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Inga Morozoff
Related Links: Add levels to your PDFs Assign a rendering material to a level Change how levels are displayed in the attributes dialog Compare design files graphically Compare design files without level symbology Customize the width…
over 12 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Hide level library name
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Oct. 2, 2003 Hide Level Library Name Robert McCartney posted this jem on v8.general: To get rid of the level library name, set MS_HIDE_LIBRARY_SOURCE_NAMES = 1 . Very Nice! …
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Climb up your levels
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Aug. 14, 2002 Climb up your levels To "climb" up and down the levels sequentially (ie: by level number), put the following pair of keyins on adjacent function keys: lv=+1;of=1-63;dx=,, and lv=-1;of…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Keyin to delete level contents
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Keyin to delete level contents In case you missed it, Deepak was over in v8.general the other day saying something about a keyin: There is keyin level element delete "level-name" that…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
How to filter levels when there's a dash in the name
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 How to filter levels when there's a dash in the name If you're using a dash in your level names you may find it difficult to filter them. Enclosing your filter criteria in quotes should help. Thanks…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Force new levels in references to be on
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: November 2003 Force new levels in references to be on To control if a new level in a reference is on or off, set the following configuration variable: MS_REF_NEWLEVELDISPLAY = 1 forces the initial display of a new reference level…
over 12 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Delete unused levels when remapping
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Delete unused levels when remapping Bentley's Dan Abney offered the following titbid on the v8.general newsgroup: The configuration variable MS_V7TOV8_DELETE_UNUSED_LEVELS also controls the deleting…
over 11 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Turn the CTRL+E Level Display dialog into a pop-up
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Dec. 8, 2003 Turn the CTRL+E Level Display dialog into a popup dialog MicroStation V8.5 - To turn the Level Display dialog that you get when doing a CTRL+E into a popup dialog, do the following: Edit the keyin…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Level purge keyin
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: January 2004 Updated: October 2010 Starting with MicroStation V8 2004 Edition, you'll find a level purge keyin that deletes a level containing elements. When executed - all elements, in all models , will be moved to the default…
over 12 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Keyin to save changes to reference levels or not.
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Mar. 9, 2004 Keyin to save changes to reference levels...or not. While watching his hair grow, Gino mumbled the following: The ability to save changes to V8 reference levels is controlled by the keyins: set refleveloverrides…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Move elements from one level to another
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: September 2004 Updated: October 2010 Move elements from one level to another - And retain the source level Using the Level Manager, right click the level to move and choose Remap Elements from the popup menu. Then just select…
over 12 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Add levels to your PDFs
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Mar. 31, 2004 Add levels to your PDFs told the local gezondheidsherstellingsmiddelentezamenmengingskundige that you can create levels in Acrobat 6 PDF files by doing this: MicroStation V8.5 - Open pdf.plt with…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Make CTRL+E toggle for the Level Display dialog
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Apr. 20, 2004 Make CTRL+E toggle the Level Display dialog MicroStation V8.5 - To make the keyin CTRL+E toggle the Level Display dialog rather than just turning it on, do this: Workspace > Customize > Menu Bar…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Very cool keyin to turn level filters on-off
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Jun 8, 2004 Very cool keyin to turn level filters on/off Hey, this is a cool keyin to turn the display of level filters on/off in MicroStation V8: of=all;point ab;on=[filter];point ab You could…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
DWG to DGN and the default level
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Jun. 6, 2005 DWG to DGN and the Default Level When you convert a DWG to DGN, the default level is replaced by the DWG default layer called 0 (zero). Since this is now the default level, it will behave…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Keyin to set a level filter
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Jun 8, 2004 Keyin to set a level filter The keyin to activate a particular level filter is: active level filter [filter_name] AskInga Tip #445
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Turn off levels by simply selecting an element
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Aug 19, 2004 Turn off levels by simply selecting an element To quickly turn off a level by simply selecting an element, try one of these MicroStation V8 solutions Solution #1: Level Display dialog…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Trivia about the default level
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Sep 27, 2004 Trivia about the Default Level With thanks for this bit of information from none other than Chris Marks : MicroStation V8 - The default level is the one with where the level number is…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Auto-update reference level display symbology and more
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Oct 8, 2004 Auto-Update Reference Level Display, Level Symbology etc Let's say you have a model attached as a reference and then go and change the level display or the ByLevel symbology of some levels in that…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Compare design files without level symbology
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Aug. 8, 2005 Compare design files without Level Symbology For an easy way to compare design files graphically, and without using Level Symbology, take a look at this great tip from Dick Dudley : An…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Turn off the ability to plot levels
Inga Morozoff
Original Tip Date: Jan 10, 2005 Don't plot levels, only view them With thanks to Karl Peterson for this level tip! MicroStation V8 - Rather than writing a fancy schmancy pentable to disable the plotting of specific levels, you…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Toggle the global display of level and level filters
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Jan 10, 2005 Toggle the global display of level and level filters With many thanks to Kees van Prooijen for this tip! MicroStation V8 - Use level set display on|off|toggle keyin instead of on= and…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Freeze a level by selecting an element
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Feb 7, 2005 Freeze a level by selecting an element With many thanks to Kirk Dunlap for sharing this tip, and tl Chris Marks for spotting a typo! To enable Global Freeze by selecting an element, use…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Set override defaults for new level creation
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Mar 17, 2005 Set override defaults for new level creation MicroStation V8 - Did you know that when you create a new level, MicroStation actually uses the Default level as the seed? Knowing this you can…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
Toggle the global display of levels
Jordan Stierly
Original Tip Date: Mar 22, 2005 Toggle the global display of levels With many thanks to Gerald Hernandez for pointing this out! To toggle the display of a level, use this keyin: level set display toggle [level_name…
over 13 years ago
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki
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