RE: Working with clip volume and sections - Setting the front view and the others

JeremieDL — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:39:40 GMT

It's exaclty what I was looking for! This tool was realy missing in my toolbox. Thanks!

RE: Working with clip volume and sections - Setting the front view and the others

John Melbert — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:32:35 GMT

Hello Jeremie!

There certainly is a way! Use the Auxiliary Coordinate Systems dialog to create the different UCS’s based of your building faces. You can get to the dialog either from the Primary toolbar or the Utilities menu. I would suggest checking out MicroStation’s HELP to learn more about the tools and techniques.

When you’re ready to start creating ACS’s, the first one to create should be the Global ACS. That is when the Origin X and Y both have the value of 0. That way you can quickly revert back to this. Then, from there, create the necessary ACS’s based of the building faces (front elev., side elevs. etc.).

One last thing to mention – open the Drawing Scale window (Settings menu). In the third section of this, click the icon to “Lock Auxiliary Coordinate System”. When this is enabled, your standard views (front, left, right, etc.) will be relative to the active ACS and not that of the view. It’s pretty cool!

I hope this helps!

John Melbert