the chosen element…

To make the best use of the RAM available on your machine set the Geometry Cache Size to about 80% of the available physical RAM. In this example on a machine with 16Gb RAM the appropriate value is about 13500Mb. The current default is 3072Mb…