Posts Tagged ‘elements’

Quick Element Selection — for V7 and V8

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 not know is that by holding down... (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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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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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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