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Original Article Date: June 2002 Updated: July 2011 MicroStaton V8: The graphics below shows a few elements in the active file and a few in the reference file - but which is which? To simplify the volume of on-screen colours, turn on Level Overrides from the View Attributes dialog. From the reference...

Original Tip Date: June 2002 Updated: July 2011 Use the configuration variable MS_DEFAULTSHEETRGB to control the background colour of sheet models. for example, MS_DEFAULTSHEETRGB =113,255,113 will set it to green. This variable is for the creation of the first sheet model only. If your file already...

Original Article Date: March 20, 2006 With thanks to Phil Chouinard for providing these files that will allow you to view simple DWG files in monochrome. Note, this workflow works fine in model space for the simple AutoCAD drawings, but doesn't have any effect on referenced elements. Download 294...

Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001 Updated: August 2010 To change the colour that an element highlights when you snap to it, use this keyin: set hilite [colour] Where the colour option is one of the following: black, blue, cyan, dgrey, green, lgrey, magenta, red, white, yellow In the V7 versions of MicroStation...

Original Article Date: May 2006 Updated: July 2011 Look what you can do if you learn a little about VBA! This little application will scan the design file and select all shapes based on a user specified fill colour. Now, how cool is that? Thanks Rudi! Download 296.zip and extract FindFill.mvba from the...