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Infographic: Bits of Wisdom from CAD/BIM Managers

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InRoads Tip: V8i SS2 Feature Editing – Radius Returns

Written by Ronald Brys.   See all of our InRoads tips on this YouTube playlist.   Last Month’s Tips:                   MicroStation: 3D…

AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Adding Extended Data to Objects

Written by Bryan Sullivan.   AutoCAD Civil 3D allows extended data to be added to drawing objects. With the NOTES command, you can add either detailed or…

VBA Tip: Debug

Written by Rod Wing.   The Debug function is useful for setting conditional break expressions and for printing informational messages during execution of…

InRoads Tip: GEOPAK Corridor Modeling – Cross Section Annotation

Written by Ronald Brys. Overview on how to annotate cross sections generated using Corridor Modeler in GEOPAK SELECTseries 2.   See all of our InRoads…

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 New Feature: Extract Corridor Solid

Written by Bryan Sullivan.   The Extract Corridor Solids command (aeccEXPORTCORRIDORTOSOLIDS) provides functionality that allows you to extract AutoCAD solids…

2013 Highlights at EnvisionCAD – Infographic

Written by Bethany Borsody.    2013 brought a lot of excitement for both the CAD industry and EnvisionCAD. We’ve compiled some of the highlights in the…

InRoads Tip: InRoads Survey – Filtering Fieldbook Contents

Written by Ronald Brys. A fact that escapes a lot of InRoads Survey users is the ability to filter the contents of a fieldbook. Filtering can be used to limit…

MicroStation Tip: Apply Element Template to Shapefile Attachment

Written by Rod Wing.   ArcView Shapefiles contain the graphics of individual GIS layers, but the graphics have no color, weight, or line style symbology.…

VBA Tip: Call Stack

Written by Rod Wing.   When in break mode, selecting the Call Stack button in the Debug toolbox displays the Call Stack window. The call stack…

Top 10 Blogs at EnvisionCAD in 2013

Written by Bethany Borsody.     1. My Top 14 MicroStation Pet Peeves 1.  Move the drawing to 5000, 5000 and rotate so the road runs West-East. Did you…

6 Inspirational Quotes for a New Year in CAD

Written by Bethany Borsody.   1) Have a Goal. Although CAD may not be at the very top of your list of things to improve on in 2014, it’s…

Top 5 Distinctions between IT and CAD Management

Written by: Lisa Polonski, Review by: Ron Brys.   IT managers are typically responsible for licensing and installing software instituting company-wide…

InRoads Tip: RWK File

Written by Ronald Brys. Managing Project Data.   See all of our InRoads tips on this YouTube playlist.   Last Month’s Tips:           …

VBA Tip: Variable Declaration

Written by Rod Wing. Declare all your variables VBA does not require you to declare any variables, but it is highly recommended that you do so. Variables that…

MicroStation Tip: Mouse Mechanics

Written by Bob Mecham.   Mouse functionality has been greatly expanded by the inclusion of useful tools assigned to the typical two button mouse with…

AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Mask or Boundary? What's the Difference?

Written by Bryan Sullivan.   AutoCAD Civil 3D has many useful tools to alter and refine the output of surface models.  We may want to alter the contour…

InRoads Tip: Modeling a Conditional Curb

Written by Ronald Brys. Follow Up on Conditional Curb Openings Tip: Templates, Curbs and Driveway Openings.    See all of our InRoads tips on this…

CAD Technician Joins EnvisionCAD

EnvisionCAD is pleased to announce Bryan Sullivan has joined our team! Bryan provides a variety of CAD Management services. As a CAD Specialist, Bryan provides…

VBA Tip: Object-Variable Naming

Written by Rod Wing. Variable (or object) naming standards in the programming world can be compared to layer/level naming standards in the CAD world. Just as…

MicroStation Tip: Align Tool

Written by Bob Mecham.   From the Manipulate toolbox, the Align tool will help you align elements and text to an edge of an existing element.   Align…

CAD and IT: Not one in the same, but partners in efficiency

Written by Lisa Polonski As a senior manager, you probably question the need for a managed CAD environment when you already have a managed IT environment.…

OpenRoads Terrain Elements

Written by Ronald Brys. A quick look at MicroStation terrain elements created from a DTM.   See all of our InRoads tips on this YouTube playlist.  …

MicroStation Tip: Backup and Undo

Written by Bob Mecham Ever make a mistake? Who hasn’t, save yourself some grief. Backup Keyin: backup By keying in the word ‘backup’…

Comparing Floating Point Numbers

Written by Rod Wing   Transforming coordinates is a common task in many AutoCAD and MicroStation VBA programs. Coordinates in both applications are stored…

Creating a Text Style Standard

Written by Bob Mecham Creating a Text Style Standard Text Style Naming Implementing text styles makes annotating the drawing more efficient in most situations.…

Selection Drag Port-Starboard or Starboard-Port

This tip has been translated to Pirateese in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day. In t’ V8i release o’ MicroStation t’ Element Selection overlap…

Playing With Blocks – Attributes

Now that we have discovered the power of visibility states in my previous tip, let’s move forward with exploring other ways to enhance your blocks. This…

Upcoming Fall 2013 Bentley User Group Meetings

Written by Bethany Borsody.   The Southern California Bentley User Group will present 3 sessions of the Fall 2013 Meeting. Topics to be discussed include…

Error Handling

All but the simplest of macros will need to deal with illegal inputs, files not being found, and other unexpected results. VBA provides the On Error GoTo…

Computing Pond Values

Written by Ronald Brys. Using InRoads hydrology commands to compute water volumes.   See all of our InRoads tips on this YouTube playlist.   Last…

CAD and IT: The deep divide & why they’re better on your side

Written by Lisa Polonski. “United we stand, divided we fall.” We’ve heard it many times, so why not embrace it? Although often mistaken by…