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Keyin to toggle through your open views
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Oct. 16, 2003 Keyin to toggle through your open views Thanks to Chuck Rheault for enlightening us with this: To toggle through all open views, put this keyin on a function key: window bottomtotop It will take…
over 13 years ago
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Keyin to toggle background colour on a per view basis
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: December 2003 Updated: July 2011 Phil Chouinard shared this on one of the archived Bentley discussion groups: To toggle between a black and white background on a view-by-view basis, use these V8 keyins mdl…
over 12 years ago
MicroStation
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Set your view to be B sized
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 6, 2004 Set your view to be B sized If ever you want you set your view to be a particular size, you can do so by going to Settings > Design File > Views Then adjust the Pixel Width and Pixel Height to be…
over 13 years ago
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Reduce available view controls
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 8, 2004 Reduce available view controls Don't use all of the view controls in the default installation of MicroStation V8? Just do a right-click on them and turn off the ones you don't use. …
over 13 years ago
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Keyin to maximize and fit a view
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 14, 2004 Keyin to maximize and fit a view Larry Whitt recieved a pass from the hall monitor to share this on the newsgroups: To automatically maximize a single view and fit it's contents, use this keyin…
over 13 years ago
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Using your mouse wheel to set the window center
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Mar. 22, 2004 Using your mouse wheel to set the window center So, this is cool. In MicroStation V8: If you've got your Workspace > Preferences > Mouse options set up as follows you'll be able to set your window…
over 11 years ago
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Smoother panning with your mouse
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Mar. 22, 2004 Smoother panning with your mouse To smooth out your panning, go to Workspace > Preferences > Mouse and set the Pan and Zoom Ratios down to 1.1 or 1.2 . The results will be obvious. With thanks…
over 13 years ago
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Use saved views from references for navigating - Part 2
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Sep 26, 2005 Use saved views from references for navigating - Part 2 Matthew DeBeliso from City of San Diego Water & Sewer Design Division offers this awesome tip! In Part 1 of this tip, you learned how you can…
over 13 years ago
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Use Saved Views from references for navigating - Part 1
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Sep 26, 2005 Use saved views from references for navigating - Part 1 Matthew DeBeliso from City of San Diego Water & Sewer Design Division offers this awesome tip! Did you know that a saved view created in a…
over 13 years ago
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Batch create thumbnails to use in the MicroStation Manager
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Sep 26, 2005 Batch create thumbnails to use in the MicroStation Manager Here's a cool keyin from Bentley's own Phil Chouinard that lets you create a saved view called Preview for thumbnail generation. Use it…
over 13 years ago
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Exchange into reference - keep the current view - and don't update it
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Nov. 24, 2005 Exchange into reference, keep the current view, and don't update it With many thanks to Rudi Wells for sharing this tip! Since the beginning of time you've been able to exchange the active file…
over 13 years ago
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Rotate the view to match orientation of AccuDraw compass
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Jan. 4, 2006 Rotate the view to match orientation of AccuDraw compass Just like the title says, in MicroStation V8 XM Edition you can rotate the view to match the alignement of the AccuDraw compass by issuing…
over 13 years ago
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Control how the views appear when navigating through models
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 9, 2006 Control how the views appear when opening model When using the Previous Model , Next Model , or All Models Visited buttons in MicroStation V8 XM Edition, you may find these keystrokes a cool way…
over 13 years ago
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Navigate through your models even faster
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 9, 2006 Navigate through your models even faster In MicroStation V8 XM Edition you'll find a couple of new icons in the View Groups tool box: Previous Model - Lets you access the previous model in the session…
over 13 years ago
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Open the View Attributes dialog under your cursor
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 13, 2006 Open the View Attributes dialog under your cursor In MicroStation V8 XM Edition you can get to your View Attributes dialog way fast by simply pressing F5 AskInga…
over 13 years ago
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Seamless panning with your mouse
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: January 2006 Now, here's something that you can do with nearly all versions of MicroStation. To perform dynamic seamless panning, hold down you SHIFT key and the left mouse button (data) at the same time…
over 12 years ago
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Pan with your mouse
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 13, 2006 You've waited for this for a long time, so folks here it is...In MicroStation V8 XM Edition, you can pan with your mouse by simply holding down the middle wheel/button on your mouse. Related…
over 13 years ago
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Relocate the View Navigation toolbox
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 13, 2006 Relocate view navigation toolbox Do you yearn to have the view control icons on the left side of each view? If so, then just go to Workspace > Preferences > View Options and adjust the Show View…
over 13 years ago
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Remove the view navigation tools
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Jan. 13, 2006 Remove the view navigation tools To remove the view navigation tools from the views, go to Workspace > Preferences > View Options and disable Show View Toolbox . …
over 13 years ago
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Double-click middle button to Fit View
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 13, 2006 Double-click middle button to Fit View Just as the title of this tip says, you can double click your middle mouse button/wheel to issue a Fit View . This mouse function was made available in MicroStation…
over 13 years ago
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Put the Task Navigation tool box in your view border
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 26, 2006 Put the Task Navigation tool box in your view border Stick the Task Navigation tool box in the view border by selecting Window > Task Navigation in Views. This is a nice little space saver for those…
over 13 years ago
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Define view rotation point
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 30, 2006 Define view rotation point In MicroStation V8 XM Edition, you can use ALT + XBUTTON1 to define the point to rotate a view about. By defualt that would be the middle mouse button. …
over 13 years ago
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Dynamic view rotation with the middle button
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 30, 2006 Dynamic view rotation with the middle button Rotate your view about it's center by simply pressing the middle mouse button in MicroStation V8 XM Edition. Simply beautiful in a 3D file, but also…
over 13 years ago
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Open the Saved Views dialog under your cursor
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan. 30, 2006 Open the Saved Views dialog under your cursor To open the Saved Views dialog right under your fingertips, just hit F6 . This feature has been brought to you today by MicroStation V8 XM Edition.…
over 13 years ago
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Change background of DWG files
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Sep 4, 2002 Change background of DWG files You can control the background colour MicroStation V8 uses for AutoCAD DWG files by selecting the DWG Options button prior to opening the file. This is a global setting…
over 13 years ago
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