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Original Tip Date: Feb 23, 2005 Preset all reference attachment settings Predefine all of your reference attachment settings with this V8.5 variable: MS_REF_DEFAULTSETTINGS Some of the available settings are: Locate, Snap, True…

Original Tip Date: Mar 16, 2005 Move clipped reference, not clipping element - Method #3 Steve Young offers this solution for clipping a V8 reference while leaving the clipping element stationary: Place your clipping element in…

Original Tip Date: Apr 16, 2005 Move clipped reference, not clipping element - Method #2 Michael Hall shares this great reference trick. Clip your V8 reference to a shape that's located in a cell. Now when you move the reference…

Original Tip Date: April 2005 Updated: November 2014 Determine attached references without starting MicroStation You'll love this tip contributed by Rudi Wells ! To display attached references of a design file without having to open…

Original Tip Date: January 2006 Updated: November 2011 The setting called called Treat Attachment as Element for Manipulation allows you to use the normal element manipulation tools on your references. You can toggle this…

Original Tip Date: Jan 10, 2006 Right click on element to open another instance of MicroStation MicroStation V8 XM Users will love this! Right click on an element that's in a reference and select Edit Refernce . …

Original Tip Date: Jan. 10, 2006 Right click on element to exchange into that file This is something that MicroStation V8 XM Edition users just have to know. If you do a right click on an element that's in a reference, you…

Original Tip Date: May 18, 2005 Keyins to change reference highlight mode Rudi Wells came up with these keyins to change the reference highlight mode in V8: Boundaries: mdl load calculat; calculator userPrefsP->refFilePrefs.hiliteMode…

Original Tip Date: Jul 4, 2006 Quickly toggle the display of references With thanks to Greg Atkins for suggesting this tip! In MicroStation V8, you can quickly and easily toggle the display of references with these keyins: When…

Original Tip Date: Sep 12, 2006 Exchange into reference based on logical name With thanks to Ricky Williams for sharing this on the discussion groups. To exchange into a reference by using it's logical name, use this keyin: reference…

Original Tip Date: Dec 4, 2006 Clip and mask a reference with a group hole To clip and mask a reference at the same time, use a group hole. The outside element will be the clipping element while the inside element(s) will be the…

Original Tip Date: Feb 9, 2007 MS_RFDIR limitations In MicroStation V8 2004 Edition and earlier, MS_RFDIR had a limit of about 30,000 characters it could "store" and about 255 characters for the paths. Although this was adequate…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 28, 2006 Associate a reference to a sheet for auto-scaling In MicroStation V8 XM Edition you can associate a reference to a sheet model so that when you change your annotation scale, so does the scale of…

Original Tip Date: Jun 27, 2007 Reference Scale (Master:Ref) for details When attaching a detail, there's no need to use a calculator to figure out the scale you should use. For example: If the plot scale of your drawing is 1:150…

Original Tip Date: Sep 20, 2007 Removing Save Full Path from references Barry Bentley shared this tip on the discussion groups: After upgrading files to V8, make sure the configuration variable MS_DISALLOWFULLREFPATH is set to…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 31, 2002 Highlight References This is simple but way too valuable to pass up! In V7, we often relied on toggling the display of a reference file to clearly identify it. Well, now you can easily see the reference…

Original Tip Date: Nov 19, 2007 Modify reference clip boundary If you've used a fence to clip a reference, you can quickly modify the clipping boundary as follows: Enable Treat Attachment as Element for Manipulation in the References…

Original Tip Date: Feb. 18, 2003 Search for text in a reference file! If you need to look for text in a reference file, use LOCANY authored by Systems hk . Note: The only way to get this awesome V7 MDL application is to Google…

Original Tip Date: July 2001 Updated: October 2010 Attach the saved view of a Reference File. MicroStation /J - To attach the saved view of a reference file coincidently, use the following keyin: RF=filename,logical,description;view name;X:1;reset…

Original Tip Date: Apr 2, 2003 Keyin to toggle the display of references If you use standard logical names for your reference attachments, use this handy keyin to quickly toggle the display of your references. And, as a bonus,…

Original Tip Date: Apr 3, 2003 Batch merge references To merge references in batch mode do this: Utilities > Batch Converter Add the files you wish to process and set the Default Output Format to V8 The go to Edit > V8 Save Options…

Original Tip Date: Apr 4, 2003 Keyin to change Use References Dialog List Barry Bentley posted the following tip to V8.General: To see what the current setting of the Use Reference Dialog List option, use this somewhat cryptic…

Original Tip Date: May 15, 2003 Force references to be attached Coincident - World or Coincident To force references to be attached Coincident - World , set either of these configuration variables: MS_REF_COINCIDENTWORLD=1 or MS_REF_DEFAULTSETTINGS…

Original Tip Date: April 2002 Updated: October 2010 Attach a file to itself faster! To self-reference a file a bit faster try this. If you're using the old MicroStation dialogs, such as those found in MicroStation 2004 Edition, select File from…

Original Tip Date: Apr 19, 2002 Attaching a reference file with a config variable Hey, this is cool! Did you know that you can attach a reference file with a configuration variable right in the keyin? RF=variable:FILE.DGN With…