Original Tip Date: Nov. 5, 2003

Using expand keyin and $

Gino wrote this in v8.general with his favorite crayola: MicroStation V8.5 - expand keyin expands configuration variables in the key-in, then sends it to MicroStation. The $ keyin is an alias for expand keyin. For example: expand keyin create cell $(basename(_dgnfile) Attempts to create a cell using the name of the file. $ create cell $(basename(_dgnfile)) Is the same as above. The above keyins will only work when expandkeyin.ma is loaded.

 

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