How to become king of Gingerbread Houses
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use your CAD skills at home? Particularly if it will make your family happy. A nice tradition this time of year is to make your own gingerbread house. To make a good looking…
Skip project dialog in SS4
The latest MicroStation V8i version SS4 has added support for the same type of connected projects that are used in MicroStation CONNECT. This means that at startup you will be asked to select a connected project. Thsi will quickly become quite…
Snap to an extended intersection
Time for a new trick to make drawing in MicroStation easier. In this example I would like to show how to snap to the extended intersection between two lines. Intersection snap makes it possible to snap to the intersection of…
GIS in MicroStation
Very often I get questions from people working with GIS and mapping if it possible to do one thing or another using MicroStation. Since the people asking are GIS-people the answer will often be “you need Bentley Map to do that”.…
10 ways to modify an element
Sometimes you have to look around for a while to find settings and features in MicroStation. This is especially true for the command Modify Element. Modify Element is the general command to modify most types of elements. At a first glance this command…
Insert new Dimension
I looked around in some old documents and found something a forgot (I’m getting old!). You can insert and delete measures from an existing dimension using Insert Vertex och Delete Vertex. The example shows and existing dimension chain. By using Insert Vertex (which normally is used…
MicroStation CONNECT and Display Rules
Det är dags att börja titta närmare på den kommande versionen av MicroStation! I samband med utvecklingen av FDO Reader (läs mer om den här) har jag börjat titta på vad det finns för nyheter i MicroStation CONNECT. En av de saker jag…
Create multiple layers when rendering
MicroStation has a really great rendering engine but sometimes the resulting images could need a little tweeking. The tip of today is: Create multiple layers when you render an image! If you select Render Settings from the render dialog it is possible…
Lock AccuDraw to fixed angles
It is great to do MicroStation training! When participants are used to other CAD software there are always the question “How do I do this in MicroStation?” This sometimes reminds you off features you have forgotten or simply missed because you are used doing things in…