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  • How to turn on/off View Display of Levels with a Key-in

    Product: MicroStation Version: V8, XM, V8i, CONNECT, 2023 Environment: N\A Area: Levels Subarea: General Problem How to turn on or off the View Display of levels with a key-in? Solution …
  • How to copy elements from one DGN file to another

    Product: MicroStation Version: V8i, CONNECT Edition Environment: N\A Area: Base Geometry Subarea: N\A Problem When copying information from a file into a current DGN file. Information gets…
  • How To Retain Level Names While Exporting The OpenPlant Model From v8i Version to v7 Version

    Applies To Product(s): OpenPlant Modeler Version(s): 08.11.09.XXX & Higher Environment: Windows 7/8/10 (64 bit) Area: Import/Export-OpenPlant Modeler Subarea: Original Author: Swapnil Joshi, Bentley Product…
  • Macro for Selecting Elements by Level and applying Part & Family and DataGroup data

    Product(s): AECOsim Building Designer Version(s): V8i Environment: N/A Area: Utilities Subarea: Macro Problem I want to select all the elements on a particular level and assign both DataGroup…
  • Display or Change the Active Level

    Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): V8i, CONNECT Environment: N\A Area: Levels Subarea: Level Display How to locate which is the current Active Level and how this can be changed Background…
  • CONNECT Edition - Levels in PDF printing

    Product(s): AECOsim Building Designer Version(s): 10.00.00.154, 08.11.09.866 Environment: N\A Area: Print/ Plot Subarea: PDF Printing Problem How to bring levels in PDF printing? Solution…
  • Descartes in the way

    The biggest complaint I have about Descartes as compared to IRAS-B, is that the rasters now get in the way. It was nice when the rasters used to be on their own layer and any work I did with the vector drawing did not interfere with the rasters and vice…
  • Auto Generated Numbers

    Hello all, I have tried all the suggestions here and just about everything under the sun and I still can't get the Auto Generated Numbers to work on V8i SS2 Can anyone offer a solution to this? I use the Numbers as a grouping for different disciplines…
  • Re: How to add a new level?

    Spike, it is possible to use keyIns in VBA, so that should get you started most of the times. CadInputQueue.SendKeyin "LEVEL CREATE ""My-Stuff""" CadInputQueue.SendKeyin "LEVEL SET DESCRIPTION ""My-Stuff"" Mine" CadInputQueue.SendKeyin…
  • Re: How to add a new level?

    spike: The level named My-Stuff was successfully created but the color of level still didn't change. What do you mean by 'the color of level'? Do you mean the ByLevel colour, the Override colour or the active colour (which is not really level related…
  • [V8i] Reference levels batch processing

    We recently moved from MicroStation J to V8i SELECTseries 3 and we are finding out that after we convert the files to V8 format that the levels for our reference files are all turning off. I'm trying to create a batch process to allow me to set the "standard…
  • V8i - Using key-in to turn off level in a nested reference

    I support a group of designers using Microstation and Powerdraft on computers with windows 7 or XP. There was recently a post about using a key-in to turn off levels in a reference file using the key-in "reference level off". I was wondering if there…
  • [v8i] - Level remapping - V8 DGNLIB levels to V7

    I am trying to remap the v8 levels during an export to v7. I've created a new CSV remapping file from all the levels in file "CSV test file V8.dgn" including the levels from "NE_Levels.dgnlib" and I've set the v7 level numbers they should remap to. When…
  • Microstation crashes when I select a specific attachment to adjust level display

    I have a specific file that is commonly attached--my topo--whose levels are frequently turned off and on, based on what I need at the time. Well, that worked for a while, but now, strangely, the file appears to be corrupted perhaps. When I have the level…