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    BE 2005 - Tips and Tricks

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     Original Article Date: Oct 6, 2005

    Miss the big conference? Well, not to worry....this is what I chatted about during my Tips and Tricks session. Learn and enjoy! Oh Yeah, this is the session I did at the IDDEA Fall Conference as well.
    2004-05-04 Original post date
    2005-10-06 Changed date to bring back to home page

    Faster Way To Select All Elements
    Restore Menu Bar Customizations

    Select All Elements On The Active Level
    Using A Fence To Create A Selection Set
    Create A Selection Set From Your Graphic Group
    PowerSelector Nifty CTRL+Click Trick
    Zoom In On Selected Elements
    Fit The View To The Fence
    Toggle Fill Display With One Button
    Improve The Update View Command On The View Pop-Up
    To Show The Display Depth And Active Depth
    Keyin To Toggle Through Your Open Views
    Rotate Isometric View In 90 Degree Increments
    Paste Elements At Same Graphical Location
    Modifying Some But Not All Element Handles
    New Dimension Style Dialog
    Quickly Turn On-Off Extension Lines
    Modify A Dimension Without Extension Lines
    Change Dimension Text Justification
    How To Align Dimensions That Are Not Aligned
    Label Coordinates And Auxiliary Coordinate Systems
    Set Override Defaults For New Level Creation
    Move elements from one level to another - quickly!
    Toggle The Global Display Of Levels
    Freeze Levels With A Keyin
    Fit Reference By Selecting An Element
    Fit Reference By Using Logicals
    Attach References From Current Working Directory Faster
    Move clipped reference, not clipping element - Method #2
    Move clipped reference, not clipping element - Method #3
    Determine Attached References Without Starting MicroStation
    Attach Multiple Models Fast And Easy
    Improving Raster Image Quality In Cells And Dgns
    Locked Models
    A neat trick to "delete" the default model
    Sort Fonts By Font Number Instead Of By Font Name
    Place Text On Line Without Breaking The Line
    How To Re-Order Your Data Fields
    Hate keyin in angle quadrants? Well good riddance with this tip!
    Drawing Scale Window
    Creating Zoom Independent Cells
    Move A Dialog Off Your Screen Without Docking
    Keyin To Toggle Dialogs On And Off
    Report expand your variables with expand echo keyin
    Set Temporary Variables With The Expand Set Keyin
    Start MicroStation Without The Splash Screen

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