Selection area color in Microstation CONNECT

I'm not sure if you can change/add color to the selection window. In Microstation when using the selection tool data point + drag left you will see a dashed window. Data point + drag right will show a solid window.

if you just want to make a specific colour for any selection ie crossing  or  inside you can go to

preferences (personal) > view options  now by default  selection set is set to magenta and so is element  hilite.

if you double click on the selection set colour an override box pops and you can change the colour  via the rgb so green would be 0,255,0 (R,G,B)

Then ok and your selection sets will always be green from now on.. to change hilite on the fly ( note hilite function is not the same as selection function)  you can us a  keyin   to set almost any colour you want, see below

set hilite colourname

where colourname is say red, or blue etc  you can even pull down in keyin dialog to see more colours  just like we always have in previous versions

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and the result now when doing any selection my case is green

and if I was to use the power selector to select  by a level , or element type or other options  then that selection would be green..

This is handy when you have a lot of magenta objects and don't want to use the same colour ie  magenta as your selection colour.

Hi,

Arm an said:

do you know how can we change the selection area color?

as mwlong wrote, it's not possible.

What is in AutoCAD displayed using colors (green / blue for everything inside / crossing elements), in MicroStation is displayed by the selection window border: Continuous line represents select everything inside" mode, whereas "select crossed elements" is represented by dashed line.

A few more details, not commonly known:

• In "individual" selection mode, when Shift is pressed (not hold) during the dragging, the modes are switched. It's a solution for "oops, I should start from an opposite side" situation ;-)
• In "individual" selection mode, when Alt is pressed, the windows selection mode is switched to "select by crossing line" mode and back.
• In addition to continuous and dashed borders, also dash-dot line is used to represent "cut at border" fence mode.
• Selection window color is used for fence, where green means "inside" and purple "outside" modes.

With regards,

  Jan

Jan Šlegr said:

in MicroStation is displayed by the selection window border: Continuous line represents select everything inside" mode, whereas "select crossed elements" is represented by dashed line.

Hi Jan,

In Autocad works the same and at the same time with colour display. I believe this was what the user was after.

Regards