• Advanced Project Explorer - Configuration Variable Links

    Mark Penn
    Mark Penn
    When you are working on a project, you work with many files, designs and models. Have you ever been irked when you have to flip through many of these files to get to the right model, and correct view? I bet you have experienced this! Agreed, Project…
    • over 13 years ago
    • Bentley Colleague Blogs
    • Mark Penn's Blog
  • Annotation Scale in Create Dynamic Views dialog

    Mark Penn
    Mark Penn
    I will explain how annotation scale is useful for setting your reference scale in the Create Dynamic Views dialog. Once you set the annotation scale for Sheet, you don't need to bother about the Reference scale (Master:Reference (M:R)) factor for reference…
    • over 13 years ago
    • Bentley Colleague Blogs
    • Mark Penn's Blog
  • Automatic Hatching / Patterning in Dynamic Views

    Mark Penn
    Mark Penn
    When you place a dynamic view as a reference attachment on a sheet, you can set up your solids to automatically generate hatching / patterning on the section plane. This is a big relief because you no longer need to manually apply hatching / patterning…
    • over 13 years ago
    • Bentley Colleague Blogs
    • Mark Penn's Blog
  • Building Design - Wiki

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    This area of Bentley Communities provides information on OpenBuildings Designer, AECOsim Building Designer, legacy building applications, and related software such as Generative Components. You will find links to each of these on the left side of this…
    • over 3 years ago
    • OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon
    • OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki
  • Configuring AECOsim Building Designer #2 – Adding a Company Dataset to the Simple Test Project

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Having established MyDataset_NM and MyProject_NM_Light_01 in part 1 I’ll now show you how to add a Company Dataset to isolate any changes you make from the delivered dataset. This is going to involve a long list of configuration variables, however this…
    • over 9 years ago
    • Peer Blogs
    • Looking under the bonnet...
  • How to figure out what the command line switches are

    Inga Morozoff
    Inga Morozoff
    Posted: May 2004 Updated: January 2012 To quickly determine what switches are available: Using the command window (ie: DOS prompt), navigate to the install folder of MicroStation. Key in ustation /? OR ustation -help OR…
    • over 11 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • [Archived] AskInga Wiki
  • How to use DGNLib Saved Views ?

    Mark Penn
    Mark Penn
    A saved view is a view definition, which includes the level display for the active model and references, the clip volume, and other view attributes. It is saved with a unique name. A DGNLib saved view is a saved view that is shared across multiple…
    • over 13 years ago
    • Bentley Colleague Blogs
    • Mark Penn's Blog
  • Infrastructure Digital Twin – Bentley iTwin Training

    Suvam Chatterjee
    Suvam Chatterjee
    Welcome to the discussion forum of the Infrastructure Digital Twin – Bentley iTwin Training. This forum will help you connect with your peers and the subject matter experts from Bentley. You can utilize this platform to ask questions on various topics…
    • 10 months ago
    • BEST – BEntley STudents Community
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  • Removing ustation.dgnlib tasks from the taskbar.

    Charlie Lauricella
    Charlie Lauricella
    Hi all, I've created some project specific dgnlibs that house particular tasks for each type of project, and that wokrs perfectly. However I want to disable some of the starndard tasks that get loaded in from the ustation.dgnlib, such as: Surface…
    • over 14 years ago
    • MicroStation Programming
    • [Archived] MicroStation V8i Programming Forum
  • Run a VBA macro when opening or closing design files

    David Trejo-Rodriguez
    David Trejo-Rodriguez
    Original Article Date: January 2004 Updated: December 2010 Gerald Hernandez , president of Geospatial Paradigm Solutions, Inc. , contributed this slick VBA macro that will execute a set of commands every time a design file is opened and/or closed…
    • 8 months ago
    • MicroStation
    • [Archived] AskInga Wiki
  • Run commands or BASIC macro when opening files

    Inga Morozoff
    Inga Morozoff
    Original Article Date: July 19, 2002 Execute a BASIC macro (or run commands) every time a file is opened. 2003-11-24 Included notes from MicroStation /J's ReadMe file. 2005-09-27 Confirmed workflow in MicroStation V8. 2018-11-26 Updated for clarity…
    • over 4 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • [Archived] AskInga Wiki
  • Supporting Techniques - Making Configuration Files Legible in Notepad++

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    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…
    • over 2 years ago
    • Peer Blogs
    • Looking under the bonnet...
  • Timber joists/beams in 2D Views

    danny-cooley
    danny-cooley
    Hello I have attached an image, in which you will (hopefully) be able to see some wireframe cross sections of some timber floor joists. (it's a 2D wireframe referenced in to a 3D model). As you can see, each cross section through the joists is indicated…
    • over 12 years ago
    • OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon
    • OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon | Forum