Original Tip Date: May 1, 2001 Keyin to access a website from MicroStation You can use either of these keyins to launch your browser, go to a specific URL and open the E-Links tool box: mdl silentload webbrows; browse url [insert…

Original Tip Date: May 2001 Updated: October 2010 On using PopSet When using PopSet, you can open the tool settings dialog under the cursor by pressing CTRL+SPACE . Thanks to Sean Forward for submitting this dose of MicroStation Medicine! …

Original Tip Date: May 2001 Updated: August 2010 To access the BASIC Editor Use this keyin to quickly load the BASIC editor: mdl load basicde AskInga Tip #99

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Where new words go When you add words via the Spell Checker, they get added to the file being pointed to by MS_SPELLINGUSERDICTIONARY . By default this is ...\Bentley\Workspace\system\data\msspell…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Editing Dictionary Files Did you know that you can open and edit Spell Checker dictionaries with any text based editor? AskInga Tip #311

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Use the same spell checker dictionary as Microsoft Word Bentley's Mike Evans shared this on the v8.general newsgroup. Very cool! To use the same dictionary as you would in Microsoft Word, point MS_SPELLINGUSERDICTIONARY…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 Convert single lines of text to a multiline text node If you've got several single lines of text that you'd like to convert to a chunk of multi-line text ... meaning a text node ... try this: Put…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 3, 2003 White to black conversion when printing For historic reasons, MicroStation does not use the same logic for automatic white-to-black conversion when printing as it does for view display. Only color…

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: Oct. 3, 2003 Reset the Graphic Group number Phil Chouinard posted this to the v7.general newsgroup: To reset the Graphic Group number, use this keyin: mdl keyin calculat calc tcb->graphic=1 …

Original Tip Date: Oct. 6, 2003 Set up a seed file for your UPF file Getting tired of having to reset your user preferences after you've deleted your UPF file? If so, then utilize MS_USERPREFSEED . Here's how: Set up your preferences…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 6, 2003 Deleting your UPF while retaining most settings Ya learn someting new everday! This little gem was posted by Chris Zakrewsky to the v8.general newsgroup: Delete the UPF file while inside of MicroStation…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 6, 2003 Transient Elements in MicroStation V8 Perhaps you've seen the message Element is a Transient Element in either the status bar or message center and have wondered what what that's all about…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 6, 2003 Quickly see your fonts Can't remember what font 42 looks like? Try keying in show font . Then again, you can get to the same dialog by simply keyin in DF= AskInga…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 13, 2003 Expand Element Info with an asterisk To quickly expand the element tree in the Element Information dialog, press the * on your keyboard. This is standard Windows functionality and will work in Windows…

Original Tip Date: October 2003 Updated: October 2010 Exit a file without saving changes With thanks to Karl Peterson for this tip. Want to close a file without saving your changes? Then go and turn off Workspace > Preferences…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 16, 2003 Keyin to toggle through your open views Thanks to Chuck Rheault for enlightening us with this: To toggle through all open views, put this keyin on a function key: window bottomtotop It will take…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 17, 2003 Combine / Merge existing shapes If you've got several shapes that need combining, put them into a selection set, then use Construct Region with the method set to Union . …

Original Tip Date: October 2003 Updated: October 2010 Multiple marks Did you know that you can have multiple marks in a file? Very cool for being able to undo to different points in your design process. To test this out, create a new file…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 20, 2003 Maximum cell size The maximum size for a cell in V7 is 128Kb. The maximum allowable cell size in V8 is 4Gb. AskInga Tip #324

Original Tip Date: Oct. 28, 2003 TTF and SHX text have font numbers too! MicroStation fonts are numbers 0 - 255. AutoCAD's SHX fonts are numbers 512 - 1023 And, the Windows TTF fonts are numbers 1024 - 65535 …

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: Oct. 29, 2003 Keyin to set the text style to none This cool V8 keyin was authored and posted to the v8.text newsgroup by none other than Phil Chouinard : Use this keyin to set the active text style to none :…

Original Tip Date: Oct. 29, 2003 Delete design history To delete design history out of your file, set this configuration variable: MS_DESIGN_HISTORY=delete=1 Restart MicroStation, then keyin history delete Bentley…

Original Tip Date: Nov. 3, 2003 Put secondary dimensions in parenthesis Karl Detrick posted this "stoopid trick" in the v8.dimensioning newsgroup. Too cool! To place your secondary dimensions in parenthesis, go to the…