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MicroStation Tips and Tricks

Inga Morozoff, Bentley Systems, In

2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated.

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Add Separator to Context Menu T

ALT+DATA to Match Attributes- Toelement, and press ALT+Data. The aproductive, reconfigure ALT+DATA to

Auto Focus Tool Settings When eHome position when Reset is pressed.pressing O. If you need to go home, j

Bentley DGN Preview Handler-Thefile inside an application. The Bentley

Change Reference View- In this editi

Orientation column in the References

Colour Enhancements- The followinand home) Nylon Brights TN, PANTO

Ctrl + Tentative Use this combinatioTentative + O

Clip Volume Tools- A submenu for t

Compress Options- A new setting ireferences. The setting for this checkselect All from the pop-up menu.

Debug Run a debug report from wit

Delete Customization- Use CUSTOfrom a DGN file. Note that this key in i

Drag and Drop to Attribute PickersAttributes toolbox and drop it on the icdrag the element and drop it on the AcPreview box in the Attributes toolbox,attributes of an existing element.

Drag selection support during maniby dragging a window around them. Iafter the first group has been selected.

elements. Note that this is not a Selec

Element Selection Tabs- Five attribuor all of these tabs, right-click on the aattributes.

Elements Under Transparent Dialogand drag into the dialog. For exampleis active, enter a data point and drag t


add a separator to a context menu, create a new menu item a

quickly match an elements level, colour, line style or line weightive attributes will change to match the element under the point

execute the key in MATCH ELEMENT FROMCURSOR which i

abled, this workspace preference prevents the input focus froInstead the focus stays in AccuDraw which makes it a snap to

st press ESC.

entley DGN Preview Handler allows you to see the contents oGN Preview Handler is part of the Bentley DGN Reader for Wi

on you can change the orientation of the reference attachment

ialog.

g color books have been added in MicroStation V8i SELECTseE f+h (fashion and home) New Colors and RAL EFFECT

n of keys to quickly move the AccuDraw compass to the point

e clip volume tools has been added to the Reset Pop-up menu

the Compress Options dialog allows you t compress the openox is not saved when you exit the product. Also, to check all

hin MicroStation with this handy key in: %ustation -debug

IZE DELETEALLDATA to delete all template data, custom toos supported by MicroStations Undo.

Position the Element Selection arrow over an element, when in for the setting. For example, to set the Active Line Weight to

tive Line Weight icon in the Attributes toolbox. If you enable thou can use the drag and drop technique to change all of the a

pulate commands- After selecting a manipulation tool, you caaddition, the manipulate tools support the drag window at theYou can then hold the CTRL down to add additional elements

tion Set.

tes tabs, which are hidden by default, are added to the Elementributes section of the tool settings window. From the menu tha

s- To enter datapoints or snap points under a transparent dia, to snap to an existing element that lies under a transparent die left mouse button to the target element.

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nd set the label as a hyphen.

: hold the pointer over theer. To be even morethe SmartMatch tool.

moving automatically to theposition a new origin by

a DGN file without opening theindows 7.

by clicking the reference's

ies 3: PANTONE f+h (fashion

napped to. Same as doing

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DGN file as well as allptions, do a right-click and

lbox, tool, task, and menu data

highlights, drag it to thematch an element's line weight,e display of the Symbologyove settings to match the

n now select multiple elementsbeginning of the command, oror CTRL +Drag for multiple

t Selection tool. To display onet opens, turn on the desired

log, hold the left button downlog and while Place Smartline


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Expand Set Use the Expand Set kea configuration variable definition and

Eye Dropper In the True Colour tabmonitor to select a colour.

Flashing Filled Shapes- To stop filleView Options and turn on Auto-Locate

Geo-Coordination- MicroStation V8idesign contents on the earths surfacewhich the geographic location is know

Grouped Dialogs You can now gro

DMSG SINKALL TOGGLE to minimiz

Google Maps Integration- A new toomap.

Local Transforms- You can now appgeographic coordinate system. If thecorrectly positioning a reference attac

Markers- A marker is a transient iconmarker, a Mini toolbar displays. Marke

Merge Reference Mask- If you wantContents check box turned on. When

master file. You can edit the elementsfrom the Named Groups dialog.

Mesh From Points- New direction opincluding relative to the selected view.

MS_LEVEL_USE_ASCII_NAME_SOorder. With it set: 1, 10, 2, 20 With

Named Groups (Quicksets) for Refeneed in a named group or quickset. T


-in to define a configuration variable for the remainder of the cave it in the UCF file, use the EXPAND SETSAVE key-in.

of the Active Colour dialog, you can select, hold and drag the e

shapes from flashing as the pointer moves over them, go toDisplay Thin Edges in Overlay.

contains new Geo-Coordination features. These features let yo. Once that posit ion is established, the design can be easily co.

p docked dialogs together so that they unroll together. Of cour

and maximize open dialogs.

l allows you to open Google Maps in the browser with the sele

ly a known mathematical transform to available data and get thalues are not known, simply calculate the geographic coordinament that has a GCS and pulling the GCS from that reference

that indicates the presence of a saved view, link or markup. Wrs are stored locally in the model and can be toggled via the Vi

o edit a part of a reference, you can use the Set Reference Cliou create a clip mask with this check box turned on, the mask

within the mask. The copied elements are grouped as a named

tions in MicroStation SS3 supports creating meshing using a v

T- When set, it will cause Level Manager and Level Display toout it set the order is: 1, 2, 10, 20

rences To filter the attachment of complex models as referenhen attach the group as a reference rather than the contents of

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rrent design session. To specify

yedropper to anywhere on your

orkspace > Preferences >

u specify the position of yourrdinated with other data for

se you can still use the old

ted location in the center of the

coordinates in a standarde system for a model byttachment.

hen you hold the pointer over aw Attributes dialog.

