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Learn how to run set of commands when you fire up MicroStation.
To run a macro or set of keyins when starting MicroStation, you can use the -s command line switch which dumps the contents of a "startup file" into the MicroStation key-in window for immediate execution. For this to work, you'll need to append the MicroStation icon command line to read: ustation.exe -sdrive\folder\file.txt For example: -sd:\temp\RunNow.txt
"d:\temp\RunNow.txt" would then contain any set of key-ins to be run immediatly when MicroStation is started: lv=1;co=0;wt=0;lc=0;on-1-63;selv 1;fit;selv 1;macro scaletext If you want to run the contents of the startup file during the design session, just keyin a @ followed by the name of your startup file. ie: @d:\temp\RunNow.txt. (By the way, a startup file is more commonly referred to as a script file.) For more information about script and startup files, please refer to: The Power of Keyins - Part 2 More information about command line switches can be found in: Technote 7102 - MicroStation Command Line Options/Switches