• Create a custom line style - A tutorial

    Original Post Date: February 2001 Updated: July 2011 This tutorial will walk you through the steps to create a simple custom line style of a geological fault line. If you've dabbled with creating your own custom line styles and found it to be a…
  • Creating a 'halo' on map text in V8i?

    So, I've been reading through an article on 41Latitude about how Google improves legibility in Google Maps, and I came to a section about white outlines applied to labels: http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-readability Is…
  • Default font symbol mapping problem new to V8i

    Hi folks, Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I couldn't find mention of it if it has. Anyway, I have a problem with thousands of DGNs drawn in previous MicroStation versions looking wrong in MicroStation V8i. Basically the +- symbol…
  • Document your custom line styles

    Original Article Date: Aug 18, 2005 Miro Mates shares this V8 MDL that generates an index of your custom line styles. What a time saver!!! As always, thanks Miro!!! Download 262.zip and extract docls_v8.ma from the zip file. Place…
  • environment variables set from hta and starting MicroStation

    I've got a curly one. I have a hta, attached, that lets the user set variables and then start MicroStation. The problem I have is, even though the variables are being set without a problem, several versions of MicroStation (V8 and V8i) will not pick it…
  • Force textstyles

    Is it possible to allow use only text with textstyles in DGN file? Maybe some capability which locks the texstyle usage as in DWG workmode. We need this for converting old DGNs which doesn't use textstyles to new DGNs so text elements use textstyles.
  • How to extract keyins for the tool settings in MicroStation V8i

    Thanks, Gino , for providing this information! To do this: Start any tool Open Utilities > Key-in and expand that vertically Type "set item toolsettings" but do not press "Enter" You should see a set of named variables for the active…
  • How to Imprint In Microstation v8i

    How can i "IMPRINT" a solid in microstation same like in autocad? picture attached! My Bentley MicroStation Version is 08.11.05.17 Please advice me.. Thanks
  • How to make title block tag-cells

    Original Article Date: June 18, 2002 This article was inspired by and based upon a posting to Bentley's V8 newsgroup by Paul Mullis of Culpepper, McAuliffe and Meaders, Inc. In the posting Paul addressed how to create "tag cells" for title blocks and…
  • Mathematical expressions in Data Fields?

    Hello. I'm using Microstation V8i SELECTSeries 1. I've got a question if there is a possibility to use mathematical expression and formulas within Data Fields. For example, i've got data field which displays properiets of an element: area in fq…
  • MicroStation Tool Icons

    I posted this in the general V8i forum and did not received a reply. I'm posting this here in hopes someone might have the answer. I would like to import some of the basic MicroStation icons and modify them for my own custom tools. What file does MicroStation…
  • MicroStation V8i SS3 rsc fonts

    I'd like to look at .rcs files individually to see what fonts are included in each file, but I do not see the utility that was in the older versions of MicroStation to see/build these files. I've looked in the MS Help, and nothing comes up. Is there a…
  • MS_ANNOTATIONSCALEPROPAGATION

    Yes, I did a search and read thread after thread but never got a direct answer from Bentley. V8i - Is this still as before with three options Have MicroStation Prompt before propagating the annotation scale to all elements. Have MicroStation…
  • Print Organizer - add drawings from text file or other method

    I'm trying to figure out if there is another way of adding files to the print organizer for large sets of drawings. Picking each drawing individually or even in groups from the file explorer dialog can be quite a task. It would be nice if there was also…
  • Print Organizer vs. Batch Print

    What is Print Organizer? Print Organizer is the new print set utility delivered with MicroStation V8i. It is intended to improve upon and replace the previous MicroStation print set utility, Batch Print. The best source of information about…
  • Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

    I am sure there are many others out there who are hardly new to MicroStation. Personally, I learned IGDS before MicroStation, and my first versions of MicroStation were probably 2.X on both DOS and CLIX. As new features and capabilities have come along…
  • Update data fields

    On my drawings I have three data fields with file properties containing the file location, last saved date and author. Is it possible to get all this filelds to update automaticly or by using a key-in? In order to update them i need to run the key-in…