1. Typical default location of OpenBridgeModeler.cfg file:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\OpenBridgeModeler 2024.00\OpenBridgeModeler\config\appl
2. We only recommend modifying the information in the section marked as OBM with the following header
#######################
# OpenBridge Modeler #
#######################
3. # at the start of any line denotes a comment line.
4. Steel Section Properties:
We have filters to control what you see from all the available SPC server templates.
To see what’s available, open the SPC management studio, which is installed with OBM:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\Engineering\SPC Server v8i SS4\Tools\Bentley.Structural.PropertyCatalog.ManagementStudio.exe"
You should have this already on your machine. It shows you all the available templates in SPC.
What you see in OBM is a subset of it that is filtered out using config variables (with regex formatting).
Look in the OBM config file for this section:
# SPC filters
#OBM_SPC_ORGANIZATION=AISC
#OBM_SPC_VERSION=14
#OBM_SPC_FILTER=(\-W$|\-S$)
#OBM_SPC_CROSSFRAME_FILTER=(\-L$|\-C$|\-MC$|\-W$|\-S$|\-WT$)
These are the defaults, and they are commented out. You can activate any of those filters by removing the # from the beginning of the line and then modifying the value of the regex filter.
5. Path or Location of Library files
# The two variables below: OBM_TEMPLATE_FILE and OBM_PIER_TEMPLATE_FILE
# support .xml and .dgnlib files. If the file specified by these variables did not exist, OBM will automatically create blank ones.
# If the variables are commented out, the default example files provided by OBM will be used instead.
#OBM_TEMPLATE_FILE = C:/path_to_templates/templates.xml
#OBM_PIER_TEMPLATE_FILE = C:/path_to_templates/piers.xml
#OBM_MATERIAL_FILE = C:/path_to_templates/MaterialLibrary.xml
OBM_LEAP_BEAMS_TEMPLATE_FILE = $(MSDIR)PBModeler/templates/default.cs1
#OBM_AUX_CELLLIST = C:/path_to_templates/AuxLib.cel
#OBM_BEARING_CELLLIST = C:/path_to_templates/BearingLib.cel
#OBM_PIER_CELLLIST = C:/path_to_templates/PierLib.cel
6. Template viewer background color and font color settings
For Background:
For Black:
OBM_DGNNAV_BACKGROUND_COLOR_RGB=0,0,0
For White:
OBM_DGNNAV_BACKGROUND_COLOR_RGB=255,255,255
For Font:
OBM_DGNNAV_TEXT_COLOR = 1