Research links: talk of general cleanup that one should do triggers in AutoCAD are called reactors (this is a good starter article) A colleague mentioned not to do anything that takes up too much time on a document close reactor – because it triggers AFTER the close has been issued. I suggested on a save? […]
1. Start by finding the function that runs the dialog box in AutoPlant, for me this was the “H.I.D. Stanchion Mount Lighting Fixture”. 2.Open Bentley AutoPlant Class editor. 3.Find the function in the “Class List” window. 4.Double click on the selected class to open the class properties window. 5.After opening the window select the methods […]
OK – so I FINALLY have the whole mystery solved of what happens to SySID’s (sys id’s) in the front end (generation) and use (in DWG model files). Ideally they should match – so if you can’t change the source (out of my control) let try to change the destination?? Lets investigate. First, I have needed to […]
A Bentley article that talks about components not getting updated with Spec Gen and how the sysId plays into this. It is a great discussion about how sysId’s are generated used and how they affect things. There are links that take the discussion further and show more insight in how Bentley’s system was created in […]
When I was making new components from scratch, I made an error in the search path and got an error popup – but it revealed something I suspected – an object oriented structure of Bentley where you could override and add classes and associated files – in this case .ebs files. This lists the search […]
[Latest Edit Feb 14th] So, I go to edit a few Stored Procs on my MSSQL database and… errors – table missing – what? I seems over the weekend, all the databases were reset to some time in the past – this means 30 SP’s and 20 tables on our dev environment have – poof […]
Adding new fields to the database Adding new fields to the database is useful in cases were you more information about a component, but there is no corrosponding field in the database to the one in the specs. If you know where your database is you can skip the first 3 steps> To create a new […]
Lets assume that a new spec was created. AutoPLANT has a very clever structure to its files so that the core ones that come with AutoPLANT need not be touched. It also helps when new specs, ebs, classes etc. are added (specs beyond just adding or changing dB rows). This article outlines how to integrate […]
I will be doing this for a support, to do this for topworks repeat all of the same steps except start with topworks.ini instead of support.ini. In this post I intend to add a new function and section under the Cable Tray supports tab. To see the help file for this open support/Topwork browser and […]
This is the process I used to find out how the annotation Instrument Balloons function works: started by opening tools->customize->interface to find the function name for the menu button “Instrument Balloons…”. I found the function “AT_Annot_InstrBubble” was accociated with the menu button. After searching for the function I found it in C:\ProgramData\Bentley\Plant V8i\elect\at_elect.mnl, which is a […]