Hypermodeling - Instructions for Use

simple instructions:

1. place a callout symbol on a drawing document or in a 3D model.  Name the callout, in the subsequent dialog box.

2. Drag and drop the named callout from the project explorer list onto a drawing document to express the drawing (to display that view of the project model on the document).

3. Add drawing detail as required along with notes, dimensions and any other vector or raster embellishments as desired, to the document.

4. the rest is automatic.  All navigation as shown in the demonstration video (new video posted, for public use, and a blog article: Hypermodeling), and the display on-demand of all document graphics in 3D, in-place, in context, is automatic.

detailed comments:

1. Requires MicroStation V8i SELECTseries3.

2. The callouts can be placed in 2D or in 3D.  Either way, they automatically show up in the other (turn on the new "markers" view attribute.  Markers can be converted to callouts (single, all or interesecting, both from the marker minitoolbar, and on a drawing from the drawing title minitoolbar.

When you place a callout on drawing or sheet (against a DV plan for example) the callout automatically detects the target composition model (you no longer have to select the target).  You simply need to give the callout a name in the dialog (you can ignore create drawing and sheet if you want).

Then from the Project Explorer, drag that callout onto another sheet.

Example of workflow: place a callout on a plan, for example; that callout shows up in the project explorer; from the project explorer list, drag and drop onto a sheet to produce the dynamic view of that callout, the section for example; Then add any graphics required onto the drawing or sheet (notes, dimensions, additional vectors..)

If you simply do that, then the Model Documentation functions shown in the videos is completely automatic.  Just turn on the marker view attribute in your composition model (3D).  All the callouts placed on all the sheets and drawings (and in any child 3D references) appear as markers in 3D (and can be converted to callouts if desired).

Touch the callout or marker in 3D and choose the first button in the minitoolbar.  This automatically clips the model at the location of the callout, resymbolizes the model according to the DV rules (including part defined graphics and unification) AND it automatically displays in 3D on the plane of the callout all of the additional sheet and drawing graphics you added to the drawing and or sheet for that callout.

Click the next callout to see the next called out location.

Note that the contextualized sheet/drawing graphics displayed in 3D are clipped.  The clipping boundary used for that is the drawing title clipping boundary.  (Go to the sheet and touch the drawing title to see the boundary - adjust its handles as needed).

Also note that the clip volume (that clips the 3D model) for each callout is displayed by mousing over the callout or marker, and if you hit the minitoolbar button to convert the marker to a callout, then you can select the callout (use the selection tool). When you select the callout, the clip volume boundary handles can be adjusted.

You can also right click on the callout and go to saved view information/properties. This gives you a panel to edit all the properties of that view (including which display styles are used).

Also please note that the first button on the minitoolbar of a callout/marker has some drop down settings.  I recommend turning full plane on (or turn it off if you want side clipping - side clips are now DV-enabled too; so if you turn off full plane, then the applied clip volume side clips at the start and end of the callout)

I also recommend that you turn the view attributes setting under apply callout on the minitoolbar OFF.  You want to move from callout to callout without view attributes changing, usually.

Also, I recommend turning off the camera button in the minitoolbar apply settings (turn the camera button off to allow you to view many callouts from a single vantage point, as shown in the videos, otherwise if the camera setting is on, then applying a callout also orients the view angle to the direction normal to the primary clip face of the callout's clip volume >> it is disorienting when trying to inspect a series of different callouts contextually if each one in sequence goes directly to its normal view angle)

We'll produce formal documentation, help, tutorial videos and such, but this is a decent summary.

The result is that all of your project documentation is displayed contextualized in 3D, at your control, automatically so that both the drawings and the model are easier to understand and interpret (they are mutually contextualized, automatically).

You can SEE where the drawings are and what they mean.  And you can tell which locations in the model have been documented and therefore you know which locations in 3D can be relied upon when viewed/inspected.