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Question

how to ad a setting to use a fence in the key in "stretch icon" (to define a Function key) - if a fence is set 
 
 Rik

Jan Šlegr · Accepted Answer

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...

Lorys · Answer

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...

Lorys · Answer

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 I seem to recall a better blog a long time ago but it appears it must have been archived away...

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