Bentley MicroStation Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands Cheat Sheet
A quick guide to infrastructure and road and bridge design. Provided MicroStation Commonly used keyboard Key-in commands, AccuDraw Axis lock shortcut keys and viewport management, supported A4 Print.
AccuDraw The essence of extreme speed, lock the current cursor location X axis or Y-axis.
Single axis locking X-axis direction.
Single axis locking Y axis direction.
Quickly switch between Cartesian and polar coordinate systems.
Exit the currently active drawing tool and return to the default selection state.
Activates or deactivates the element element selection tool.
Bring up the viewport properties panel and display/Hide layer fill or line weight.
Save all current viewport perspective attributes to prevent the viewport from being reset after closing the software.
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