Background

The Bentley Facilities Planner dialog box has a context sensitive pop-up menu which opens when you click the right button of the mouse. Pop-up menus are also available by right-clicking in a MicroStation view window.

Solution

Pop-up menus are context sensitive. They display certain options which depend on what element or object lies under the cursor when the button is clicked. These options are described in the relevant sections of the manual, but it is important that this behavior in the graphics environment be understood.

If you right click in an open area of graphics which contain no Bentley Facilities Planner objects, a limited number of options are available. The generic options that appear on all pop-up menus are defined when the model dataset is configured. In the demonstration model they consist of: Search, Create Asset, Create Area, Class Filter, Asset Display, Label Display, Facility Maps

If however a Bentley Facilities Planner object lies under the cursor, additional options appear as displayed here.

There are many occasions when it is useful to be able to exclude the selection of classes. For instance, you may wish to modify the attributes of a PC that is located on a desk in the corner of a room located in the corner of a floor in a building. When you try to select the PC, it is possible for the selection to pick up the building, floor, room, desk or PC. The Class Filter dialog box allows you to disable selection of the classes you do not require, in this case the furniture, room, floor and building classes

You exclude selection of a class by setting its check box, or include it by clearing its check box. You can exclude all classes by clicking Select All or include all classes by clicking Deselect All. Those classes that are excluded from selection display with their check box's turned on