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 [...]

  Let’s move further. You can practice more about drawing MicroStation elements by yourself. I suggest you to explore more MicroStation Drawing tools by yourself. If you have understand how to use MicroStation tools, it should be difficult. And don’t hesitate to discuss or ask a question in comment area. In this article, we will [...]

We have discussed how to select multiple elements in MicroStation, to manipulate or modify objects . That is the most common way in many applications. We select words or paragraph before we copy them in Microsoft Word, we select files in explorer before we copy them, and we select cells in Excel before we copy [...]

We’ve already used some MicroStation manipulation tools in earlier exercise. We are going to learn how to select multiple elements before we go further with MicroStation manipulation and modification tools. In that exercise, we only able to manipulate one element at a time. We activate the manipulation tool, then we choose the element. No way [...]

Text Field MicroStation Field is used to show element, model, or file properties. You can show any properties that your objects have. The common use of field is in title block. Field will automatically show when the file is plotted, who save it, file name, et cetera. You don’t need to manually edit your fields [...]

We have discussed about using the text tools in MicroStation. There are more text tools we can use for annotation. We will discuss it in this section. Place Note Place note will place a text and a leader arrow. Similar to place text, activating this tool will open the word processor. Type the text in [...]

An engineering drawing always has text. In this section we will discuss about placing and editing text, changing the text attribute, and understanding text style. Here are the text tool you can find in text tools group. Placing and Editing Text Placing Text You can place text by activating place text tool. After you activate [...]

We tried to draw several times before. But until now, we only use linear elements. Now we are going to discuss circles and polygons. I don’t usually write details on how using a specific tool. I usually write concept and ‘how to’ tutorial. But i already wrote this tutorial as a book before (in Indonesian). [...]