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US CAD Managers Forum: 24 August 2009

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:00:00 +0100

Monday 24th August, 08:00 – 15:00 HNTB 715 Kirk Drive Kansas City Missouri 64105 (to be confirmed) EatyourCAD is proud to announce the first US CAD Managers Forum event ever in the United States! We will be travelling over to Kansas for the Mid-continent MicroStation Community conferen...

July 2009

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:12:00 +0100

..ok, ok...today is a busy day you know? Give me 5 mins... ...ok. Sometimes it just comes down to priorities. I was doing a MicroStation upgrade presentation this morning and mentioned priorities. I was going to say that once you start looking at element + level + reference, you could get yourself into a whole lotta trouble and end up needing to prioritise your prioirities (you try typing ...

Book of the Month: July

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:43:34 +0100

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BIM: Fact or Fiction? Pt 2: Why BIM doesn't work

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:14:44 +0100

2. WHY BIM DOESN'T WORK Building Information Modelling does not work. The concept of a single building model database is not possible unless we remove any and all potential obstacles ensuring a fully co-ordinated and unified design at all stages of a project. In other words, BIM does not work until we fundamentally alter human nature. When people start to discuss BIM with...

Movie of the Month: July

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:09:54 +0100

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen In total contrast to last month's movie, July's Movie of the Month is the latest blockbuster from Michael Bay, the second in the Transformers francise. I was a little too old to give more than a casual glance to the original Transformers (robots in disguise), so I'm glad I've now got kids who ...

What can you store in a dgnlib?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:22:34 +0100

CONFIGURING DGNLIBS There are two configurations that load dgnlibs: MS_DGNLIBLIST for any library content MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST for interface-only content (i.e. if you add a file to MS_GUIDGNLIBLIST any levels defined in those libraries will not appear in Level Manager). We recommend you configure your dgnlibs in the following order. Never use = for either variable as that w...

User Preferences: What's New

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:00:15 +0100

The following user preferences have been added in V8i: OPERATION > VIEWING TOOLS APPLY TO ACTIVE VIEW MicroStation has an “active view” - which is the view your cursor is currently in. You can see this clearly if you have the ACS Triad switched on. It is larger and coloured ...

The V8i right-press menu

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:38:33 +0100

The right-press menu - that is the pop-up menu that appears when you hold down the right mouse (reset) button - was a welcome addition in MicroStation XM. In V8i it has been expanded and now offers further context menus.

WHEN NOTHING IS SELECTED

Wish List item addressed: Rendering Setups

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:02:51 +0100

Implemented in V8i as Rendering Settings & Light Setups MicroStation V8i provides the ability to save rendering settings and lighting as Styles. Previously this was only possible through saving your settings out to an external .RSF (Rendering Settings File) and importing them into each DGN file. Now Rendering Settings & Light Setups (styles) can be pre-defined in a dgnlib so they ar...

The Full MicroStation Wish List

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:30:00 +0100

Workspace Configuration Vote Instead of only being able to edit the User configuration from Workspace > Configuration, the option should also be there to configure the Project- and Site-level configurations. Note: There is an undocumented keyin that allows the project ...

Book of the Month: June

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:29:10 +0100

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Movie of the Month: June

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:46:01 +0100

Hunger After a tough week I was looking for an uplifting film on Friday night, something to bolster the spirits. All I could find though were OTT brain-dead comedies (is anyone else sick of Ben Stiller? I must admit Tropic Thunder was better than I was expecting though), a few stereotypical rom-coms or Ratatouille (which I st...

BIM: Fact or Fiction? Pt 1: Concepts

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:42:20 +0100

BIM, Building Information Modelling, is the new black. No matter what your role in your company, there’s no way you could have missed the increasing impetus that is BIM. There are many initiatives and committees, each attempting to define what BIM is, the impact it is having on various industries, protocols and standards for the delivery of BIM-enabled content, yet is the message still being de...

June 2009

Tue, 26 May 2009 17:14:27 +0100

We've hit the halfway mark for this year. Don't freak out though, there is still time to cram things into the second half. Ok, so I was too late to see the Northern Lights, but I did manage to cross off the Chelsea Garden Show in May (head in the clouds, feet on the ground?). Planning ahead is crucial. If you're ...