Installing panaStation v1.x drivers This section includes instructions for installing the ProMotion panaStation driver files. 1)Insert the Multimedia CD into your CD-ROM drive. Change current directory to X:\VOODOOR\MSTATION and enter the following command. install 2)After completing the registration information, panaStation will prompt you for information about your MicroStation installation. Verify that the given information is correct and then press ENTER. It will take a few moments to copy the files to your hard disk. For TIGA installations only, you must copy the file DLDEXT.RLM from your panaStation sub-directory to your TIGA software sub- directory. 3)From your \USTATION sub-directory type the following. usconfig 4)Use your arrow keys to highlight the DISPLAY ADAPTERS option. Press the ENTER key to display the Right Screen Graphics Adapter menu. From the list of available display drivers, highlight Vendor Supplied Driver and press ENTER. Next highlight panaStation from the list of vendor supplied drivers. Press ENTER to continue to the Left Screen Graphics. 5)If you are configuring a single monitor system, highlight No Second Adapter and press ENTER to display the Virtual Swap Screen dialog box. When using panaStation, MicroStation's Virtual Swap Screen feature is available to all graphics boards. On graphics boards using dual page memory switching, the page swap is done using the graphics board hardware. On all other graphics boards, the page swap is simulated by panaStation. 6)To use virtual page swapping, answer "N" to the "Do you want to disable the virtual graphics page?" question. To disable virtual page swapping answer "Y". Once the Swap Screen question has been answered you will return to the Main Configuration menu. 7)If you are configuring a dual monitor system, highlight Vendor Supplied Driver from the list of available display drivers. As with the Right Screen Graphics Adapter, highlight panaStation, by Panacea, Inc. from the list of vendor supplied drivers. Press ENTER to return to the main configuration menu. 8)At the main menu, highlight Exit and Save to exit the USCONFIG program and return to the DOS prompt. The panaStation drivers are now installed on your computer. 9)In order for the new panaStation driver to take effect it is necessary to re-boot your computer. Turn off the power to your system or press the RESET button if you have one. After re-booting change to your \USTATION directory and type: ustation to start MicroStation. Upon startup of MicroStation you will be greeted with the panaStation welcome screen. If you do not see the welcome screen, be sure you have properly selected panaStation from the list of vendor supplied drivers and that you have re-booted your computer. 10)Once you have read through the panaStation welcome message, press any key to continue to the Left Screen Main Configuration menu. You will need to configure panaStation for use with your graphics board type and the resolution under which you wish to run MicroStation. Use your arrow keys to highlight Select Graphics Board/Resolution and then press ENTER to display the Select Graphics Board/Resolution menu. 11)The Select Graphics Board/Resolution menu configures panaStation settings for graphics board/type and display and rendering resolutions. Choose Select Graphics Board to manually select the ProMotion graphics board. A list of options is given, based on the findings of panaStation's built-in graphics platform detection utility. Use the Up and Down arrow keys, and the Pg Up and Pg Dn keys to scroll through the list and highlight ProMotion. 12)panaStation includes a graphics platform detection utility that queries the graphics card for type, Hi- Color support and installed memory. Based on the graphics platform detector's information, panaStation will list a set of Display/Rendering resolutions. Due to the variety of graphics boards and their specific implementations of platform chip sets, the detector is not always accurate. Therefore, when selecting a Display or Rendering resolution, be sure to use only resolutions that your ProMotion memory configuration supports, as detailed in Section 1.3. Press ENTER to accept your choice and return to the Select Graphics Board/Resolution menu. 13)Choose Select Display Resolution to configure the display/rendering resolution of your MicroStation screen. Display/rendering options are also based on the findings of panaStation's graphics platform detection utility. Use the Up and Down arrow keys, and the Pg Up and Pg Dn keys to scroll through and highlight the resolution and color option you wish to use. Press the ENTER key to accept your resolution choice and return to the Select Graphics Board/Resolution menu. panaStation provides you the option of adjusting the aspect ratio of your MicroStation screen. To change the default aspect ratio, select the Adjust Aspect Ratio menu and measure, in millimeters, the height and width of the Aspect Ratio dialog box. Enter the measured values in the corresponding height and width data boxes. Highlight Return to Previous Menu and press the ENTER key to return to the Main Configuration menu. 14)When configuring a dual screen MicroStation configuration, panaStation allows you to select which monitor will display text and which will display graphics. To designate a monitor for text, select the Dual Screen Configuration menu and simply choose Left if you wish to have the text appear on the monitor configured as MicroStation's Left screen. Or, choose Right if you would like text to appear on the monitor configured as the Right screen. Highlight Return to Previous Menu and press the ENTER key to return to the Main Configuration menu. 15)When configuring a dual monitor system a Right Screen Main Configuration menu will be displayed. Configure for the second screen as you did for the Left Screen above. 16)Once all of the panaStation parameters have been configured, select SAVE, EXIT to save the configuration information and create PANACFG1.DAT and, for dual screen configurations, PANACFG2.DAT in the \USTATION sub-directory. After the PANACFG files have been created, MicroStation will start up with the newly selected panaStation resolution. If panaStation has already been configured, upon starting MicroStation you will be asked whether you would like to re-configure. Type Y to go to the panaStation Main Configuration Menu or N to start MicroStation. If you start MicroStation from a sub-directory other than the \USTATION sub-directory you gave during installation, PANACFG files will be created in that directory.