In the MicroStation V8i (SelectSeries 1) release, you have a new model type called the Drawing model. Many of us are curious to know why this model type is added, what are its features, how is it different from other model types and so on? In this blog I will try to answer these questions.

Technically speaking, Drawing models are same as 2D Design models. Internally, there is an additional flag to designate them…

                "Level Display" dialog in MicroStation is used to turn on and turn off levels in a model. This dialog contains the display control options (on/off switches): View Display, Global Display and Global Freeze as shown in below image. There is one more option: Viewport Freeze, accessible through keyin.

                Turning on or off View Display, Global Display, Global Freeze (for DGN files), or Viewport Freeze (for DWG files…

                In this discussion you will understand how you can make use of different functionalities available in Microstation to handle and organize resources.

                Consider yourself working on a large project and the models, saved views and other resources pertaining to that project are distributed in different files and folders in your project. You also have created links to all the pertinent files and resources into the…

                A saved view is a view definition, which includes the level display for the active model and references, the clip volume, and other view attributes. It is saved with a unique name.

                A DGNLib saved view is a saved view that is shared across multiple files of a project and among multiple users. These DGNLib saved views are used as standards by members of a workgroup.

                Each DGNLib saved view has a unique name…

                We have been asked several times why some elements/annotations in active model are not visible or hide behind some reference elements. I think this blog will help you understand this.

                In case of overlapping elements, what you see depends on what draws last. You come across these overlapping elements situation mostly while working with Drawing/Sheet models. You place several annotations on these models to get your final…