Questions from first MicroStation SIG

Here are Qs after viewing the videos: (AECOsim SS4 593, opened from the Microstation icon)

Day 1 - Welcome to MicroStation - Part 1

1) In File Open, what are the Tools/File History and the Directory History buttons for, how used?

2) I understand how ‘User’ has come to mean ‘User of … whatever (e.g. ‘User of examples’), so am surprised to hear that in “many philosophies” ‘User’ can still be a person e.g. Tom (me). What kind of things would be configured in User>New>Tom, and how?

3) Although opening from the Microstation icon, User>BuildingDesigner dominates. Is it correct that, if wishing to use Building Designer, the only option is User>BuildingDesigner then e.g. Project>BuildingTemplate_NM_Full, unless I create e.g. Project>New>Tom_NM_Full? (this seems a distortion of the concept of ‘Project’). Is there any step by step guidance on creating e.g. Project>New>Tom_NM_Full, complete with necessary configuration changes?

4) If, downstream of Project>BuildingTemplate_NM_Full or Project>Tom_NM_Full, I wanted to create genuine Projects variants e.g. Project>Client A, Project>Client B, Project>Scheme 1, Project>Scheme 2, how to do that?

5) In Tasks dialog, can the topmost items 1-9 (ElemSelect, Fence … Measure) be presented not in Icon Layout Mode but in e.g. Panel Layout Mode?