Microstation Shortcuts

Managing Design Files

Shortcuts
1 : Ctrl+N
New / Create Design File
2 : Ctrl+O
Open Design File
3 : Ctrl+W
Closes the active design file
4 : Ctrl+S
Save changes
5 : Ctrl+F
Save Settings
6 : Ctrl+P
Print / Plot Dialog

Editing

Shortcuts
7 : Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+R
Undo / Redo
8 : Ctrl+x,?Ctrl+c,?Ctrl+v
Cut, Copy, Paste
9 : Ctrl+G
Group current selection
10 : Ctrl+U
Ungroup current selection
11 : Ctrl+L
Lock element
12 : Ctrl+M
Unlock element
13 : Ctrl+I
Element?Information
14 : Ctrl+E
View Levels Display
15 : Ctrl+B
View Attributes
16 : Ctrl+T
Tool Boxes?dialog

Manage Accudraw/Acusnap

Shortcuts
17 : ?
Open the AccuDraw Shortcuts window.
18 : h,?a
Suspend AccuDraw for the current tool operation. Selecting a new tool, or entering a Reset re-enables AccuDraw.
19 : h,?s
Toggle AccuSnap on/off.
20 : h,?u
Suspends AccuSnap for the current tool operation. Selecting a new tool, or entering a Reset re-enables AccuSnap.
21 : Q
Deactivates AccuDraw.

Drawing Plane

Shortcuts
22 : Enter
Smart LockIn Rectangular coordinates,
23 : Space
Switches between Rectangular and Polar coordinates.
24 : O
Moves the drawing plane?origin to the current pointer position.
25 : V
Rotate drawing plane to align with the?view axes.
26 : T
Rotate the drawing plane to align with the axes in a standard?Top view.
27 : F
Rotate the drawing plane to align with the axes in a standard?Front view.
28 : S
Rotate the drawing plane to align with the axes in a standard?Side view.
29 : B
Rotate the drawing plane to align with the active ACS,
30 : E
Rotate?between three main planes: top, front, and side (3D only). This also works when your original plane is an ACS or context rotation, so you do not have to use RX, RY to rotate to a 90? plane.
31 : r,c
Rotate the drawing plane to the?current ACS.
32 : r,?e
Rotate the drawing plane to match the orientation of a selected element.
33 : r,?v
Rotate the active?view to match the current drawing plane.
34 : r,?x
Rotate the drawing plane 90? about its?x-axis.
35 : r,?y
Rotate the drawing plane 90? about its?y-axis.
36 : r,?z
Rotate the drawing plane 90? about its?z-axis.
37 : r,?q
Quickly and temporarily rotate the drawing plane.
38 : r,?a
Permanently rotate the drawing plane.

Lock Elements

Shortcuts
39 : X
Toggle the lock status for the?X?value.
40 : Y
Toggle the lock status for the?Y?value.
41 : Z
Toggle the lock status for the?Z?value.
42 : D
Toggle the lock status for the?Distance value.
43 : A
Toggle the lock status for the?Angle value.
44 : l,?i
Locks the current?index state.
45 : l,?p
Toggle ACS Grid?Plane lock
46 : l,?a
Toggle?ACS Plane lock.
47 : l,?s
Toggle ACS Plane?snap lock.
48 : l,?z
Toggle Sticky?Z?Lock, which is used in conjunction with ACS Plane Snap Lock to force a series of snap points to lie on the active ACS’ XY plane (Z=0).

Dialog Boxes

Shortcuts
49 : ~
Bump an item in the tool settings dialog box
50 : g,?t
Move focus to the?Tool Settings window.
51 : g,?k
Move focus to?Key-in window
52 : g,?s
Move focus to AccuDraw?Settings dialog box
53 : g,?a
Open the?get?ACS?dialog box
54 : w,?a
Open the?Write to ACS?dialog box
55 : P
Open the?Data?Point Key-in?dialog box
56 : M
Open the?Data Point Key-in?dialog box for?entering?multiple data points.
57 : I
Activates?Intersect snap mode.
58 : N
Activates Nearest snap mode.
59 : C
Activates Center snap mode.
60 : K
open the?Keypoint Snap Divisor?dialog box, which is used to set the Snap Divisor for keypoint snapping.