Mask tool with the Merge Maskd elements are copied into the

group, which can be managed

riety of different directions

sort names according to ASCII

ces, first put the elements youthe entire model.


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On The Fly Links- MicroStation enabclick the element and open the files thspecifications and costs for beams, oradd links to elements. To add a key-inselect a model from the model dialog,model will be automatically created. Selement without a link, you can selectLink, or Remove Link. If you right-click

Open Windows Explorer to Active Falternate is $ % explorer /e, /select, $

Point Clouds Integration of the Poindata from laser scanners. A few cool t

clip the point cloud, assign the point clScale), and change the size of the ppoints are visible.

Project Explorer- The Project Exploricon for the Project Explorer is now vis

Quick Info- Rather than using the Elethe Quick Info dialog. To do that, hovyou to review and even edit the symbo

Reference Activation- A new capabilmodel. To do this you first must activatblocking any other users from modifyinexplicitly release them or exit your sesrelinquished it is not possible to undoactivation, it makes sense to hold the l

Reference Annotation Scale- In thealso may have added annotations direannotation scale, but that would havechanged. Therefore, the only way youactive model's annotation scale appliescale of the annotations in the referenscale, you must turn on this option. Inis not visible, right-click in the columncheck mark appear.

Reference View Flags A few featurthe fill display, or any other view attribdialog, then choose Settings > Presenthe option is turned on, then each attrithis switch is also available with the fol

Remove Context Menu Items To rein blank.


les you can attach one or more links to an element in the opent are linked to it. For example, you could add a link to a Microsuse a key in link to quickly navigate to the next drawing sheet., file or URL link, choose Add Link from the right-click contextstart dragging it onto the element and then press the ALT key dveral menu items for working with links are on the Reset Pop-dd Link. If you right-click an element with a link attached to it,

in a view window, you can choose Select Links > All, Valid, or I

older Use the %% key-in to open Windows Explorer to the o(_DGNFILE) which also highlights the open file.

tools vortex engine provides you with an easy-to-use, high-perfings you can do with point clouds is to display them on a 2D s

ud to a level, manipulate the point cloud with the standard Micoints via the line weight setting which is very useful when your

r dialog is docked on the left side and can easily be accessedible by default in the Primary Tools toolbox.

ment Information dialog to retrieve bits of information about ther your cursor over the element and press ALT + RESET. Thelogy values.

lity lets you edit a reference in-place. That is, you can edit a refe the reference. When you activate a reference, you must opeg that file. As you activate references, you acquire their locks asion. The reason that deactivate doesn't automatically releasehanges. So, if you are actively working on a set of 3 files jumpi

ocks until you decide you're ready to release them.

past you may have added annotations to design models that arctly on the sheet. If the annotations were too small, you wouldffected only the annotations directly on the sheet. The annotati

could change the annotations was to exchange into the referento annotations in references, too. If you change the scale of th

es changes as well. To make a reference's annotations use thhe References dialog there is a new column named Use Activeeading and turn it on. To turn on this option for a reference, cli

of MicroStation is the ability to control each references view flte, on for one reference and off for another. To do that, selectation. If Use View Flags is turned off, then the settings are conute listed can be turned on or off independent of the parent m

lowing key-in: REFERENCE SET USEVIEWFLAGS=

same name and leave the key-


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Running Coordinates To enable thfrom the available options. As you moPoint Mode. When you left-click, a melongitudes, choose ACS Position.

Saved View Boundary Elements- Tdisplay showing the extents of the savmanipulated like a standard element.

Selection Overlap mode is right to lright its the inside mode.

Snapmode as preference Theresthe default snap mode and multi-snap

Start a Windows application - To st

Start a new session of MicroStationnewsession myfile.dgn,default will ope

Terrain Element- A terrain model is amodeled. They are used to model highdigital terrain models (DTMs), triangulMicroStation element type as of Micro


display of running coordinates, right-click on the status bar ane your cursor, the coordinates of your current position displayu displays six options. When dealing with a Geocoordinate Sy

e Saved View dialog has a new column called Show. When end view. These graphics can be selected with the Element Sel

ft To select elements in overlap mode, drag the selection bo

new option in the Operation category of the workspace prefersettings from the user preferences rather than from the current

rt a Windows application without leaving MicroStation use the

To start a new session of MicroStation, use the newsessionn default model in MyFile.dgn

set of triangles mathematically computed from point data collely irregular surfaces, particularly the surface of the earth. Terraited irregular networks (TINs), or triangulated surfaces. A terraitation V8i (SELECTseries 3).

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d turn on Running Coordinatesccording to the active Tentativetem, such as latitudes and

abled, a boundary element willction tool, or by a fence, and be

right to left. If you go left to

nces that will allow you to readdesign file.

%key-in

ey-in. For example,

ted on the surface beingn models are also referred to as

model is recognized as a

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