• Levels

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Hide level library name

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Climb up your levels

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Keyin to delete level contents

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • How to filter levels when there's a dash in the name

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Force new levels in references to be on

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Delete unused levels when remapping

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Turn the CTRL+E Level Display dialog into a pop-up

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Level purge keyin

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Keyin to save changes to reference levels or not.

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Move elements from one level to another

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Add levels to your PDFs

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Make CTRL+E toggle for the Level Display dialog

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Very cool keyin to turn level filters on-off

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • DWG to DGN and the default level

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Keyin to set a level filter

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Turn off levels by simply selecting an element

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Trivia about the default level

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Auto-update reference level display symbology and more

    Inga Morozoff
    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
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  • Compare design files without level symbology

    Jordan Stierly
    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
    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
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  • Toggle the global display of level and level filters

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Freeze a level by selecting an element

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Set override defaults for new level creation

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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  • Toggle the global display of levels

    Jordan Stierly
    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
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