What's New?
What's New?
What's New?

Menu Changes for the 2004 Edition

The following sections list changes in the menu structure for MicroStation V8 2004 Edition. The Edit, Workspace, and Window menus are unchanged.

File menu changes

The Open URL item is removed. The functionality exists in the 2004 Edition and as before you can access it by keying in DIALOG GETURL.

The Compress Design item is moved to a submenu of the File menu (Compress > Design). The submenu also has an Options item, which is used to open the Compress Options dialog box.

The Viecon.plot menu item is removed.

Element menu changes

The Dimensions item is replaced by Dimension Styles.

The Multi-lines menu item is replaced by Multi-line Styles.

The Feature Modeling submenu is used to open dialog boxes used to adjust feature modeling settings. This submenu is also the entry point for the Feature Manager window.

Settings menu changes

Choosing Database > Verify Linkages opens the Verify Database Linkages dialog box, which is used to change and remove database linkages and verify them in the database.

The menu item Locks > Annotation Scale toggles the usage of Annotation Scale, which is particularly useful for composing drawings as sheet models.

Choosing Snaps > Multi-snaps opens the Multi-snaps dialog box, which is used to define multi-snaps.

In the Snaps submenu, choosing Multi-snap1, Multi-snap2, or Multi-snap3 activates the corresponding multi-snap.

Tools menu changes

The Feature Modeling submenu is used to open tool boxes that contain feature modeling tools.

Utilities menu changes

Choosing Standards Checker > Check opens the Standards Checker dialog box, which is used to configure and run the Standards Checker utility.

Choosing Standards Checker > Configure opens the Standards Checker Settings dialog box, which is used to adjust settings that specify standards against which the Standards Checker utility performs checks.

Choosing Dimension Audit opens the Dimension Audit dialog box, which is used to configure and run the Dimension Audit utility.

Choosing DWG > Audit starts the DWG Audit utility.

Choosing DWG > Recover opens the Recover DWG File dialog box, which is used to select a DWG file to recover.

Help menu changes

The Discussion Groups item enables easy access to Bentley discussion groups.