Git for dummies. There is no such book, however, here is a quick guide once you know what is going on. Here is another SUPER link and he deserves some sort of peace prize. Another link is a dummy like resource for newcomers to your team. I have used Git for about a year, but […]
If a piece of rigid PVC conduit is placed in Bentley AutoPLANT, then you will see a red dot or placeholder get added along with it. This comes out in the BOM as a glue. If you place enough of these, it counts the welds. How does this work – can I do the same […]
I have gotten a lot of issues of tinkering with IIS solved before – but never have I written anything down and I have never installed it from scratch. Now, I have to do these steps again so this time I will write them down for myself and others. I will not be using the […]
I always said I would do this and I have hit the last straw since I need it often – here is a list of them all. [1 week later] – some of the items are defined in the [ALIAS] section of the AT.INI file in C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\CFG\AT.INI %APP_DIR% is simple the short directory name of […]
comment lines. There can be too much – but not likely – comment, comment comment use camelCase for variables – classes – use a capital letter to start avoid underscores never use spaces prefix all functions with elb_ or your company name document with pictures use a blog if you store pictures, do so in […]
When you print the spec fields and their meanings to pdf using the print driver I had, it jumbled many words – Hence I copied it here for my own and your reference – I added a few columns for a colleague s well to add more electrical context than the piping-centric docs would naturally give. The […]
This tutorial / step-by-step can be used as a training manual. If you want the log book style article on how to figure all this out see the other article. No lesson in Bentley Docs describes this. There is a help file on linking in the Equipment Modules as a .ebs drawn entity and how […]
This is my log on figuring out how to make new Electrical / Raceway (piping module!) components and I hope to help you know the ins and outs. From this, I made another post which is more “do this, do that, etc.” for those that just want to get things done. I needed to write […]
I am just getting familiar with report services and making a report with Business Intelligence. I think you can do the same with Report Builder 2.0 – if someone would comment I will update the post. I wanted to add a mailto: link with a subject. You are allowed in expressions, to use any .net […]
I am using report services to publish my reports instead of using Crystal Reports for many Bentley AutoPLANT items. Here is my journey over the past couple of weeks: Install the Tools If you set up SQL Express with Advanced Services – this is 2008 (download link) – not 2008 R2 (download link). If you […]