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    CAD Tips! To use A/E/C CADD Standard draft menu

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    Please see below image. It is sample for architectural. When you select wall menu, all level and attribute is changed automatically. To use this Task menu for your discipline. Please follow below guide. It will help to match with standard draft. Open this folder, select one of needed file from sub folder. K:\TSWSV8i\PW_WorkSpace\MENU Open your folder For Win 7 user: C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\Interfaces\MicroStation...
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    Key-in Scripts

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    “The simplest software applications are key-in scripts. A key-in script is a sequence of Bentley Redline key-ins that are stored in a text file.” view off all view on 5 window tile fit view extended 5 Using some examples from the article “ How to string keyins together or create keyin scripts ” I copied and pasted the exact four lines above to created a text file called “setdgn.txt” In a directory S:\CAD\Bentley...
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    New Tool Box

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    When going into v8I, tool box, opening up the Micorstation section and right click on it the new tool bar selection is graryed out as is he seperator and a few othere options. Need some light shed on what to do. Where can I find the already writtne article on make custom tool bars? sure not like the V8 2004,
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    changes Information

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    First, Thank you very much, Replied to by Jan Slegr, sorry for the post in the wrong place. Question on the I button of tool bar, in 2004 V8 the I was for information and gave you the text centering, block informaion and allow you to change things from there, I tried the I button in V8i and got very unusual results, the one item I had selected was purple, but then the whole drawing went purple, right click, left click, esc seemed to do nothing, I...
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    Darstellung über Remotedesktop MSV8i

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    Hallo Zusammen, wir haben einen neuen Server, auf dem auch sisNET läuft. Diesen wollen wir nutzen um z.B. die ALK- und ALB-Daten einzuspielen oder sonstige Änderungen, die i.d.R. sehr lange dauern. Leider bekommen wir lediglich einen weißen Bildschirm und keine Daten angezeigt, obwohl die Daten geladen wurden und vorhanden sind (siehe Anlage). Woran kann das liegen und welche Einstellung müssen wir ggf. ändern? Schöne...
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    Saved View Seeds

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    This blog pertains to MicroStation V8i SELECTSeries 1 and later. When you want to create a saved view, you typically arrange the active view window the way you want to, and then start the Create Saved View tool. But there are cases in which a saved view seed is used to pre-specify certain settings of new saved views. This blog is going to talk about it. The settings inherited from saved view seeds include, clip volume settings, view attributes and...
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    Saved View Boundary

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    As mentioned in a previous blog, Saved Views are the center of universe for sheet composition . Saved views act as cameras of your model and enable you to invoke views of interest as well as place them on sheets. Among other things, it stores information about viewing range and orientation. There’s a quick and easy way to display this information. In the Saved Views dialog, just turn on Show toggle. Saved view’s boundary is displayed as...
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    MicroStation V8i Shareware: PokeItSelector & PokeItViewer

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    PokeItSelector & PokeItViewer are MicroStation VBA applications that are used to select or display elements based on their attributes, such as level, color, line style, etc. The filter criterion is specified from a source element (or elements) rather than from a list in a dialog box: For more information on these FREE applications, including download instructions, please visit the Grimoire Tech website .
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    How to upgrade old projects to use Dynamic Views

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    MicroStation V8i offers a lot of new features to help with drawing and sheet composition. These features are grouped under the broad heading of Dynamic Views. In this blog, I am going to describe some simple ways to gradually upgrade your dataset to make use of some of these new features. Create Saved Views When possible, create saved views of your model and attach them as references on sheets. Saved views have a lot of power and flexibility to modify...
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    Overview of Detailing Symbols

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    Every construction document set uses some kind of symbolic annotation to mark drawings in order to navigate from one sheet to another. Common scenarios include cutting a building section or taking a detail of a small area or getting a full view of a building from outside. For doing all this, different types of standard annotation symbols are used. In MicroStation we have different types of symbols for different purposes and we call them Detailing...
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    Drawing Title in References

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    Drawing titles is a physical representation of drawing areas of a sheet. If you create drawings on sheets by attaching references, then drawing title is a physical representation of a reference attachment. It also helps as a navigation aid to find the sheet on which a given view is attached. A typical drawing title consists of four fields, as shown in this example. Inside the bubble, there is "Drawing Identifier" field on top and "Sheet...
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    Print Organizer does not preview the updated design file

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    For example, if a .pset file is open, and one of the design files is open in MicroStation and data is added to the open file - a preview in Print Organizer may not show the new geometry. A common practice is to perform an “Update from design file” in the Advanced tab, but the geometry will still not show in the preview. Is this a Works As Designed? Because Print Organizer uses a worker process (second instance of MicroStation in the background...
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    v8i design exported out to kmz for google earth

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    I am working on design in nys state plane cooridates can anyone provide me what coordinates i need to project to get my design to fall into google earth it seems like this should be very easy and "google" earth projects would be easy to figure out thanks for any help Karl Detrick
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    Dynamic Cells

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    A co-worker has created dynamic blocks in autocad. We share standards between autocad and microstation and I would like to know if there is anything comparable to that in microstation? Thank you. Lisa
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    bentley view

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    In bentley view i am trying to measure a distance between two points, but the measure tool will not extend in a straight line. is there a setting to correct this?
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    Paste elements to original coordinates

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    Anyone out there to please tell me how to paste dgn elements to ORIGINAL COORDINATES.
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    Renumbering Sheets

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    While working on a project, suppose you want to renumber all the sheets, what do you do? Go to each file containing sheet models -> Open Model Properties dialog for each sheet -> Change the Sheet Number field. This is the manual way of renumbering each sheet. If you have a large number of sheets, this becomes cumbersome. There is an automatic way to do this in Project Explorer, using the Sheet Renumber tool. The First step in sheet renumbering...
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