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Original Tip Date: Oct. 29, 2003 Right click menu in the tool settings box ! Oh man, you're gonna love this! MicroStation V8 - All keyin fields in the tool settings box now have a right-click menu. Check out for yourself…

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 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. 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: Dec. 3, 2003 Change the weight of your V7 element handles This is kind of a neat thing to do. By default the weight of element handles is WT=8, but this can be changed by doing the following: …

Original Tip Date: Dec. 15, 2003 Give MicroStation an antiqued look While they were taking a course on faux finishing, Barry Bentley , Rudi Well , and Teresa Zager remembered that MicroStation has it's own antiqued look! Command…

Original Tip Date: Feb. 9, 2004 Set Design History Colours You didn't learn this here. :-) Set MS_DESIGN_HISTORY_COLORS to all white or all black depending upon your background colour. …

Original Tip Date: Mar. 9, 2004 Set the pointer circle to a different colour To change the color of the circle stuck to your pointer, use this keyin: set xor followed by one of these colour options: blue, black, cyan…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 16, 2004 Customize V8's working unit labels Don't like the delivered labels for the working units? Change 'em! With thanks to Samir Haque for enlightening me! AskInga Tip…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 22, 2004 User Interface Hierarchy You can create hierarchical interfaces by simply changing the extension of the ustn.m01 file. The order of processing is like this: 1. ustn.r01, ustn.r02,...u stn.r99…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 24, 2004 Restore menu bar customizations With many thanks to Miro Mates for sharing this keyin on the discussion boards: If you've been customizing MicroSation's menu bar and want to scrap what…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 30, 2004 Using a tablet? Take a peek at the new V8.5 menu! Still using a tablet to operate MicroStation? If so, you might be interested in the cool new menu designed by Andrew Novinc and delivered…

Original Tip Date: Apr. 8, 2004 Add custom file types to List Files of Type The following technique can be used when you're configured to use the standard Windows dialogs from: Workspace > Preferences > Look and Feel …

Original Tip Date: April 2004 Updated: August 2010 Keyin to toggle cursor style and size Rather than going to Workspace > Preferences > Input > Pointer Size to swap from a small cursor to a large one, just put this keyin on a function key…

Original Tip Date: Sep 26, 2005 All about thumbnail generation How to tell MicroStation what graphics to display for the thumbnail found in the MicroStation Manager: The configuration variable MS_THUMBNAIL can be used to control…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2005 Improve on the dmsg sinkall toggle command Martin Noorlander wrote this with a blue dry erase marker: If you use this keyin dmsg sinkall toggle , then the snaps dialog and keyin window…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 29, 2005 Quickly change screens on dialogs Joel Aili submitted this tip: A quick way to move a dialog from one monitor to the other is to pick the Bentley B logo on the top left of the title…

Original Tip Date: Feb 23, 2005 Keyin to toggle dialogs on and off Here's a great shortcut from Bentley's Rudi Wells ! If you want to toggle open dialogs from your view temporarily, put this on a function key: …

Original Tip Date: Jan. 9, 2006 Change how levels are displayed in the Attributes dialog In MicroStation V8 XM Edition you can set MS_LEVEL_DISPLAY_FORMAT to specifies the level name formatting to use when level lists are…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 11, 2006 ESC to go home In MicroStation V8 XM Edition, you can go home by pressing the escape ESC key. Related Tip: Set the focus to home with ESC ESC …

Original Tip Date: Jan 12, 2006 Auto-hide the tools settings when cursor gets too close In MicroStation V8 XM Edition you'll find a new PopSet property called Hide Border . The value for this setting is the size in pixels…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 12, 2006 Left-handers unite! Change position mapping to your side You a left-hander stuck in a right-hander world? If so, then go to Workspace > Preferences > Position Mapping and click on the button…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 12, 2006 Turn on/off positional mapping aids If you no longer want the positional mapping aids displayed on each tool icon, go to Workspace > Preferences > Position Mapping and turn off Show Position…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 12, 2006 Quick Select with position mapping When Position Mapping is enabled in MicroStation V8 XM Edition, you can press the keyboard shortcut key to bring up the cursor menu, or press SHIFT + Key…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 12, 2006 Updated 2009-12-18 hen the focus is home in MicroStation V8 XM Edition, press ENTER to open the key-in browser at your cursor! And, if your not at home, press F9 ! NOTE…