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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
MicroStation
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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
MicroStation
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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
MicroStation
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Rotate a view based on two points
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001 Rotate a view based on two points To rotate a view based on two datapoint, use the keyin: rotate view points Note, this keyin may give you different results in a 3D file than what you would expect…
over 13 years ago
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View set
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: May 29, 2001 View Set ViewSet , for MicroStation V7, allows the user to filter any display based on the elements in the current selection set and each views can have it's own filter. A must have for power-users…
over 13 years ago
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Scroll your views by distance - sort of.
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Feb 26, 2002 Scroll your views by distance...sort of. You can pan or scroll a view by a specified factor by using the following keyins: MOVE DOWN [factor] MOVE LEFT[factor] MOVE RIGHT [factor] MOVE UP [factor…
over 13 years ago
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Modify a ciircle clip volume
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jun 14, 2002 Modify a circle clip volume Using a circle as the clip volume element in V8, and having trouble moving or re-sizing it? Grab it at it's center instead of it's edge. Problem now solved. With thanks…
over 13 years ago
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Utilize a saved view for your thumbnail
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Dec 31, 2002 Utilize a saved view for your thumbnail Did you know you can tell MicroStation V8 what image to display as the thumbnail in the MicroStation Manager? Just create a saved view called PREVIEW and MicroStation…
over 13 years ago
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Filter the display of MicroStation V7 views with Viewset
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: Feb 26, 2002 Austrailia's very own Mr. Dennis Barker has contributed this ditty on using Viewset to filter the display of your views when using MicroStation V7. It originally appeared in the Austrailian MicroStation publication…
over 13 years ago
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All about background colours
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: January 2004 Updated: November 2004, December 2009, August 2010 Note: All graphics in this article were created from MicroStation V8i SS2. V7, V8 - View Window Background: Toggling Workspace > Preferences > View Windows…
over 13 years ago
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Use saved views more efficiently with the Saved Views utility
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: Oct 4, 2005 With a great big 'thank you' to Alexander Molotov for contributing this aritcle that describes how to make saved views that much easier. Way to go for thinking out of the box and sharing your expertise with the MicroStation…
over 13 years ago
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Automate your views with Change View
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: Dec 21, 2005 With thanks to Alexander Molotov for developing Change View . He has certainly out-done himself this time with this utility that contains various tools for automating the view display. Automove, Eagle Eye, and AutoCADish…
over 13 years ago
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View Groups - Saved Views on steroids
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: Jan 23, 2003 MicroStation V8's View Groups are closely related to Saved Views but in this case you are dealing with a group of up to eight views rather than just a single view. Kind of like V7's Saved Views on steroids! …
over 13 years ago
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Clip Volume and Clip Masks
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: March 1, 2004 Shawn Foster contributes this little article that reviews the new Clip Volume and Clip Mask tools in MicroStation V8 2004 Edition. Clipping! 15-yard penalty. First down! Okay, all American football jokes aside…
over 13 years ago
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Clipped references and rotated views
Inga Morozoff
Original Article Date: Oct 3, 2003 This brief article discusses how to overcome V7 difficulties with clipped or masked references and rotating views. 2004-09-16 Updated for clarity. In MicroStation /J, the clip boundary or clip mask boundary…
over 13 years ago
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