Author: Rod Wing

Rod is the Senior Systems Analyst at EnvisionCAD and has extensive experience in GIS, cartography, plotting, scanning, raster editing/manipulation, publishing, and file/data translations. He instructs MicroStation classes ranging from fundamentals to advanced.
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MicroStation CONNECT: Display Rules

Display Rules are one of the many new features in MicroStation CONNECT Edition. These are a set of criteria that can be applied to a Display Style to change…

MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Place Label

The new Place Label tool is similar to Place Note. Instead of a text note the user places a cell with, or without, a leader line. Using the tool…

MicroStation Tip: Improve PDF image quality in Raster Manager and Descartes

Vector PDF documents attached in Raster Manager or Descartes typically work without issue. Using scanned, or other raster PDF documents, on the other hand, can…

MicroStation Tip: Printing Problem Quick Fix

MicroStation printing problems; we’ve all had them, and they always seem to happen at the most inopportune time. You check and recheck your print…

MicroStation CONNECT: Multiple Application Windows

MicroStation has always had the ability to manage windows independently on dual monitor workstations. To support the expanded monitor capabilities in Windows 8…

MicroStation Tip: Finding a Tool Key-in

At EnvisionCAD we provide training for CAD administrators and advanced users. As part of this instruction we cover building custom function key menus, tool…

MicroStation Tip: Level Numbers

When organizations made the move from MicroStation V7 to MicroStation V8, many of them carried over some type of level numbering scheme in addition to…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 5

Bentley has released the fifth update to MicroStation CONNECT Edition.  Like many of the previous updates, this release is primarily bug fixes with a few…

MicroStation Tip: Flood Methods

There are many tools in MicroStation that contain a Flood method to create a shape, fill a shape, or to complete some other type of operation. In all of…

MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Drop Element

The Drop Element tool icon in MicroStation CONNECT ribbon (Drawing -> Home -> Groups) has been expanded to offer specific drop tools without having to…

MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Place Note

There are two significant changes to the Place Note tool in MicroStation CONNECT. The first change is that the option to select a Text Style setting in the…

MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Drawing Scale

Written by Rod Wing The Annotation Scale drop-down list allows you to change the active Annotation Scale. This list is available via a number of dialogs in…

MicroStation CONNECT: Pen Table Macros

Written by Rod Wing Support for the legacy MicroStation Basic macros has been removed in MicroStation CONNECT. This also means these macros can no longer be…

MicroStation CONNECT: Print to InterPlot Server

Written by Rod Wing MicroStation CONNECT Edition allows for printing directly to a ProjectWise InterPlot Server plotter without the need for installing…

MicroStation CONNECT: UCF and PCF files

Written by Rod Wing MicroStation CONNECT Edition has a User Configuration level just as previous versions. The big change in CONNECT is that there is no way…

MicroStation CONNECT: Organizing DGNLibs

Written by Rod Wing Using DGNLibrary files to store various standards and resources is easy and convenient in MicroStation. This ease and convenience can also…

MicroStation CONNECT: Organization, Workspaces, and Worksets

MicroStation CONNECT Edition configurations are a bit different from previous versions of MicroStation. The basic configuration file (.cfg) format and syntax…

MicroStation CONNECT: Opening the Snap Mode toolbox (button bar)

Written by: Rod Wing In previous editions of MicroStation a common user preference was to open the Snap Mode tool box by selecting the Snap icon on the…

MicroStation CONNECT: Change Workspace and/or WorkSet from the File Open dialog

Written by: Rod Wing One big complaint in previous editions of MicroStation was that when selecting File > Open while in MicroStation you could not change…

MicroStation CONNECT: Advanced Explorer search options

Written by:  Rod Wing Project Explorer has been renamed Explorer in MicroStation CONNECT Edition. Along with the renaming comes a lot of new features. One of…

MicroStation CONNECT: Enhanced Configuration Variables dialog

Written by Rod Wing The Configuration Variable dialog in MicroStation CONNECT Edition has been updated to allow for a more customized display and easier…

MicroStation CONNECT: Select Model to Open

Written by:  Rod Wing In the MicroStation CONNECT start screen if a file in the Recent Files listing has multiple models you can select the specific model to…

MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 4) Released

MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 4) – Version 08.11.09.829 – has been released and is available for download from Bentley Software Fulfillment. The…

MicroStation CONNECT: Element Properties

Written by Rod Wing In MicroStation CONNECT the Element Information dialog has been renamed to Properties. The dialog functions the same way as in previous…

MicroStation CONNECT: Shorter Trial Mode

In previous versions of MicroStation you only needed to communicate with the license server once every 30 days. This meant that if you were working remotely…

MicroStation CONNECT: Model Properties

Written by:  Rod Wing In MicroStation CONNECT Edition the old Element Information dialog has been renamed Properties. Continuing the trend we saw in…

MicroStation CONNECT: Cell Library Dialog

Written by Rod Wing MicroStation CONNECT has a new look – Cell Library Dialog.   The Active Cells buttons for setting Placement, Point, Terminator,…

MicroStation CONNECT: Add Custom Tools to the Ribbon

Written by Rod Wing The Menu Bar pull downs are no longer supported in MicroStation CONNECT. Many organizations created custom pull downs for organizing…

MicroStation CONNECT: New Keyboard Shortcuts

With the new ribbon interface in MicroStation CONNECT replacing the MicroStation V8i Task Bar a new set of keyboard shortcuts has replaced positional keyboard…

MicroStation CONNECT: Bring back the Tasks Dialog

Written by:  Rod Wing As you probably know MicroStation CONNECT employs a ribbon style interface similar to Microsoft Office and AutoCAD. We recommend that…

MicroStation CONNECT: Associating Files to a WorkSet

Written by: Rod Wing One of the many changes in the MicroStation CONNECT Workspace is that the former Project setting has been replaced by WorkSet.  This is…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition – The top five things you need to know

Here at EnvisionCAD we were all excited  when MicroStation CONNECT Edition was released. We had been testing the technology preview releases, but seeing the…