Home  »  Archives

Miscellaneous Tips

Your Mouse and View Control

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:40 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips, Mouse Tips | viewed 14,895 times | 2 Comments

In this tip, you will learn how to change the view control settings associated with your mouse’s wheel. This tip assumes two things: 1) you are using MicroStation V8 and 2) your mouse has a wheel. First, go to Workspace... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:

DGN drawing to Powerpoint or Word

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:16 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 10,630 times | 2 Comments

Mel Arquiza – Ch2M/PB JV Pte. Ltd. Have anyone of you try to put the DGN drawing into a powerpoint or word document? Instead of doing MDL load Oleserve, Oleserve viewcopy process? By using the plotdriver “jpeg.plt” or “emf.plf” file... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:         

Unsure if DGN files in your folder are V8 or Microstation J?

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:14 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 3,459 times | 0 Comments

From Eric Bridwell – BWSC In V8 Microstation Manager, before opening a dgn file, the ‘Show File Icons’ can be selected to show which Dgn files are V8 and those that are Microstation J. V8 files will have V8 Icon.... (Continue reading)

Tagged with:         

Immunize Your MicroStation Files

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:13 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 5,126 times | 0 Comments

To ensure that your MicroStation files are immunized after every modification, Axiom incorporated a feature called AutoCheck. AutoCheck automatically searches and immunizes a design file when the user closes it in MicroStation. To activate AutoCheck simply; Go to MicroStation’s Workspace... (Continue reading)

Controlling file translations between MicroStation V8 2004 and AutoCAD: the basic settings.

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:12 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 8,101 times | 1 Comment

MicroStation V8 2004 has certainly made dealing with AutoCAD files much less complex than it used to be. However, there are still some important things to understand in order achieve the results you expect when translating files between the two... (Continue reading)

Multi-line joints

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:10 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 9,826 times | 0 Comments

This month, we are going to learn about the “Multi-line Joints” tool box. Joints are simply intersections of multi-lines. Multi-lines are sets of two or more parallel lines treated as a single object, commonly used for drawing walls in floor... (Continue reading)

Survey Foot versus International Foot: What’s the difference?

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:09 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 19,359 times | 1 Comment

In a recent thread on the Bentley newsgroups, we came across some confusion about the differences between an International Foot and a U.S. Survey Foot. We thought it would be fun to shed some light on what these “feet” are... (Continue reading)

The Foot Controversy and the State Plane Coordinate System

Written on 7 Apr, 2009 at 15:08 in MicroStation Tips, Miscellaneous Tips | viewed 7,154 times | 0 Comments

Many of our readers provided more specific feedback regarding our March tip on the difference between the International Foot and the Survey Foot. Click here to see the original article. Below are two letters to the editor that provide some... (Continue reading)