Lets all post our favourite F key scripts or ones that we developed and use alot here are some of my favourite combos
If you use dimension element then run and your text and arrows fall out side the leaders then I run F6 before placement or if I want the arrows reversed on the fly
I then use the shft F6 and can toggle between them... note the only difference is a , 2 and ,1
This combo saves a lot of time and lets me dimension on the fly....
F6 - mdl load calculat;calculator mdlDimStyle_setIntegerProp(dgnDimStyle_getActiveFromModelRef(0),2,716)
Sht F 6- mdl load calculat;calculator mdlDimStyle_setIntegerProp(dgnDimStyle_getActiveFromModelRef(0),1,716)
Fix display depth , this is a great fixer for 3d when you sometimes cant figure out why zooming in causes objects to disappear and reappear its often the active depth is outside the display depth range
dd=-10000,10000;dx=,,;reset
This is both a favourite F key and a tip
you just got told you have to add a Raster or and extra reference attachment to a competed set of plans..
Go to the ref file on the network and use explorer to create shortcut, then edit the shortcut to get the full file path which will include the quotation marks, copy to clipboard and delete the short cut,
Go to a vacant F key and put RF= then paste the full path from the clipboard eg RF="X:\xrefs\survey.dgn"
if you add ,,, at the end it does world coincident , unnested ( look up references and keyins for more options in the help file
you now can open each drawing and press the F key and it will attach the ref file you still need to tell it interactive mode ( you could even set that but I like the flexibility) and you are then able to clip boundary .. if we put this into the batch processor I cant figure the clipping automation so its not really worth the batch mode)
Deselect the power selection set very handy as mine gets stuck and escape doesnt do it... so this is another Favorite F key..
powerselector deselect
Paste from the clip board with an F key is quicker and less mouse movement and even works with the Ninja point (see askinga how to do this) very nicely almost as good as our acad friends use the copy paste by insertion point...sets the active scale to 1, the active angle to 0 and pastes the content of the clipboard hanging off the end of the cursor or relative to the ninja point object...
as=1;aa=0;clipboard paste
Last but not least one of my most used
Place my North point cell at true north no matter what the view rotation happens to be with out unrotating the view... the following is all on one line when you copy paste it into your F key of choice.
MDL silent LOAD DGNSET;as=1;ac=mynorthpoint;aa=0;accudraw dialog;accudraw setorigin;accudraw rotate top;%d;accudraw rotate view;accudraw quit;reset
Where I have ac=mynorthpoint; you need to replace this with your own northpoint cell and if your cell lib is not pathed by your config file you'll need to path it
like AC="X:\ourcells\map.cel\mynorthpoint" I like the quote marks just incase of spaces etc in the paths...
ok now your turn guys...
regards / Thomas Voghera
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