By Rande Robinson November 17, 2009 1 MicroStation XM/V8i/SS1 November 17, 2009 2 The Opinions (no matter how well thought out they are) expressed in this presentation are my own and do not represent the views or policies of Bentley, the North Carolina Department of Transportation or any other government agency, foreign, domestic or extraterrestrial. (the fine print - Although they should) THE LEGAL STUFF (The stuff my “bosses”make me add.)
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By
Rande Robinson
November 17, 2009
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MicroStation XM/V8i/SS1
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The Opinions (no matter how well thought out they are) expressed in this presentation are my own and do not represent the views or policies of Bentley, the North Carolina Department of Transportation or any other government agency, foreign, domestic or extraterrestrial.
(the fine print - Although they should)
THE LEGAL STUFF(The stuff my “bosses” make me add.)
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What’s On Your Computer?(V8, XM, V8i or SSi)
V8
XM
V8i
MicroStation V8 2004
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V8 to XM
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• Windows file selection dialog boxes• Windows XP-style tool icons• View windows• Transparent dialog boxes• Dockable dialog boxes• Input focus model• Key-in window access• Positional keyboard navigation• 3D PDF content
• PopSet enhancements• Button assignments• Fence enhancements• Element Selection tool• Task-based user interface• Screen menus• Working units settings• Redlining support• Help enhancements• Licensing changes
Laid the ground work for V8i and beyond….
MicroStation XM
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Windows XP-style tool icons
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XP Style Icons that are 24-bit color.
Icons can be resized to 16, 24, or 32 pixels square.
Adjustments found in preference dialog under look and feel category.
Transparency & Priority Attributes
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Priority is a display attribute for 2D files only that adds a calculated depth to elements. This allows you to have a display order so that various elements display in front (highest values) of or behind(lowest values) other elements.
Transparency is a displayattribute that allows thesetting of an elementstransparency from 0% (notransparency) to an almostinvisible setting of 100%.Transparency can beapplied to most items inMicroStation XM
Transparent dialog boxes
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Dockable dialog boxes
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The following dialog boxes can be docked:
• Tool Settings window• Element Info dialog box• Level Display dialog box• Feature Manager window (feature modeling)
These dialog boxes can be docked as tabs, or as a horizontal or vertical panel next to another docked dialog box. The tabs shown in the docking region can be torn off to become floating dialog boxes. Dialog boxes can also be resized when docked
Improved Docking
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Input focus model
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A managed focus model is implemented for the MicroS tation V8 XM Edition. The model is hierarchical with the top level called home.
In this model MicroStation follows your actions and attempts to move input focus for common operations. For example, when you place a line the focus moves from home to the AccuDraw window, then back to home.
When the focus is home, positional keyboard navigat ion can be used. To move the focus home Press <Esc>.
Home — When the focus is home, you do not need to use the mouse in order to navigate tool boxes, tasks, and the tool settings window. You can quickly select tools by pressing keys on your keyboard. This technique is called positional keyboard navigation
Tool Settings — the Tool Settings window has the focus
Key-in — the Key-in window has the focus
AccuDraw — the AccuDraw window has the focus
(No icon) — another window or dialog box other than those listed abovehas the focus
Positional keyboard navigation
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Positional keyboard navigation is used to map the keyboard to collections of interface items. This technique lets you use the keyboard to select tools, opendialogboxes, and change settings.
To enable positional keyboard navigation, turn on the preference Use Position Mapping in the Position Mapping category of the Preferences dialog box (WorkspacePreferences>Position Mapping).
This preference is on by default.
