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Original Tip Date: Jul. 3, 2003 Remove Open URL... from File menu To remove Open URL... from the File menu, locate and rename or move weblib.* With thanks to Phil for sharing this on one of Bentley's newsgroups. …

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Return to the MicroStation Manager Don't care for the new WinOpen dialog that's replaced the MicroStation Manager in MicroStation V8.5? Turn this off: Workspace > Preferences > Look and Feel > Use…

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…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Match stuff under your cursor in V8.5 Gino Cortesi was overheard saying: "A new set of keyins allow you to match information from the cursor in dynamics: match element fromcursor…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Improved dynamics in MicroStation v8.5 will rock you! Hey, Hey, Hey,....did ya hear what Ray had to say? "Drag a slab in an orthographic view. Rather than the overlapping lines disappearing…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Set temporary variables with the expand set keyin Gino Cortesi told my dog that expand set sets a temporary configuration variable for your current design session. For example, expand set myfile…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Report (expand) your variables with expand echo keyin Gino Cortesi shared the following on the v8.general newsgroup. Note, that these keyins are available in V8.5 and require expandkeyin.ma to…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Using expand keyin and $ Gino wrote this in v8.general with his favorite crayola: MicroStation V8.5 - expand keyin expands configuration variables in the key-in, then sends it to MicroStation. The…

Original Tip Date: November 2003 Updated: December 2010 Start an application from within MicroStation Gino Cortesi was caught writing this on the board and ended up with detention after class: "...the % syntax now supports associations…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Start an application and suspend MicroStation MicroStation V8.5 - The %% and percentpercent keyins will run an application while halting/suspending MicroStation. %%winword Will suspend MicroStation…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Start an application and keep MicroStation running MicroStation V8.5 - The % and percent keyins will start an application while keeping MicroStation running. %winword Will launch MS Word. percent…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003 Suspend MicroStation, open a DOS window and start another application MicroStation V8.5 - Both ! and bang will suspend/halt MicroStation, open a command shell and, if instructed, also send a string…

Original Tip Date: November 2003 Updated: July 2011 When making a cell directly in a model, or when using a model as a cell, the cell origin will be positioned at location XY=0,0 in the 2D world and XY=0,0,0 in a 3D world…

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…

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…

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…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 13, 2003 Convert tags to text V8 Brien Bastings shares that you can use this keyin to convert tags to text in MicroStation 08.01.02.15 or later: change tags droptext AskInga…

Original Tip Date: November 2003 Updated: October 2010 Create fence from flood Create a fence by entering a datapoint inside of a closed area! This was added in MicroStation V8.5 AskInga Tip…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 18, 2003 Define tabs and indents Snipped from MicroStation V8's Help: The Word Processor Text Editor window has a ruler for setting tab stops and indents. The ruler works like the rulers in basic word processing…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 18, 2003 Super fast text editing Snipped from Help: A shortcut exists in V8.5 for editing a text element: Select the Element Selection tool. Position that tool's arrow pointer on the text element you want…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 19, 2003 Put different text in the preview window This is neat...rather than using the name of the text style for the preview window in 8.5, select View > Preview Text from the Text Styles dialog. Select…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 19, 2003 Toggle text preview MicroStation V8.5 - Don't have a need for the text preview in the Text Styles dialog? Then use the Preview Toggle button to turn it off. AskInga…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 19, 2003 Windows Tip - Customize My Documents With thanks to Gino for sharing this tip. You can easily customize the My Documents location to point to other folders by simply adding shortcuts. All you got…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 20, 2003 Disable auto-highlighting when passing cursor over elements In MicroStation XM, filled shapes "strobe" as you move your cursor over them. This is partly the result of having AccuSnap's Identify…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 20, 2003 Change update sequence with drag/drop In MicroStation V8.5, you can easily rearrange the reference update sequence by dragging and dropping the entries where needed. …