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Looking at the Modify commands

Looking at the Modify commands - MicroStation Tutorial

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Looking at the Modify commands

- Next we'll look at the Modify commands. Using ViewGroup, select the Modify element model. The Modify command is located in the main toolbox at the top of the task navigation dialogue. I will hold down the Modify button and select Open Modify as a Toolbox so that we can go through some of the tools on the toolbox. The first command that we are going to look at is Modify. Modify Element will modify any element type in the drawing file. And if you look at the tool settings dialogue, there are no settings to find until you select an element. This is one command that requires you to do something before it can populate the tool settings dialogue. If I select the line element, there will not be any options except to modify either end of the line. If I select a shape element, I have options in the tool settings to modify the vertex type or to make it non orthogonal. If I turn off orthogonal, I can modify the shape with any vertex angle. Orthogonal will force the vertices to maintain a 90…

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