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.…
Safety Update & New Protocol We’ve always prided ourselves in knowing that we can provide the same great level of education and knowledge transfer online as we do in person but we…
EnvisionCAD + COVID-19 Here to support you EnvisionCAD is proud that we’ve always been an online resource for all of our customers across the country and around the world. …
Thanks a million! Thanks to you Last month we reached a goal of ours and it’s all thanks to you! EnvisionCAD reached 1 million views (and counting) on our YouTube channel!…
Bentley 2020 ACCELERATE Civil Conference ACCELERATE Civil is the technical event you do not want to miss. Our 2020 conference, featuring OpenRoads and OpenBridge, with OpenSite and OpenRail offers…
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 & a Heads-Up Ten Commandments for Creating Configurations in CONNECT When we build custom Configurations for clients there are some general rules by which we abide. These…
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…
OpenRoads Tip: SUDA Centering Conduits on Nodes Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into civil products. The…
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…
OpenRoads Technology Tip: SUDA Hydraulic Properties Update Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into civil products. The…
Autodesk Civil 3D 2020 Tip: Block Palette Autodesk Civil 3D 2020 ushers in the replacement of the INSERT command with an all-new Blocks Palette. The Blocks Palette introduces some new functionality…
Face Time with EnvisionCAD We have several upcoming opportunities for some major face time with EnvisionCAD. Pick your date, pick your location, pick your topic and see you there! A New…
2019 IDDEA Conference The Iowa Digital Design & Engineering Applications Group invites you to join to share ideas, enhance your skills, network and influence the direction of…
IHEEP 2019 On behalf of the North Carolina Department of Transportation and State of North Carolina, you are invited to attend the 61st annual International HEEP…
MicroStation Tip: Flood Methods – Part 2 A previous tip detailed that using any of the Flood Methods in MicroStation requires the entire region being flooded by visible in the view window.…
2019 ACEC Civil 3D Workshop Join EnvisionCAD at the 2019 ACEC Civil 3D Workshop where our very own Eric Gates will present “Basics for Efficient Corridor modeling”. This event…
EnvisionCAD – Did You Know? EnvisonCAD was founded in 1996 Initial offerings were providing 3D modeling and visualization services Services have expanded to now include training and…
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…
Happy New Years (Resolution)! According to research, if you’re among the 60 percent of people that made a New Year’s resolution this year, there’s a 1 in 4 chance that it…
Sign up now: Webinars, Conferences, Classes The year may be coming to an end, but the opportunities for you to engage with EnvisionCAD are anything but! NEW Webinar Series New and experienced users of…
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?…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Be Careful Mirroring Subassemblies The Civil 3D command Mirror Subassembly is a handy tool and can be used to copy subassemblies from one side of an assembly to another. When a subassembly is…
OpenRoads Tip: Template Coloring As civil designers, one of the advantages of model-centric workflows is the dynamic, real-time feedback and information we can garner from our design software.…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Hidden Command – LayerOrder We know we can use the AutoCAD DRAWORDER command to change the display order of objects in the drawing, but did you know in Civil 3D you can control…
This way to your best year yet 2019 training courses just announced! Whether you just want to advance your knowledge or you have a whole team you want to get up to speed, EnvisionCAD is here…
OpenRoads Tip: Ribbon Tool Search OpenRoads Designer brings a new ribbon interface to Bentley’s civil design software. This is comprised of Workflows, Tabs and Groups collecting common…
NEW OpenRoads Webinars & Civil 3D Workshop EnvisionCAD is excited to announce two opportunities to engage with us and enhance your skills. First, we’ve lined up a series of webinars that will get…
ACEC Wisconsin 2018 Civil 3D User Group Workshop CIVIL 3D USER GROUP WORKSHOP OCTOBER 22-23 The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin is excited to once again host the Civil 3D User Group…