key-in

ok better than just give you this single keyin your better off learning how to get / find  the keyin...

Go to ask inga and read article on Set Item tool settings and you can learn how to find  keyin extended settings for almost anything...This article is worth printing to pdf for constant reference material.. I use it alot!

Teach a man to fish and  he will never go hungry...

Hi Rik,

as Lorys wrote, to use "set item toolsettings" is the right way, but unfortunately he did not bother to provide any further detail or link, so it's probably not very useful information.

The most of MicroStation tools (unfortunately not all) allow to define their parameters, displayed in Tool settings dialog, using "set item toolsettings" key-in. This concept is described both in MicroStation documentation and MicroStation wiki.

In the discussed case, to set Use Fence switch, the-key is

set item toolsettings usefencetoggle=1

When following a good practice to define all settings to ensure tool (or F key) works always the same way, the complete key-in would be something like

stretch icon;set item toolsettings usefencetoggle=1;set item toolsettings cellstretchtoggle=1

With regards,

  Jan

P.S. In future, please follow the best practices and to specify used product and its exact version, because maybe you use some from old versions that did not support this feature...

may thanks

Rik
OBD u8

Sorry but I did say search askinga and the article on set item tool setting .. do we also now have to do the google search for posters.. I thought you disliked doing that...LMGTFY

Ok them try this

google found these these and the second one explains it better.
communities.bentley.com/.../how-to-extract-keyins-for-the-tool-settings-in-microstation-v8i

https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/104570/where-do-we-set-the-default-settings-for-tools

and in the above post I once  even put in some pictures and working examples of how to do what was in the ask inga article .. I seem to recall a better  blog a long time ago but it appears it must have been archived away...