Loading custom tool boxes

Thanks. I can create the tool boxes, that's not the issue. I want to open a tool box from a key-in without going through Tools > Tool Boxs. That is, I want to open them from a pull-down menu. Thanks!

Hi,

key-in to open a toolbox (both MicroStation standard ones and own toolbox) is dialog toolbox <toolbox name>, so the key-in defined for your menu item should be something like dialog toolbox "my own toolbox".

BTW It seems both options, dialog toolbox "my own toolbox" and dialog toolbox my own toolbox, work fine and quotation marks are not required if the toolbox name contains spaces, but in my opionion it's a good practice to encapsulate the name with spaces into quotation marks.

With regards,

  Jan

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I have created custom tool boxes in a .dgnlib file. Now, I want to be able to open then from, say a pull-down menu. Is there a key-in that I can use to accomplish this? Thanks!

This is a little confusing, if you have  custom tool boxes and you want them in a  pull down menu, then what did you do in the drgnlib you created.

didnt  you just add a new menu bar item and then list each new tool in there  or is that what your asking  how to do? 

in the customise in your dgnlib take a look how other menus are  made then you'll get the idea.. its not to different  from previous versions except now we use the dgnlib and  you need to open and customise the dgn lib itself, then make sure its being  pointed to in the workspace config so it gets loaded..

Jan

I am running V8i-10

I have tried all of these ways to open this Tool box listed in the picture

the one out of sight is dialog toolbox "QseHilite" I tried the other names since it was listed as - Custom ?

Do you have any other tips or tricks ??