Hi, I need help very urgently. I have plans that I have to have ready by the end of this month. The original plans was drafted in StopeCAD and now if I open it in Microstation, everything is distorted, from the text to the mine beacons etc. I have to redo every level. There is a lot of text, all ranging from beacon names, elevations, dates etc. I have to give the plan in a plan and section view. I can go to select by attributes, select all the text and the change the size, but when I rotate the screen my text does not rotate with and eventually turns into lines when looking in front view. I want all my text to be changed from the "by origin" method to the "view independent" method so that if I rotate my screen, the text rotates with it. I want to see my text and also my "cells" that I created in both top and front view. Can anyone please assist with this?
Hello,
You could try using the Change Text Attributes tool to change the view dependency of text elements. Select the text in question, then click on the tool, enable the View option and toggle to 'Independent'. Click in the view to accept. See image below showing this...
It sounds like you are in a 3D model, it may be easier to attach the views from the 3D Model to a 2D Sheet and then place the text..
Regards,
Answer Verified By: Roelien Roux
You can select all your text in one go and change view dependant / view independancy in one step from the properties tool options..
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I dont think this can be done I was thinking in 2d as view rotation for text not changing planes ie top to front..view but I dont think the view dependancy thing will work on shapes ie polygons , circles but cells might work I havent checked...
The circles you mentioned pegs in the top view are not 3d elements and have no depth so how do you want them represented in front view?
Maybe you need to use iso view put some arrow notes in the front plane to point to your pegs or id them with text and have that level turned off in top plane only ...
As to fixing your existing imported files can you post and cad example file of what you have and an example of what you want to achieve.. maybe this will prompt some ones brain to work out a method...
also include screen shots of what you have and what you'd like it to look like...
Unknown said:Can the same method be used on shapes?
It doesn't make sense to have a drawing tool that permits view-independent geometry. If you want a 2D object to be visible in a rotated 3D view, then make it into a 3D object.
Unknown said:I have pegs (double circles) that also has to stay visible when rotating from top to front view
Make the peg a sphere rather than a planar circle.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Hi Lorys
I created a Peg cell, I then changed the method to view independent just like the text and it worked, my pegs are visible now in both rotating views. The reason for all this is because I received a DXF file that was created in StopeCAD. We are not using StopeCAD anymore, only Microstation. So now I have to convert all my files to DGN and everything except for lines etc is distorted. All the text and pegs. So I have to restore all our drawing files. If I look at my underground workings from the top view, text and pegs are distorted, too big and on the wrong place. When I rotate to front view, the text and pegs are seen as lines, that is why I want the text and pegs to rotate with the screen,
Just as an added note and to give another possible option:
You can select elements. Convert them into a Group (Ctrl +G). Then Select the Group which will be called a Cell (no name & Graphic type) in the Element Properties dialog. You can change the Cell from a Graphic type Cell to a Point type Cell. Point type Cells are also View Independent.
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