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  • CONNECT Edition - Which version is offered by automatic update?

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Bentley's CONNECTION Client will, unless told not to by installation options or user preferences, offer to update enabled CONNECT Edition applications. Like most other software update features, the update offered will always be the latest release. This…
    • Fri, Oct 30 2020
  • CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips: ProjectWise Integration

    Marc Thomas
    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…
    • Mon, Oct 5 2020
  • Using It! - Rounding Dimensions

    Marc Thomas
    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 Edition…
    • Thu, Aug 20 2020
  • Using It! - CONNECTION Client Tips

    Marc Thomas
    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 your…
    • Mon, Jul 27 2020
  • GC - Working with existing models

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    While much of the discussion about GenerativeComponents (GC) has focused on model generation, GC has always been capable of working with elements from other DGN files. In current versions the most appropriate way to make existing DGN data available to…
    • Tue, Jun 30 2020
  • OpenBuildings - Live Hyperlinks in Catalog Properties

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    From Update 4 of CONNECT Edition we added new functionality to the existing Catalog URL Property. Previously this was only capable of presenting the text of a hyperlink. We now offer live links, subsequently enhanced in OpenBuildings Designer to export…
    • Fri, Jun 26 2020
  • CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips : User Preferences in OneDrive or Other Locations

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Background For decades canny administrators have been locating MicroStation's user preferences on a server share for ease of management and, most importantly, to enable user profiles to roam with each user in situations where IT does not roam user profiles…
    • Fri, May 22 2020
  • CONNECT Edition - Configuration Tips : Switch to local configuration (for home working)

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Previous articles have described how to use ConfigurationSetup.cfg to redirect your applications to a networked configuration. [Note that another option for sharing configurations is to store them in a ProjectWise 365 /ProjectWise Drive project. This…
    • Thu, Mar 19 2020
  • Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    We have been asked how setting out coordinates for building components can be provided using real world coordinates, when we recommend modelling close to the Design File Origin. Recent enhancements to our Reports feature combined with knowledge from our…
    • Thu, Feb 13 2020
  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing : Large Sites

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World In the case of linear infrastructure it is fairly obvious that each major facility along a route will have its own GCS. Other cases may be less clear cut. Take an airport. This diagrammatic example (the runways…
    • Fri, Nov 29 2019
  • Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    As items drift down a blog's timeline they can be overlooked, so here is an index for this series of pieces:
    • Fri, Nov 29 2019
  • Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?"

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World ’ve been picking away at the whole issue of where to model in 3D space for a long time. One of the sources of confusion is the use of ambiguous names or descriptions for some of the key concepts. The following…
    • Thu, Nov 28 2019
  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing by Footprint

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World Following the techniques used in Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update, a similar approach uses individual facility/building footprints as the guiding geometry. This allows the individual…
    • Thu, Nov 28 2019
  • Windows - Renaming multiple items

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    This is a handy tip for configuration management in Windows 10. If you select dissimilar items in Windows File Explorer, in this example, a WorkSpace folder and it's CFG file, copying them obviously results in <file/foldername> - Copy.xxx, etc. However…
    • Fri, Oct 4 2019
  • Item Types - Populating Items using Lookup Tables

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Lookup tables are a good way to avoid manual data entry and ensure consistency. Item Types now have a lookup tables capability. Combined with storage of Item Types in shared DGNLIBs and the Pick List feature this is very powerful. The outcome of the steps…
    • Fri, Aug 2 2019
  • Windows - Make sure File Extensions Are Visible!

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    For some reason Microsoft decided that hiding file extensions in Windows was a good idea. This is fine if you are just wanting to distinguish between,say, Word or Excel documents. However once you get beyond the obvious icons, as we often do in AEC, not…
    • Fri, Jun 28 2019
  • Setting Up in the Real World - SnakeGrid

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World What is SnakeGrid? [updated with Jim Turner's comments; thank you Jim!] SnakeGrid takes a linear alignment and lays it out on a flat plane maintaining low distortion along a strip approximately 20km wide each…
    • Mon, Jun 24 2019
  • Renaming Sheet Files prior to sharing externally

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    When creating drawings the names of the containing DGNs would ideally all be known in advance allowing these to be entered as files are created. Sometime this is not possible or project requirements may change after files have been named. Drawings created…
    • Tue, May 14 2019
  • Bentley View CONNECT Edition

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Bentley View CONNECT Edition was first released on Monday 4 February, Update 12 is now available. This is Bentley's free file viewer for DGN files and ALL the other formats that MicroStation users will be used to accessing: It is a viewing application…
    • Sun, Apr 14 2019
  • MicroStation - Creating Custom Line Styles

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    The Line Style creation tools have not been updated for many years so the user interface and process and the dialog boxes involved in creation can be quite challenging. However, Line Styles are a powerful tool so worth getting to know as discussed in…
    • Mon, Mar 11 2019
  • Setting Up in the Real World - Solids Working Area Tools

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition Update 4 introduced new tools relating to the Solids Working Area (SWA). The importance and use of the SWA has been discussed in detail in previous articles in this series…
    • Thu, Nov 1 2018
  • Using It! - Colour your models Heat Map style

    Marc Thomas
    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…
    • Tue, Oct 9 2018
  • Using it! - Input Focus

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Focus is where input from the keyboard will take effect. Unlike an application such as Microsoft Word, where the input focus is essentially either in the document or in a dialog; MicroStation has several points where keyboard input can be applied. While…
    • Thu, Aug 9 2018
  • Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing, naming your transforms

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 (and AECOsim Building Designer Update 4) we have introduced the ability to edit the description of an attached GCS. Previous articles in this series utilised individual…
    • Mon, Jul 16 2018
  • CONNECT Edition - Edit WorkSet CFG in Configuration UI

    Marc Thomas
    Marc Thomas
    The CONNECT Edition Configuration variables dialog is considerably more user friendly than its V8i predecessor, offering more space, column sorting and other improvements. However, one apparent limitation is that any changes made are saved to the current…
    • Sun, Jun 17 2018
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