I have been drafting for over 15 years in AutoCAD, but I am new to MicroStation. Love the program and doing well. I am trying to figure out how I can set my perpendicular snap to come on while in the middle of drafting instad of having to go check the perpendicular snap icon everytime, since I have my MultiSnaps on, but perpendicular is not an option in the list. Someone had a good resolution I will paste below from exactly what he said how to assign my p on my keyboard to snap to perpendicular.
How do I do this below?
if your using accudraw then you could create a custom key that alias's they perp snap or edit the P to perp snap (instead of point keyin)... not what you wanted as you like the multisnap...
I use default key point and keyin with accudraw
I or C for Intersect or C for centre. and if I edited the P to perpendicular snap it would work too...
Thanks in Advance!
Chris
Another option is to access it thru shift+snap. To set up a key in Accudraw, focus Accudraw, type GS to bring up settings, in display tab hit Shortcut Keyins. Click add, find a character that's not used (p is unfortunately) and enter keyin "snap perpendicular" for one shot or "lock snap perpendicular" to change default snap. Can also be done with a function key or even a bit of custom ribbon.
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Answer Verified By: Chris LeMay
Thank you so much Bob! You are amazing!!!!Worked like a charm. Another thing I noticed is that if you draw a centerline and the end of your CL happens to fall in the gap of the line the end of the CL is not exactly the actual endpoint you would snap to. As opposed to AutoCAD where beginning or end the end of the line would never display as a gap as shown below in MicroStation where the gap is there. I wasn't sure if there was a display setting where it would not have that gap displayed at either end of the line like in AutoCAD.
See how the gap is there, but the actual endpoint is the handle. Didn't know if the was a display setting or variable that would resolve this from displaying the gaps on linestyles that aren't continuous?
Thanks,
C. LeMay
MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 4) version 08.11.09.829
The linestyle question is something else, so I think you should start a new thread for that one.
Keypoint snap takes the place of most of my running osnaps (as endpoint, midpoint, and center by default), then I can use the "I" and "N" shortcuts for my Intersect and Nearest. That covers 90% of what I need with no additional work, although I do use an edited Accudraw shortcut for my perpendicular snap (I will never use the "P" shortcut for it's original purpose).
MaryB
Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918Power InRoads 08.11.09.918OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2
That's the linestyle definition for your CL. (use lc=4 whenever you can). You can fix the linestyle definition, but that would be off topic as well as potentially dangerous for the uninitiated. First you want to find and backup the files involved, then have at it
Thanks for the reply. I should know better than to ask a different topic question. I will ask in a new forum question. Thanks so much for the input!