OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Static Scaling for Survey Point Annotation When annotating survey shots in OpenRoads CONNECT Edition using the Element Annotation tool it is sometimes desired to have text associated with the survey…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Append Notes to Descriptions When importing survey data. Text Import Wizard has an option for notes which can be confused for the description column within the survey details dialog. Below…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Update 15 Undocumented Additions: With every MicroStation update, there is a What’s New section in the help documentation that highlights the new features in each release. While working…
Bentley Licensing: It’s almost midnight It’s been two years since Bentley announced the end of SELECTserver. CONNECT Edition: The clock is ticking Now, January 1, 2021 is only a few short weeks…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Custom WorkSet Properties as Text Fields In MicroStation CONNECT Edition we encourage the use of creating project specific WorkSets. One reason for this is to take advantage of the custom WorkSet…
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MicroStation CONNECT Edition Tip: Workflow and Tab Switching The ribbon interface introduced in Bentley’s CONNECT Edition MicroStation platform-based products is generally well crafted to facilitate common workflows…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Projecting the Corridor Generated Ditch Profile onto the Centerline Profile When a corridor is applied to an alignment, the template will generate graphics in the plan view representing components of the roadway such as edges of…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: AccuDraw Compass Rotation In MicroStation CONNECT Edition the AccuDraw compass rotation shortcuts (such as RE, RQ, T, etc.) only work if the Context Sensitivity setting is toggled on.…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Ellipse by Ends In MicroStation CONNECT Edition there is a new Ends method for placing Ellipses. Using this method you place the ellipse by placing the two ends of the primary…
OpenRoads Designer Roadmap During a Global Pandemic Take advantage of this time to prep for the transition to OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition and MicroStation CONNECT Edition. This transition can easily be…
MicroStation Tip: Active vs. Passive Named Groups When using the Add to Graphic Group tool to create Named Groups there is a Member Type selection for Active or Passive. The Member Type settings are as…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Table Editor There is a new tool in OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition that allows you to edit alignments and profiles in a table editor format. It is located on the…
MicroStation Tip: Setting the default font When opening design files you may occasionally get a warning message about a missing rsc font. The default is to replace the missing font with the STANDARD rsc…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Persist Snaps Toggle If you are a regular user of OpenRoads you know that snapping to Civil Objects in a dgn when placing new geometry creates a rule to that element. This…
Ten Commandments for Creating Configurations in CONNECT When we build custom Configurations for clients there are some general rules by which we abide. These general rules are also passed on to our students…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Editing recorded macros The Bentley Macro Recorder (BMR) in MicroStation CONNECT allows the user to record tool selections, data points, and key-in entries. These are saved in a .bmr…
Bentley Products, Terminology, and Versions: Making sense of the confusion The more we talk to our clients, and other Bentley users, it has become crystal clear that many users and organizations are very confused by the terms and…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Disable User Preference settings In the MicroStation User Preferences dialog there are two settings turned on by default that you probably want to disable. The first of these is the Help…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Placing a Dynamic Label with Text Favorites If you’ve done any type of plan production with PowerGEOPAK (SELECTseries 4) or any of the previous versions, the new functionality of Text Favorites and the…
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ORD – MicroStation Tip: AccuDraw Set Origin While working in OpenRoads Designer (ORD) there are many times you need to preform some standard MicroStation tasks. When doing so you may get frustrated that…
MicroStation Tip: Automate Coordinate Entries – Part 2 I previously published a tip on how to use Excel to format bearing and distance values so they were compatible with MicroStation key-in entries. Then exporting…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Managing User level configuration settings To the chagrin of CAD Managers everywhere MicroStation CONNECT Edition stores the User Preference files along with the user’s Personal.ucf file in the…
CONNECT Edition: The clock is ticking Still haven’t made the leap to MicroStation or OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition? Bentley has announced that as of January 1, 2021 they will officially…
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OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Adding multiple Parametric Constraints to a corridor without reprocessing the corridor Have you ever needed to add multiple Parametric Constraints to your corridor, but don’t want to wait for the corridor to reprocess after adding each one?…