Positional Keyboard Navigation allows you to select tools and toolsettings without needing to move the mouse
Task-Based User Interface
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Positional Keyboard Navigation
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With positional keyboard navigation enabled, when t he input focus is home,the following keys are enabled:
• <Enter> — opens the Key-in window at the pointer location or if the window is alreadyopen, puts focus within the key-in browser if it is visible.• <spacebar> — moves focus to the AccuDraw window.• <Tab> — change to the next element under the pointer.• <PgUp> — next task• <PgDn> — previous task
To enable the display of keyboard key labels as nav igational aids on toolicons accessible via positional keyboard navigation , turn on the preferenceShow Position Mapping Aids. This preference is on b y default.
Button Assignments
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Button Assignments have been expanded.• Double clicking the middle mouse button will perform a “Fit View”.• Holding down the middle mouse button and moving the mouse will•“Pan” the view.• Rolling the mouse wheel will “Zoom” in and out of a view.• Pressing the right mouse button will bring up a “Contextual” shortcut•Menu•Note that if the middle mouse button is changed to “tentative”, double clicking the middle button will not perform a “Fit View.
•“Contextual” menus can be accessed by a single right click or a press and hold on the right mouse button, depending on which preference has been selected.
Shortcut Menus
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Right-clicking an element with the Element Selectio n tool pointer opens a shortcut menu that provides convenient, con textual access to tools for manipulating that element:
• Copy Element• Move Element• Scale• Rotate• Mirror• Delete Element
On the same shortcut menu is Properties, which prov ides access to information about the right-clicked element.
Fence Enhancements
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•Multiple, Named Fences allow the user to place a fence and save it for future recall. This also allows the user to place multiple fences on screen at one time.
•The Manipulate Fence Contents tool now includes an option to Array fence contents.
PDF Support
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Printer DriversNew TIFF and CALS printer driversDefault PDF now Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5)
3D Content in PDF FilesSupport for clip volumes, clip masks, and reference clip boundariesSupport for raster referencesMesh toleranceEngineering Links supportPublish global lighting solutionsPublish reference and level structure to Acrobat v7.07 model tree
• PDF Reference Files
Printing / Plotting
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Printer Configuration Editor
• Print Dialog improvements
• Pen Table improvements1. Support for regular expressions in level
selection criteria1. Support for Tag element type selection criteria
•MicroStation XM no longer uses a “heart beat” to communicate with a SELECTServer.
•Usage is uploaded to your license server once a day.
•If no license server is found, MicroStation will function for up to 30 days before a connection needs to be established.
•Once a connection has been established, and usage has been reported, the 30 day clock resets.
New File Format? NO
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When the V8 file format was created, it was designed for futureexpansion and enhancement.
• All features added to MicroStation XM are compatible with theMicroStation 2004 Edition.
• Understand this does not mean you will be able to take advantageof XM’s enhancements in the 2004 Edition.
The MicroStation XM directory structure now conforms to MicrosoftWindows standards.Document files are now located under: "C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bentley"Program files are located under: "C:\Program Files\Bentley".
MicroStation V8i
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XM to V8i
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Application Window Layout Changes
Menu Changes
3D Modeling Enhancements
AutoCAD Interoperability
Auxiliary Coordinate Systems (ACS)
Enhancements
Change Attributes Enhancements
Color Enhancements
Detailing Symbols Enhancements
Dynamic Views
Format Interchange Enhancements
Geographic Coordinate System Support
Global Origin Enhancements
Global Positioning System Device
Support
Graphics Display Enhancements
Levels EnhancementsModels EnhancementsNamed ExpressionsPrinting EnhancementsProject Explorer and Link SetEnhancementsRaster Manager EnhancementsReferences EnhancementsSelection EnhancementsSheet Composition EnhancementsTask Navigation EnhancementsText EnhancementsUser Interface EnhancementsUser Preferences EnhancementsViews EnhancementsVisualization Enhancements
V8i Interface
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For V8i:Task Window with Tasks Tab
•Includes embedded Main tool box.•Can still open the Main tool box and just dock it as you like.
Drawing is still found as the default under Tasks.
•Now on left side instead of right. •Shown here is the Panel layout mode.
Layout Modes for the display of tasks.
