Hello reader, I am Architecture student and will be buying a MacBook Pro Retina 15' very soon (If I wanted a PC I would have bought one so please don't comment on that). I use Microstation for some of my design work and will be using Parallel or Bootcamp to run this program on my MBPR, I want to get a Magic Mouse but I do not know if the controls or gestures will work with the program i.e. panning around an object in 3D. I called Bentley Support (The software producers of Microstation) and they said oddly enough told me it hadn't been tested before. So if you have been or know of someone in this situation I would be most grateful if you could let me know if the controls on the Magic Mouse work with Microstation or if I need to get a mouse with a scroll wheel. Furthermore if I do need to get a standard mouse w/ scroll wheel what would you recommend? It can be within the same budget as the magic mouse but has to be wireless (Bluetooth preferred), ergonomic and well designed. Thank you all for taking your time to read this rather lengthy description and I do look forward to hopeful helpful comments. Oh and have a wonderful New Year!

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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. Following the section labels at the bottom of each tool grouping there is a letter in parentheses.

Pressing one of those letters on the keyboard will display that section of the ribbon at your cursor location. For example, pressing the letter A on the keyboard displays the Attributes section of the ribbon centered about your current cursor location. Another set of shortcuts is controlled by pressing the keyboard Space Bar. This shortcut displays the Popups menu centered about your current cursor location.

The top row of tools in the Popups menu corresponds to the tool groupings in the Home ribbon. Selecting one of the top row icons will display that section of the ribbon at your cursor location. The second row of tool icons gives direct access to the most common manipulation tools. The bottom row contains the common Annotation tools and Drawing Aids. Each of the tool icons in the Popups menu also has a keyboard shortcut associated with it. Hovering over a tool will display the tool name and shortcut.

MicroStation cannot be installed on Mac computer directly. It can be installed only on a Mac running Windows in either Boot Camp, VMWare Fusion or Parallels. It has been reported that Boot Camp with Windows is a successful configuration, however, like other unsupported environments this.

In the image above we see that pressing W on the keyboard when the Popups menu is displayed will start the Move Element tool. These shortcut key-ins are are stored in the same shortcut text file as your AccuDraw shortcuts. Changing the Space Bar shortcut has necessitated the following changes to the default AccuDraw shortcuts:

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• How is it in new Microstation CONNECT? Rod Wing Reply 8:48am. MicroStation V8i is a 32bit application, while MicroStation CONNECT is a true 64bit application. This means MicroStation CONNECT can utilize the full memory space on a 64bit operating system and is better able to handle larger point clouds. Pcramirez Reply 9:01pm.
• In this 2D training video series we'll be covering the very basics of MicroStation CONNECT Edition operations. We start in this video with launching the soft.

• M – Change Mode (previously the Space Bar shortcut)
• PM – Multi-Point Key-in (previously the M shortcut)
• PP– Single-Point Key-in (previously the P shortcut)

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All of these shortcuts can be edited through the AccuDraw Settings dialog or by selecting File > Settings > User > Keyboard Shortcuts

Microstation Connect Main Classic Toolbox

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