Original Tip Date: Oct. 2, 2003 Number of clip masks allowed Barry Bentley wrote in v8.general: "You can have up to 200 clip shapes (if 1 is used for the boundary, the other 199 can be used for clip masks). They can total up to…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 V7 Workmode and Live Nesting Live Nesting in the V7 Workmode is not a sticky setting. AskInga Tip #307

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. …

Original Tip Date: Nov. 21, 2003 Can't see all of your reference tools? MicroStation V8 - If you've minimized the reference dialog so much that you can't see the tool icons, turn on Auto Arrange Icons from the Settings menu. That…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 21, 2003 Unfold your references with ease MicroStation V8.5 - When creating plot layouts of orthogonal views, use the Copy/Fold Reference tool to quickly attach and arrange adjacent views! …

Original Tip Date: November 2003 Updated: October 2010 Attach references without a dialog When attaching a reference in MicroStation V8 2004 Edition or later, set your attachment method from the Attach Reference dialog. You…

Original Tip Date: Dec. 3, 2003 Turn off highlighting when manipulating references MicroStation V8.5 - To turn off the highlighting when manipulating a reference, set MS_REF_DONTHILITEFORMANIP to any value. …

Original Tip Date: Dec. 8, 2003 Display references with greater clarity MicroStation V8 - Got too much to look at? Can't keep your references straight? Try setting the Reference Presentation to something other than wireframe. The…

Original Tip Date: Jan. 16, 2004 Force MicroStation to look at the full path of references To force MicroStation V8 to always look at and use the full path of reference attachments, set this variable: MS_REF_FULLPATHFIRST = 1 …

Original Tip Date: Jan. 22, 2004 Keyin to attach references With thanks to Barry Bentley for sharing this: MicroStation V8 - You need at least five arguments to the RF= command to keep it from asking you for more information. RF=file_name…

Original Tip Date: Feb. 9, 2004 Drag and Drop models into reference dialog Lawrence Eaton was let out of school early to share this tip: When doing self-references in V8, simply drag and drop models from the model dialog into the…

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: May 10, 2004 To enable the editing of nested reference levels By default you can not adjust the overrides for a nested reference. Go to File/Settings/Configuration/Configuration Variables Select Category - Levels…

Original Tip Date: Jun. 7, 2005 Rewrite reference attachments without the full path MicroStation V8 - Bentley's John Frampton says: A reference attachment that specifies the DGN file containing the attached model by its full (absolute…

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: Sep 26, 2005 Use saved views from references for navigating - Part 1 Matthew DeBeliso from City of San Diego Water & Sewer Design Division offers this awesome tip! Did you know that a saved view created in a…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 24, 2005 Keyin to make a nested attachment a direct attachment Here's the scoop from Barry Bentley : Specify the nested reference you want to make a direct attachment by giving the "path" to it. For example…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 24, 2005 Exchange into reference, keep the current view, and don't update it With many thanks to Rudi Wells for sharing this tip! Since the beginning of time you've been able to exchange the active file…

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: 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: 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: 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: 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,…