CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
We are still discussing about MicroStation cell. We already discussed that we can use cells as reusable library. Now we know that we can place the cell. However, there are more that we can do with cells. Look at the cell library dialog box. At the bottom of the dialog, we can see several options, [...]
After you’ve been working with MicroStation cell for a while, I’m sure you will be wondering how to modify the cell on your drawing… and how you can modify the cell in your cell library. Well, I guess the best practice in MicroStation is, you don’t change the cells on your drawings, but you replace [...]
In the last MicroStation tutorial, we have learned how to use MicroStation cell. Cell is a common drawing element that you can use over and over again. In other word: it’s a library. So how to create MicroStation cell? You need to draw your objects before you convert it to a cell. You can use [...]
When we draw, we need to draw same objects repeatedly. It can be a standard objects/parts, annotation, symbol, etc. In the past, when we have to draw manually, we have a transparent paper that contains those symbol. We place it above our paper, scratch it… and voila! We have it on our drawing. MicroStation cell [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
