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…

Original Tip Date: September 2006 Updated: November 2011 To print a message, try these keyins: M,ER[message] Prints the message on the left side of the status bar. M,ST[message] Prints the message on the right side of the status bar in MicroStation…

Original Tip Date: Nov 30, 2006 Keyin to "save as" with a file name With thanks to Alexander Molotov for sharing this tip on the discussion groups: To perform a save as with a file name, use this keyin: backup filename Include…

Original Tip Date: February 2001 Updated: July 2011 DL=[Enter] can be used in place of DL=0,0,0 . For those of you who haven't been around MicroStation as long as some of us, you may find the following of interest. Before AccuDraw was added…

Original Tip Date: Jul. 17, 2002 Dealing with spaces in names when using keyins. MicroStation V8 - Spaces in your file names and model names will have to be hugged by double quotes in your keyins. For example, to attach a…

Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001 To open the previous file Use Alt + F, 2 to open the previous file. AskInga Tip #17

Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001 Use the | key to repeat keyins Use the pipe key(|) to copy an element a specified number of times when using the DX= command. For example: To copy an element 30 times with a spacing of 5 units keyin…

Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001 Paste into the keyin window. V7 - Notice that CTRL + V doesn't work to "paste" text into the key-in field? Be sure the input focus is in the key-in window and use SHIFT + Insert instead! …

Original Tip Date: Feb 16, 2001 Combine your keyins! Combine keyins by separating them with a semi-colon. For instance: lv=5;co=6;of=1-63 will have the same effect as keying in the commands separately. AskInga…

Original Tip Date: Mar. 3, 2003 Use keyboard shortcuts to launch your programs Here's a great tip that Thor Leslie posted to the V8.General newsgroup: From your desktop program icon, right-click and go to Properties . Then put…

Looking back to when I first started working on MicroStation there was very little information available to those of us with the fiddler in us. Web sites have come and gone and it's great to see this build up to the BE Community. I've had this list over…

Original Article Date: April 2001 Updated: December 2010 Was it CTRL+B or CTRL+VA to get to the View Attributes dialog? And what was that handy one for Redo? Here's a list with all the accelerator keys to hang on your wall! http://communities…

Original Post Date: August 2002 Updated: August 2010 MicroStation's Calculator / Preprocessor For those of you who've been frequenting the web as a resource for all things MicroStation, you may have run into keyins that contain mdl load calculat…

Original Article Date: January 2003 Updated: August 2010 Capturing messages from the dialog debugger Ever wondered how to save those MicroStation Messages when the Dialog Debugger is enabled? Take a peek at this article to learn the keyins needed…

Original Article Date: March 2003 Updated: February 2010 Note: The content in this article is for pre-V8 versions of MicroStation only. Did you know that you can activate dialogs, tool boxes and tool frames just by using a keyin? Do you know…

Original Article Date: Feb 14, 2005 A handy reference guide to MicroStation V8 2004 Edition keyins! Note, this list is no longer being maintained, so take what you need and leave the rest. With many thanks to Bentley's Joe Allen…

Original Article Date: Aug 3, 2001 A reference list for MicroStation/J's keyins. Note, this article is no longer being maintained. Take what you need and leave the rest. 2004-12-20 Added a missing keyin. 2005-03-15 Posted a PDF of the list…

Original Article Date: Nov 24, 2006 With thanks to Eric Cooper for this article. Available in all versions of MicroStation, the key-in browser is used to browse, construct and enter commands in order to have MicroStation perform or execute a specific…

Original Article Date: April 3, 2000 Find all of MicroStation's keyboard shortcuts listed here. It's a great reference to print out and hang on your wall. 2007-05-14 Updated Angle AA= Sets the active angle Auxiliary Coordinate…

Original Article Date: January 2001 Updated: August 2006 Originally titled The Power of Keyins - Part 2 and published in the July 2000 issue of the MicroStation Manager Magazine , this tutorial covers how to create script files to streamline your…

Original Article Date: Jan 1, 2001 Originally titled The Power of Keyins - Part 1 and published in the June 2000 issue of the MicroStation Manager Magazine , this article explores MicroStation's keyins. 2001-01-29 Original posting date. …

Original Article Date: Jan 2, 2007 Although MicroStation V8 can use AutoCAD commands via PGP files, it only executes the command, and that’s about it. On the other hand, the Alias Manager opens the correct tool box and highlights the proper icon…