Original Article Date: Oct 6, 2005
Miss the big conference? Well, not to worry....this is what I chatted about during my Tips and Tricks session. Learn and enjoy! Oh Yeah, this is the session I did at the IDDEA Fall Conference as well. 2004-05-04 Original post date 2005-10-06 Changed date to bring back to home page
Faster Way To Select All Elements Restore Menu Bar Customizations
Select All Elements On The Active Level Using A Fence To Create A Selection Set Create A Selection Set From Your Graphic Group PowerSelector Nifty CTRL+Click Trick Zoom In On Selected Elements Fit The View To The Fence Toggle Fill Display With One Button Improve The Update View Command On The View Pop-Up To Show The Display Depth And Active Depth Keyin To Toggle Through Your Open Views Rotate Isometric View In 90 Degree Increments Paste Elements At Same Graphical Location Modifying Some But Not All Element Handles New Dimension Style Dialog Quickly Turn On-Off Extension Lines Modify A Dimension Without Extension Lines Change Dimension Text Justification How To Align Dimensions That Are Not Aligned Label Coordinates And Auxiliary Coordinate Systems Set Override Defaults For New Level Creation Move elements from one level to another - quickly! Toggle The Global Display Of Levels Freeze Levels With A Keyin Fit Reference By Selecting An Element Fit Reference By Using Logicals Attach References From Current Working Directory Faster Move clipped reference, not clipping element - Method #2 Move clipped reference, not clipping element - Method #3 Determine Attached References Without Starting MicroStation Attach Multiple Models Fast And Easy Improving Raster Image Quality In Cells And Dgns Locked Models A neat trick to "delete" the default model Sort Fonts By Font Number Instead Of By Font Name Place Text On Line Without Breaking The Line How To Re-Order Your Data Fields Hate keyin in angle quadrants? Well good riddance with this tip! Drawing Scale Window Creating Zoom Independent Cells Move A Dialog Off Your Screen Without Docking Keyin To Toggle Dialogs On And Off Report expand your variables with expand echo keyin Set Temporary Variables With The Expand Set Keyin Start MicroStation Without The Splash Screen
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