For XM:•Main tool box usually docked on the left side.•Task Navigation with Drawing as a task is on the right.
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V8i Layout Modes
Icon
List
Panel
Click on the up arrow and it will collapse the task group as illustrated below
Task Group Selection
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Even when other tasks are selected, the Main tool box remains shown embedded at the top of the listings as illustrated on the right
Some Additional Improvements
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• Snaps terminology of “from” has been replaced with “point” so it is now Tangent Point and Perpendicular Point. This doesn’t change the way the snap behaves.
• Tools pull-down menu now gives you access to all the tool boxes.
• Activate Reference allows you to activate a reference file so that you can edit it while in Reference Manager (not necessarily recommended but may be single most useful feature).
• Jump To Active Level a new option in the pop-up menu of Level Display and Level Manager takes away the hassle of going through a long list of levels to get to the Active level. This instead “jumps” you in the list to the level that is active. This is useful if your file has numerous levels.
• Print Attributes now has the Points option to toggle on/off the printing of Points.
Match Element Attributes
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There is now a Match Element Attributes tool (it looks like an eye-dropper) in the Change Attributes dialogbox. This allows you to use an existing element to control the settings found in the dialog box. If UseActive Attributes is checked ON then those too will be set to match what is selected.
Crossing Selection
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XM had the crossing option only if you toggled it on by clicking the button until a vertical line showed up.
V8i doesn’t change to crossing option, instead the direction determines if including crossing or not.
Now you can select elements crossing the boundary by going from right to left rather than having to clicking on a tool in the element selection. When using the manipulation tools this can be very handing because if you just want a rectangular block crossing window selection you can do so automatically without even having to go into element selection.
Crossing Example
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Dynamic Views
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•Tools to slice and filter 3D models to remove clutter and simplify view
•Intuitive tools to create and manage 2D/3D relationships to save time
•Automated drawing composition to streamline drawing production
•Consistent presentation of data on screen and in print
•Automated drawing updates to synchronize models and drawings
•Display styles and dynamic clipping planes to simplify 3D experience
Geographic Coordinate System Support
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ESRI SHP file referencing to enhance data richness and reuse.
Geospatial PDF leverages geo-intelligence to enrich deliverables. AEC coordinate transformation to align multi-discipline data.
OGC Web Map Server support to streamline map import.
GPS device integration to capture and transform GPS data. Geospatial referencing to improve information coordination.
Intrinsic Geo-Coordination:
Geo-Coordination Overview
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� MicroStation allows the user to position a design on the
earth’s surface
� Takes into account the curvature of the earth with little or
no user input
� MicroStation can use a Cartesian coordinate system such as
State Plane
� Information from multiple sources can be spatially located
using a common coordinate system
� The re-projection can be done on-the-fly when referencing data
Coordinate Systems & Re-Projecting Data
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MicroStation V8i can assign geo-graphic coordinate systems in several ways
•From a library•From placemarks•From attached references•From a file
•MicroStation can reproject data from one GCS to another.
•When active data is reprojected it is saved to the file (permanent).
•When reference attachments are projected it will NOT write to the file (temporary).
Google Earth Tools XM/V8i
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� MicroStation is able to produce KML files to be utilized in Google Earth.
� Placement by placemarks.
� Placement by GCS.
� Viewing data in Google Earth.
� DGN, DWG and other content.
� Reference, and Level control.
� Transparency.
� Links.
� Raster.
� Google Earth v4 / KML 2.1 Support.
� Capture Image and Terrain.
� Control Animation.
Google 3D Warehouse
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•Open Models•Reference Model•Place Model as Cell•Share Model to 3Dwarehouse•*SKP Files
GPS Tools
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� Track GPS units
� Show current location of GPS unit
� Record GPS tracks without a live MicroStation session
� A geographic coordinate system must be defined to
use these tools
� MicroStation V8i allows users to connect to GPS units
