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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…
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!
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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…
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
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…