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Exercise: Working with MicroStation Views

Exercise: Working with MicroStation Views

We have discuss how MicroStation views can give you great benefits. Now we are going to do a little exercise. Download this file before you start, and open it. Creating and Activating View Group Let us create a MicroStation view group.This view group will save the arrangement we made when working with views, and leave the default settings unchanged. Activate MicroStation View Group.   In the opened dialog, click create view group. Give the view group a … Read entire article »

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Working With MicroStation Views

Working With MicroStation Views

When we do a design in MicroStation, our design can be very large or complex. It will be very useful if we can open several views to see the design from different angle/perspective (for 3D) or simply open different views to show different areas. Imagine you have a very large area. Instead of zooming and panning every time you want to see different area, you can show them in different views. It will be more … Read entire article »

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Modifying MicroStation Elements

Modifying MicroStation Elements

When we draw in MicroStation, we will need to do modifications. Either because we make mistakes or because it is easier and faster to just draw it and modify the drawing later. Here are the tools you can find in modify groups. Modify Element This is the basic modification tool. We only can modify one MicroStation element using this tool. And only verb-noun selection. What this tool do is basically move a vertex point. It … Read entire article »

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Exercise: MicroStation Manipulate Tools

Exercise: MicroStation Manipulate Tools

Nothing hard about using manipulate tools. The only thing you need to do to understand and get used to it is practicing… a lot. So let’s try to do an exercise to get to familiar with it. Download and open manipulate.dgn. Here is what we are going to do: I give you challenge, and you finish it. Try it, and after you’ve done, watch the video. I strongly suggest you to try it first! The challenge Zoom … Read entire article »

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