How to show Contour Elevation when hovering your mouse over it

Hi Charley

There is currently (as far as I know) no way to customize the information in the AccuSnap, Pop-up Info.

Rt. Click on the AccuSnap button, and go to Settings (for AccuSnap). Turn "ON" the Update Status Bar Coordinates. The X,Y,Z (Elevation) values will then display in the Message Center. for any location AccuSnap locks onto. There is also a Running Coordinates tool in the MicroStation Statusbar, if you turn it on. You do that by Rt. Clicking on the Right side of the Status Bar and turning the Running Coordinates "On" Either should give the Z (Elevation value).

Thank you George, both work in 3D model.

There is a way to show the elevation in the pop-up. 

It involves the use of InfoSnap, a utility that can show a large variety of information on any element you snap to.  Unfortunately, it isn't being supported anymore and I doubt it will work with the Connect Edition.  What it does is produce it's own pop-up when you select an element that can display various properties depending on the element type.  You can configure it to show some of the properties in the accusnap pop-up - I just use it to show the elevation (z-value).

It can be downloaded here:   ustation.se   The latest version is 2.2.17.  There is a nice help file that comes with it.

thats right  it cannot be done on the pop ups on the fly, but you still can use the tentative  mouse button  and the Z value will be in the message center at the bottom of screen or the longer way is the  information or properties button  from the RMB context menus

The only other way I know of is to arrange your major contour  levels names to match the actual Z values then the level name is shown as the z value.. this works very well even if exported to 2d you can stiil work out the contours... and you can determine the interval by counting the minor contours between two majors also colour for majors are different to minors....I used to work for a group who did this with their contours... not real sure how thy  did it never saw it done but I think  they used to view them side on turn,  off the  minors all on level name MINOR CONTOURS , then rename all the contours in bands  that  fit the majors intervals whole numbers only..... 

If you are using an ACS with Z different from zero - be careful of what value you actually get in the running coordinates.