MicroStation Design Course: Tools, Elements, Views, and Precision Input

1. Module 1

2. Course Objectives When You complete this course you will be able to: • Use the Various MicroStation Interface Tools. • Create Design Files. • Create and Delete Design Elements. • Work with Views. • Work with Levels. • Use Precision Input. • Perform Measurement Operations.

3. Course Objectives (Continued) • Change Element Attributes. • Manipulate Elements. • Modify Elements. • Work with Multiple Elements. • Understand and Use the Various Snap Modes. • Place and Manipulate Text. • Create and Place Cells.

4. Course Objectives (Continued) • Create and Drop Complex Elements • Place Active Points. • Pattern. • Dimension. • Attach and Manipulate Reference Files. • Plot.

5. Module 2

6. Objectives: Getting Started • Use the Available Input Devices. • Start the MicroStation Product. • Use the MicroStation Manager to Create and Load Design Files. • Identify and Use the Parts of the MicroStation Screen. • Use Palettes and Sub-palettes. • Use the MicroStation Help Utility.

7. MicroStation Manager Interface Title Bar Menu Bar

8. MicroStation Manager File Menu

9. MicroStation Manager DirectoryMenu

10. Opening a Design File

11. Creating a New Design File

12. New File Manager

13. Seed File

14. The MicroStation Screen

15. Dialog Box List Box Active Command Button Pull Down Box Command Button

16. Settings Box Check Button Data Entry Box

17. Views Title Bar Control Menu Icon Minimize Maximize Resize Handle Resize Handle

18. Module 3

19. Objectives: Design File Concepts • Explain the Concept of a Design Plane. • Describe the Concepts and Differences between Views and Levels. • Set Up Working Units. • Establish Element Attributes. • Create and Delete Simple Design Elements. • Properly Save and Exit a Design File.

20. Design Plane Levels Side View Top View

21. Views

22. Working Units Default Settings After Modifications

23. Element Attributes • The attributes of an element determine how that element will look. • Element attributes include the element color, style, weight, and class. • By default, the color, style, and weight all have a value of zero and the class is primary. • Any elements that you create will be drawn in white, solid, thin lines.

24. Element Attributes Settings Box • Two blocks are shown in the illustration below. • One block was drawn when the active style, weight, and color was set to a value of 0. • The other block was drawn after the style was set to 1, the active weight to 3, and the active color to 4. • To change the active attributes, activate the Design File Settings Box and select Element Attributes. • The Element Attributes Settings box will display as shown in the illustration above. LC=0 WT=0 CO=0 LC=1 WT=3 CO=4

25. The Place Line Tool • From the Main palette, select the Place Line tool. • Place a data point to define the start of the line. • Place a second data point to define the end of the line. Subsequent data points continue to place connected lines. • Reset to finish the process, or start a new line not connected to the previous one. 2 1

26. The Delete Tool • From the Main palette, select the Delete tool and Identify the element to be deleted by placing a data point [1] anywhere on the element. The element will highlight. • Accept the element to be deleted with a data point. [2] The element is erased from the screen. • If this data point is on another element, that element will be identified for deletion, and must be accepted or rejected. 1 2

27. Terminating a Design Session These exit methods vary depending on the the amount of information that you decide to save. When exiting, the following steps are highly recommended. • Compress the design file. • Save the settings. • Backup the design file. • Exit the design file and/or MicroStation.

28. Save Design As Dialog Box

29. Preferences

30. Module 4

31. Objectives: Precision Input • Understand the Concept of Global Origin. • Create Elements of an Exact Size. • Specify the Location for New Elements. • Place New Elements at a Specified Offset from Existing Elements.

32. The Global Origin -X,Y X,Y -X,-Y X,-Y

33. Precision Key-ins • xy=x coordinate,y coordinate [ | times repeated] • dx=delta x,delta y [ | times repeated] • dl=delta x,delta y [ | times repeated] • di=distance, direction (angle) [ | times repeated]

34. Module 5

35. Objectives: Views • Open and Close Any of the Eight Available Views. • Arrange Views on the Screen. • Use the View Control Tools to Change the Focus of Each View. • Understand the View Attributes Settings Box. • Save View Settings and Recall Them in Other Views.

36. Displaying Views Select the View Open/Close from the command window to display this dialog box.

37. View Control Palette • The View Control Palette contains controls that can be used to change the displays of views. Zoom In Update View • The following palettes show each of the controls selected from the View Control Palette. Window Area Fit Active Design Zoom Out

38. View Attributes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

39. Fast Curve View Attributes Fast Curve Off Fast Curve On

40. Saved Views Settings Box

41. Module 5

42. Objectives: Working with Levels • Define the Active Level. • Turn Level Display On and Off in Specified Views. • Use the Level Lock Feature.

43. Level Features

44. The Display Level Settings Box • In each dialog box the green level represents the active level. The active level cannot be off • All levels are off except the active level. • All levels are on for all views

45. The Display Level Manager

46. The Level Lock Feature

47. Module 6

48. Objectives: Element Creation • Set the Active Angle and Active Scale. • Create Lines and Linestrings. • Create Blocks and Ploygons. • Create Circles and Ellipses. • Create and Modify Arcs. • Create Curves. • Undo Commands. • Redo Commands. • Set Marks in Your Design File’s Undo Buffer.

49. Tool Settings • The dash in the lower right corner indicates additional settings. • These settings affect the way the corresponding element will be drawn.

50. General Settings • The active scale factors are applied when you place cells with the Place Active Cell tool or scaling elements with the Scale tool. • The active angle is the angle that is used in tools that require an angle specification. • These tools are the Place Line, the Place Active Cell, the Place Text, and the Construct Active Array. AS=10 AA=10^20’00”