Annotation Scale is a tool to scale your annotations like text and dimensions in order to display them at correct size on sheets. It is a special scale that affects only annotations, a powerful tool that provides you the capability of changing annotation sizes as necessary. Annotation scale can be used to ensure readability of annotations on sheets of any scale. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as sheet scale…

                In this discussion you will learn a very handy and important use of Links. Let's take a real scenario, suppose you are working on a big project and the specification of a particular part of the model is taken from a different model or stored in a XML file. If multiple people are working on that project and you don't know where the files are located but you want to make sure that the data is consistent as per CAD/Company…

                In this blog you will be familiarizing yourself with the different modes of linksets in Project Explorer and concepts related to Harvesting.
                The modes in PE actually refer to the source of linksets, the DGN files from where you actually read the linksets. These are the linksets that you can see in the Manage Linksets dialog. You have three options to select the source:

1.  Active File:
- If you…

What is a Sheet Model?

                A type of model that serves as an electronic drawing sheet. It typically consists of design model references that are scaled and positioned to create a printable drawing. By default, the view windows of a sheet model have white backgrounds.
                 When you create a new sheet model, you see a rectangle with grey background; this is called as "Sheet Boundary". You can associate a sheet border attachment…

                Sometimes we need to change the orientation of a reference attachment on a sheet, may be from one floor plan to another or from east elevation to north elevation. The traditional method is to delete that attachment and manually attach a new one. MicroStation V8i introduces a quick tool to seamlessly swap the orientation of an attachment.
                 In Figure 1, Look at the new column in the References dialog, titled Orientation…