


These shortcut key-ins are are stored in the same shortcut text file as your AccuDraw shortcuts. In the image above we see that pressing W on the keyboard when the Popups menu is displayed will start the Move Element tool. Hovering over a tool will display the tool name and shortcut. Each of the tool icons in the Popups menu also has a keyboard shortcut associated with it. The bottom row contains the common Annotation tools and Drawing Aids. The second row of tool icons gives direct access to the most common manipulation tools. Selecting one of the top row icons will display that section of the ribbon at your cursor location. The top row of tools in the Popups menu corresponds to the tool groupings in the Home ribbon. This shortcut displays the Popups menu centered about your current cursor location. Another set of shortcuts is controlled by pressing the keyboard Space Bar.

For example, pressing the letter A on the keyboard displays the Attributes section of the ribbon centered about your current cursor location. Pressing one of those letters on the keyboard will display that section of the ribbon at your cursor location. Following the section labels at the bottom of each tool grouping there is a letter in parentheses. With the new ribbon interface in MicroStation CONNECT replacing the MicroStation V8i Task Bar a new set of keyboard shortcuts has replaced positional keyboard mapping shortcuts.
