From the course: Learning Bentley MicroStation V8i

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using the Key-in browser

Using the Key-in browser - MicroStation Tutorial

From the course: Learning Bentley MicroStation V8i

Start my 1-month free trial

Using the Key-in browser

- Now let's take a look at another option for using key-in commands. I'm going to open the key-in browser dialogue using the Help pull-down menu. MicroStation provides this command line dialogue for typing in commands, rather than selecting buttons. So if you're very keyboard oriented, and you would prefer to key in all of your commands, this is where you can do that. However I must warn you that MicroStation key-in commands are quite long and probably not the most efficient way to use the application. Let's look at a quick example. I will select the Place Line command. And if you look at the Tool Settings dialogue, you will see that the command line is Place Line. The best way to learn all the key-in commands is to use the key-in browser's lower sections and look them up. First, let me demonstrate how this command line works. I will key in the Place Line command. When I type in P-L-A, the remaining part of the word is automatically filled in. So I can hit the Space key and start…

Contents