CAD Tutorials and Best Practices for professionals and students
We already discussed several annotation tools. This is the last one. Another ‘must have’ annotation element in a drawing is pattern. Pattern is used to show object materials, show section area, and some other purposes. In MicroStation, we have the types of patterns: hatch area, crosshatch area, and pattern area. Hatch and crosshatch are used [...]
If you need to create isometric drawing in MicroStation, you are probably wondering how to do it easily. We are not talking about drawing the isometric in 3D model, but isometric diagram in 2D DGN. Open your MicroStation. Try to find the lock symbol in status bar, and click it. It is the active lock [...]
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 [...]
