MicroStation Champions Tips and Tricks Session

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MicroStation Champions Tips and Tricks Session
Shawn Foster - HNTB
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Standards management and administration
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Standards Management and Use

• KIS Keep It Simple
• Hire Smart People
• Communicate
• Repeat

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Hire Smart People

• If youre dumb, hire smart people
• If youre smart, hire smart people that disagree
  with you.
• - Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night

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Standards Management

• Some tools and thoughts within MicroStation to
  help you on your way

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DGNLibs

• Been around since the beginning for V8 (6 years!)
• Holds levels, symbology, Text Styles, Dimension
  Styles, etc
• Useem.
• Go to Session x to learn about them
• Not going to bore you here with this one

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Dimension Audit

• Oldie but a goodie
• Checks for

Overridden Text
Lost Associations
Non-Associated
Dropped Dims
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Cell Index

• Do you use CELLUTIL to document your cells?
• Its built in XM!

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Cell Index Settings

• Based on text size

Pretty self explanatory
Anyone still use these?
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Cell Index
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Element Templates

• Parameters or The Recipe
• Can set symbology, settings, hatching, etc
• Can be connected to Tools
• Can be set up as a tree

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Element Templates

• Can be connected to Tools

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Element Templates

• Can be connected to Tasks

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Element Templates

• See Sessions for details
• But heres a couple of ideas

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Element Templates

• Import Settings Manager file

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Element Templates

• Import Settings Manager file

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Element Templates

• BarMenu to Templates
• Free tool at MicroStation.Bentley.com

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Element Templates

• BarMenu to Templates

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Element Templates
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Standards Checker

• Additions Element Templates

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Standards Checker

• Oldies but Goodies SC Ref Checks

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Standards Checker

• Oldies but Goodies SC Ref Checks

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XML report file w/ SCREF VBA loaded
You need the style sheet (.XSL), and you can edit
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XML report file w/ SCREF VBA loaded
You need the style sheet (.XSL), and you can edit
to suit your need
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Workspace Management
Plus ça change,
plus c'est la même chose.
The more things change,
the more they stay the same.
Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
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Standards Management and Use

• KIS Keep It Simple
• Simple is easy to maintain
• Easy to faster to change
• The more complicated you make your workspace, the
  harder it will be for others to troubleshoot

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My opinion Dont do this
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Checking for the network

• Server//SERVERNAME/CADDRESOURCESHARE
• if exists ((SERVER))
• COMPANYNAME_NETWORK 1
• else
• undef COMPANYNAME_NETWORK
• SERVER C/CADDRESOURCESHARE/
• endif
• if exists((SERVER)(MSTNVER)/workspace/standards
  /SITE.cfg)
• include (SERVER)(MSTNVER)/workspace/standards/
  SITE.cfg
• endif

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DWG variables

• To use when you want to use DWG mode, but get
  specific on what the client wants
• Some do this at the Site level
• I suggest at the Project level

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Standardize

• Same Workspace everywhere
• Replicate
• Robocopy
• XCOPY is there, too, but we like Robocopy
• Part of the Microsoft Windows Resource kit
• Lots of options switches

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Robocopy our Options

• /tee - output to console window, as well as the
  log file
• .
• /z - copy files in restartable mode (survive
  network glitch)
• /mir - /MIR MIRror a directory tree -
  equivalent to /PURGE plus all subfolders (/E)
• /np - /NP No Progress - don't display copied
• /r5 - number of Retries on failed copies -
  default is 1 million
• /w5 - Wait time between retries - default is 30
  seconds

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WinBatch helps us tremendously
www.winbatch.com

• .bat files black box for normal users
  (sometime)
• WinBatch gives the users a warm fuzzy as to
  whats going on

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License Updater
Helps both installers and end users
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Configuration Updater
Helps both installers and end users
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I make glass tubes

• Philo Farnsworth invented TV

But his brother-in-law helped make it happen
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I make glass tubes

• As CAD Management and Standards Bearers, we may
  not know everything about what the designers or
  production staff does.

But we can help create an STANDARD environment
to help them realize their ideas
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Thanks!sfoster_at_hntb.com
MicroStation Champions Tips and Tricks Session
Shawn Foster - HNTB