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...
window bottom(Cycle thru overlapping view windows with each press of the function key)
zoom in 1;m,prEnter data points to pan /Reset to exit(Single data point Window Center, enter data point repeatedly to pan view)
null(Deactivate current tool without activating another)
choose none;choose element(Clear current selection and enable power selector)
This is my ultimate favourite printing F key Add the following to an F key and have 1 stop 1 shot printing
print; print driver pdf.pltcfg;print PENTABLE ATTACH mypentable.tbl; print papername ISO A3; print maximize;print EXECUTE
( if you work from model space and not from sheet models edit your workspace config to include MS_PLT_AUTO_FIT_VIEW to value 1, this auto fences to the fit view and doesnt interfere with manually placed fences just removes need to do manual fence..)
Lorys
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dialog pallet 50circles
and try just dialog pallet then in the expanded keyin browser look at all the others we have...
here some great oldies from the digitiser pallet days, these can be done with standard tools and snaps but f you do any alot stick it in and F key favorite... or at least in your note book of tricks for ustn,,,,
Place Circle tangent to element really cool when both are circles ( but doesnt have to be)
P,CTN1EL
Place Line tangent to 2 Circles
P,LTN2EL
Create a Circle Diameter tangent to 3 lines or 3 Elements
P,CTN3EL
these may not work with ss3 and above
but the equivalents are found under the key in browser under
Construct Tangent (then you can use) between (for the line tangent to 2 circles)
Construct Tangent Circle 3 ( for the between 3 elements )
ROTATE VIEW ELEMENT to rotate a view by selecting an element. I do mostly Civil work and use Station labels as my go to element. While you can use other elements, text is the easiest to know its "up" direction. This can be tricky in a 3D file with non text elements. You can end up with a view that looks correct, but the Z axis is not normal to the screen.
Also, some of these I've added to my right click menu, so I don't have to take my eyes of the screen.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration