We’re Growing! Join Us. A New Face & A New Opportunity at EnvisionCAD Welcome, Chris! Chris McNulty joined the EnvisionCAD team last month and has hit the ground running! If you…
MicroStation Tip: Create a two line Note element with the leader extending between the lines of text Using typical dimension settings when using the Place Note tool with two lines of text it displays like this: In some cases this is ok, but there are many…
MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer: Optimizing your remote working configuration Working from home is the new normal for a lot of companies. There are numerous methods businesses are utilizing for establishing remote connections and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
MicroStation CONNECT Tip: Place Line tool hidden Starting with MicroStation CONNECT Update 11, the Place Line tool is now hidden by default in the ribbon groups. The Place SmartLine tool can replace the…
