MicroStation Tutorial

MicroStation Level and Level Attributes

March 12th, 2010 | Add a Comment

MicroStation levels are used to separate and distinguish your drawing objects. When the drawing become complex, you will need to control the object appearances. You will need to show them in different colors, different line weight, and different line style… or you may need to show/hide objects in a certain category. You can use levels and their attributes for this purpose. You can group object in the same category in a level. This is probably has … Read entire article »

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Exercise: Working with MicroStation Views

February 25th, 2010 | Add a Comment

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

February 16th, 2010 | Add a Comment

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

February 2nd, 2010 | Add a Comment

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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