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CADD Engineering Standards - Ohio Department of Transportation

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January 18, 2013<br />

201.4 Configuration Variables and Files<br />

ODOT uses four (4) environment variables, ODOTSTD, V8iSTD, HOMEV8i, and V8iGSTD, to locate files<br />

necessary for the operation <strong>of</strong> MicroStation V8i in a typical ODOT setup.<br />

1. The ODOTSTD variable is used to define the location <strong>of</strong> the root ODOT <strong>CADD</strong> standards folder.<br />

This variable is assigned a value in V8iODOTstandards.cfg.<br />

2. The V8iSTD variable is used to define the location <strong>of</strong> the MicroStation V8i <strong>CADD</strong> standards. This<br />

variable is assigned a value in V8iODOTstandards.cfg.<br />

3. The HOMEV8i variable is defined in the V8iODOTstandards.cfg file to specify the location <strong>of</strong> the<br />

MicroStation User Configuration Files (UCF) and User Preference Files (UPF). The HOMEV8i<br />

variable is defined as a Windows System Environment Variable and set to w:\V8iUser\ for a<br />

typical ODOT setup, where w:\ is connected to a share on a file server.<br />

4. The V8iGSTD variable is used to define the location <strong>of</strong> site specific settings. The primary use <strong>of</strong><br />

this variable is to identify the location <strong>of</strong> Bentley InterPlot (IPLOT) settings files. For a typical<br />

ODOT setup, this variable is defined in ODOTV8i.ucf file as follows: V8iGSTD: i:\V8igstd.<br />

The following ODOT standard configuration files for MicroStation V8i are typically used for plan<br />

development. A brief description <strong>of</strong> each file is included below.<br />

V8iODOTstandards.cfg<br />

This CFG file is used to set the location <strong>of</strong> the Project Configuration Files (PCF), User<br />

Configuration Files (UCF), and User Preference Files (UPF). See the document<br />

ODOT_Config.pdf for the file location.<br />

dfltuser.cfg<br />

This file tells MicroStation what UCF file to use on initial startup.<br />

ODOTV8i.pcf<br />

This PCF file is the Project Configuration File used to set the configuration variables for ODOT’s<br />

MicroStation V8i <strong>CADD</strong> standards stored in the ODOTstd\Projects folder.<br />

ODOTV8i.ucf<br />

This UCF file is the seed User Configuration File for MicroStation V8i. This file is used to define<br />

any user specific configuration variables for MicroStation V8i. This file should be copied to the<br />

location defined by the Variable HOMEV8i.<br />

ODOTV8iSeed.upf<br />

This UPF file is the default seed User Preference File that contains the settings defined in the<br />

MicroStation Preferences dialog.<br />

For further details on the setup and use <strong>of</strong> these configuration files, see MicroStation Configuration Files<br />

download page on the ODOT <strong>CADD</strong> <strong>Standards</strong> website.<br />

4 ODOT <strong>CADD</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> <strong>Standards</strong>

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