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Does anyone known this on-screen view popup?

Raphael :)
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Hi,
I found this picture on the internet, in a Microstation Connect documentation written by Stephen Holmes and Robert Jones. (Peoples maybe also active here?)
I find the change-view popup shown on the right very interesting, but it is not described in this documentation.
I've tried a lot and googled afterwards, but unfortunately without success.
Maybe someone knows whether this is an onboard function in Microstation or how to get this on-screen menu?
Many thanks
Regards
Raphaël

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    Hi Raphael,

    Yes this is a popup "Screen Menu" - This particular one was developed for AECOsim SS6 - Noel Page took a simple version I had started and really went to town to show off what screen menus could do. I think OpenBuildings Designer still carries a version of which is mapped to Ctrl+Shift+RightClick.

    This particular menu is somewhat superseded by the CONNECT shortcut Shift+RightClick

    However....

    While Screen Menus take a bit of time to put together, they are incredibly flexible because they are just a series of Saved views of 2D Models with special commands attached to the elements. Connect really makes adding commands very easy, and you can even use ribbon icons with their commands pre-set in the screen menus.

    Saved view allow you to have "pages" of menu, and can even animate a 3D menu.

    I have developed a screen menu to better organise, choose, & place hatching/patterning (using 3 clicks instead of 20), others have created entire custom keyboard menus.

    Would love to see your menu idea  ;-)

    Regards

    Robert

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    OK, I like that idea a lot. I'd be curious what your command strings are for that patterning. It would be awfully nice to generate a "style book" for such things, and bypass the extra dialogs if possible. Custom tool (open screen menu), pick your pattern from the book, and place it.

    I am working on a screen menu to essentially give me my "Main Classic" tool palette back. After all the years with 90% of my tools at my fingertips, I am already "done" trying to figure out where everything I want is in what tab in which workflow.

    MaryB

    Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918
    Power InRoads 08.11.09.918
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2

       

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  • 0 Offline in reply to Robert Jones

    OK, I like that idea a lot. I'd be curious what your command strings are for that patterning. It would be awfully nice to generate a "style book" for such things, and bypass the extra dialogs if possible. Custom tool (open screen menu), pick your pattern from the book, and place it.

    I am working on a screen menu to essentially give me my "Main Classic" tool palette back. After all the years with 90% of my tools at my fingertips, I am already "done" trying to figure out where everything I want is in what tab in which workflow.

    MaryB

    Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918
    Power InRoads 08.11.09.918
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2

       

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