Original Article Date: Nov 17, 2003
Macros for absolute values/coordinates
Another excellent contribution from fellow Canuck Doug Watt . This WattWare is a set of three macros to simplify the placement of datapoints…
Original Article Date: Feb 1, 2001
MSM featured this article authored by Dave Brumbaugh which discusses generating contours from survey data and even supplied the necessary code to accomplish this task. The article has now found a new home and reads…
Original Article Date: Feb 1, 2003
This application will help you to automate tasks where no graphics are involved -- for reporting, or for bulk modifications. Originally published in MSM magazine February 2003
During my support career I remember…
Original Article Date: January 2004
Updated: December 2010
Gerald Hernandez , president of Geospatial Paradigm Solutions, Inc. , contributed this slick VBA macro that will execute a set of commands every time a design file is opened and/or closed…
Original Article Date: June 3, 2004
If you have a need to change the orientation of your dimension terminators from outside to inside, or vice versa, then this macro might be of some use. This article and it's contents are applicable to MicroStation…
Original Article Date: July 26, 2004
With many thanks to Thor Leslie for sharing this utility. In a nutshell, Memory Points allows you to store, recall, name and re-use up to five sets of coordinate values. A great addition for users who are finding…
Original Article Date: Feb 18, 2005
With many thanks to Mike Francisco for this little application that makes changing dimension terminators a whole lot easier.
Download 232.zip and extract LeaderChange.mvba from the zip file. Place the mvba…
Original Article Date: April 5, 2005
With many thanks to Rodney Wing for contributing this VBA macro that allows you to display used levels individually in a slide-show type of manner. If you tend to crawl up and down your levels a lot, you may find…
Original Aritcle Date: March 12, 2003
You bored? Need to kill some time, or simply add some excitement into your day? Play MDLroids with MicroStation. 2004-10-25 Added the V7 version - Thanks Brien!
The infamous MdlRoids now works with MicroStation…
Original Article Date: April 5, 2005
With many thanks to Rudi Wells for sharing this very cool VBA macro that changes your MicroStation taskbar icon. Now you'll be able to differentiate between V8.1 and V8.5 when they're both running! Way to go…
Original Article Date: April 5, 2005
Another neat utility whipped up by Gerald Hernandez in response to a users need to show element verticies without the use of the Element Selection tool. This is terrific for seeing where the vertices are located…
Original Article Date: April 5, 2005
Authored and contributed by Gerald Hernandez , this terrific little utility gives you an alternate solution to the age old question of "How can I drop my simple shapes down to line strings?".
Download 241…
Original Article Date: June 6, 2005
With thanks to Peter Terrat for sharing these excellent macros. One is used for turning the fill display on/off, while the other is used to set the active fill type back to none . How can you live without them? …
Original Article Date: July 6, 2003
Here's a nice selection of colour / color tables to fiddle with. 2004-02-19 Added the 22nd colour table from Jeffrey Malter . See Page 4. 2004-06-02 Added 15 more from John Evans , see pages 5-7. 2004-11-08 Added…
Original Article Date: Aug 12, 2005
With thanks to Peter Overtoom from Bentley's Technical Support Group in Hoofddorp for this VBA code that changes the system text colour used for displaying disabled menu items. And, as always, thanks to Rudi Wells…
Original Article Date: Aug 12, 2005
Rudi found this macro on the discussion groups, cleaned it up a little and has been using it been using it since...its very cool. It lets you change to the next file in the directory or the previous file in the current…
Original Article Date: Aug 12. 2005
With thanks to Robert Wojtczak for this nice macro that makes a copy of your active file and appends the current date to it.
Download 260.zip and extract SaveCopyNow.mvba from the zip file. Place the mvba in…
Original Article Date: Oct 4, 2005
With a great big 'thank you' to Alexander Molotov for contributing this aritcle that describes how to make saved views that much easier. Way to go for thinking out of the box and sharing your expertise with the MicroStation…
Original Article Date: February 2004
Updated: October 2005, August 2010
With many thanks to Henry van Berkel , Peter Emmen , Kees van Prooijen and Krister Surell for these macros that allow you to easily extract information from your attached color…
Original Article Date: November 2005
Updated: December 2012
To open Windows Explorer to the folder of the open file, key in:
%%.
To open Windows Explorer to the folder of the open file, and have it selected, try this key in:
$ % explorer…
Original Article Date: Nov 7, 2005
With thanks to Alexie Karavakis for contributing this VBA macro that allow you to set and get the active angle based on a selected element such as a line, text, cell, or curve. It also contains some cool options for…
Original Article Date: December 2005
Updated: January 2012
You'll find the V8 version of Ranjit Sahai's MSMTOOLS.MA here. Use this set of tools to place breaklines, pipe ends, north arrows, steps, grids, labeled utility lines, and stopbars in your…
Original Article Date: Dec 21, 2005
With thanks to Alexander Molotov for developing Change View . He has certainly out-done himself this time with this utility that contains various tools for automating the view display. Automove, Eagle Eye, and AutoCADish…
Original Article Date: Feb 28, 2006
With thanks to John Knighton for the suggestion to do this article. A sidebar menu (SBM) is a text-based, hierarchical menu system that was introduced in the earliest versions of MicroStation. Although they…
Original Articl e Date: May 30, 2006
With thanks to Bentley's Wayne Marsh for contributing this slick macro that allows you to attach multimedia files to graphical elements.
Download 297.zip and extract xdata.mvba from the file. Place the mvba…