Keeps snapping to a points I don't want issue

got it. It is snapping to the center of my block, which is my Sheet view area. Keep forgetting it snaps to center of blocks.

Chris LeMay said:

It is snapping to the center of my block

FYI

In Microstation its called a CELL not a block, in MicroStation a Block is like a  lump of stone  ie a Stone block... but you can use a generic term like titleblock

Chris LeMay said:

lol...you seem so mad at me for saying that.

Not at all far from it, but other newbies search here looking for similar answers to problems so terminology is very important...ie if they do  search they wont find what they need because we used and acad term,  but yes the place block is correct term but as your exacader I made the bad assumption you meant  a cell for your title block as your  picture was very hard to see my bad...

Continuing  on from your post

Now if you have a closed shape  and you want to make  like acad solid hatch, its  called a  fill in Mstn, now every closed object  ( not line strings) like polygons etc have attributes right?  Like colour , weight, line type , level right? Well they have one more Fill on or  Fill off.. there are many  ways to turn it on but in my mind the easiest is  use the Right Mouse Button Menu ( RMB) and  select  properties then you will see  entry  fill  none click in here and you get this and at the bottom you see tick against no fill the default , untick and  click on a colour you want  and you will now have  that as  fill, now if you  properties again you can even change the outline colour and the fill to be the same or different  without creating any  extra shape or elements.. 

So you can select all the shapes on the same  level and measure area get the total true area.. when I do this in acad I get the fill area too so I get double the area... not if you cant see the  fill  hit control B and see  if fill is enabled in your view settings...

if your shape is already a closed shape   you dont need to use the flood ( unless you want a donut ie toroid) just  turn the fill attribute for the shape on...

if your shape is made of 4 separate lines to look like a closed shape then use the create region and  flood to create a closed shape.. try doing a test  file with all the different  options especially  shapes inside , text inside and keep original as options  you'll be a master  of this in a few go's and this tool is totally awesome I use it all the time .. 1 draw back  it can only  handle 8000 verticies  which can be a problem in maps with rivers and coastlines or boundaries that come from imported other packages like GIS...

PM me as I'm sure I'll be able to pick your acad brains ( before you loose them haha)  as I'm not very good at acad as I use it so infrequently...  and I'd be delighted to share extra tips and scripts for microstation off line...

Lorys is right - we don't even have to pattern closed shapes. In MicroStation, "Fill" is an element property, and all we need to do is turn it on. SO much easier here!

I love the fill. But some of these details that were drawn and designed with horrible practice are drawn with regular lines and there are tons of areas that need the fill applied that aren't shapes. So I was just using the Create Region Flood option. I'm new guys to MicroStation. I'm learning. Go easy on me...lol

Create region (flood) works great. Then you can either fill the element, pattern the element...

If your area is complicated, you can pre-select the elements you want to use for your flood boundaries.

You can also look in the Help for information about "displayset". It's the SS4 version of "hide" in a way.

To add to Mary's suggestion, if the data you want to fill has a lot of other data crossing it.  I use the selection tool to highlight what I want, then right click and hold and activate the displayset tool.  this gives me a clearer picture for using the Create region tool.

Ian 

To add to Mary's suggestion, if the data you want to fill has a lot of other data crossing it.  I use the selection tool to highlight what I want, then right click and hold and activate the displayset tool.  this gives me a clearer picture for using the Create region tool.

Ian