Element Tips

Recover Missing Elements from Your MicroStation Files

By Eiren Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.AxiomInt.com Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been working on a design file for weeks. You’ve filled it with elements to your heart’s content. One fine morning, you load the... (Continue reading)

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Recover Deleted Elements You Thought to be Gone Forever

You have just executed a fence deletion and watched in horror as thousands of the wrong elements disappeared. You didn’t notice your active fence setting was set to “Void” instead of “Inside”. You try “Undo”, but there is still a... (Continue reading)

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Easily Delete Linear Elements Partially Overlapping Other Linear Elements

By Eiren Smith, Axiom’s Vice President for Technology – www.axiomint.com Accidental, duplicate elements are a fact of life for nearly all MicroStation sites. They cause plotting problems, selection trouble (elements that take forever to select with the Area Selection tool,... (Continue reading)

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MicroStation Tip Corner

Easily re-select V8 elements Bored of having to re-select the same elements over and over again, especially when you have carefully selected a group of components and then click on the view window deactivating the selection? You can key in... (Continue reading)

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Quick element selection — for V7 and V8!

by Rick DeWitt, Axiom’s Senior Technology Officer You probably know that if you drag the element selection tool, you can select any element that is completely inside the selection area (shown as a dashed line below). But, what you may... (Continue reading)

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Easily trim elements using the Trim Element tool.

By Bob Knepp of American Electric Power, Gahanna, Ohio Do you have new users that don’t really get the IntelliTrim tool yet? Here is an easy way to trim several elements very quickly using the MicroStation Trim Element command along... (Continue reading)

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Align Tool in MicroStation J

by Rick DeWitt, Axiom’s Senior Technology Officer Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of text elements that need to be left aligned due to the fact that they were placed without regard for alignment and look rather sloppy. To fix... (Continue reading)

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