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Text Justification sets the position of text relative to its origin. MicroStation supports all justification types for both single-line and multi-line text. Text Justification is used only for text whereas Text Node Justification is used only for Text…

The Geospatial Administrator provides the ability to round up or down the display of property values defined as numbers. For example, diameters might be stored with four decimals, but you might want to display annotation with only two decimals. This rounding…

Interactive geospatial schema editing is done with the Geospatial Administrator (geospatialadmin.exe). This executable is found in ...\MapEnterprise\bin installation folder, and when run from a command line, it can be used to open specified schemas: …

To create multi-line text for PBA annotation use \010 to insert a new line or carriage return: For example: Valve Number \010 [ValveID] wi ll produce the following:

The following article has been updated for OpenCities Map CONNECT Edition and discusses the Print Preparation configuration. MS_GEOPRINTPREP_DGNLIBLIST - Print template libraries can be created by copying one of the sample DGNLibs located by the variable…

Note: This article is specific to Bentley Map V8i. Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 4) doesn't appear to honor the Use color table preference for references. This can be resolved by adding the following variable to your UCF: MS_REFCOLORTABLE = 1 …

Custom coordinate systems are stored in DTY file(s) which need to be specified by the configuration variable MS_GEOCOORDINATE_USERLIBRARIES In the UCF or other location, define MS_GEOCOORDINATE_USERLIBRARIES = "library[Name]" Where 'library' specifies…

Create a design file and attach a geographic coordinate system. This ensures that the imported graphics will be drawn in the correct space. In this example the Excel file contains location and property information for wells: ID, BOOK, OPERATOR, STATUS…

Reference Summary Description Keyword(s) 679007 Data streaming performance is improved with the Map Manager active Map Manager 718753 Fixed a problem where graphics where missing when attempting to display Bentley Map Mobile redline…

Background: OpenCities Map automatically creates geometric properties for recognized features. These properties are read-only and are described as Geometry_Perimeter , Geometry_Area , and Geometry_Length . Queried spatial features are also assigned…

To add a hole or island to an existing polygon collection feature, use the Place command with Add to Existing Collection enabled. Then just read the prompts. Notice that the Geometry_Area and Geometry_Perimeter will update to reflect the changes to…

The Geospatial Administrator does not provide options for customizing the Command Manager. For example, the following are the results of running the Update Command Manager List tool. Note that the Place and Promote entries are placed in the same category…

Buffer tolerance is used to calculate the edge smoothness of buffers. Smaller tolerance values will produce rounder edges while larger values will create visible segments. Buffer tolerance of 0.01: Buffer tolerance of 0.5:

Spatial Filter can be used to buffer the feature instances within a specified spatial extent. In Map Manager, right-click on the Layer name and select the Buffer item. The Create Buffer dialog Opens. Click on the Spatial Filter tab to limit the spatial…

The following is an example of using UpdatedBy and UpdatedDate properties to capture the current Windows user and current date. Here the UpdatedBy is defined as a textbox and UpdatedDate is defined as a date. In addition to enabling the…

The Graphical Courses Reference File Index node is designed to scan design files, not raster files (images). To create a Reference File Index of images, create a new design file and attach the images via Raster Manager. From there, up to you…

The following article discusses how to define a polygon feature that supports holes. Storing MicroStation polygons with holes using the XML Feature Modeling (XFM) data model, requires the definition of a Polygon Collection . This requirement is…

In this example, existing polygon features have a Name and Date Changed property. When the Name is edited, the Date Changed property will automatically update to the current date. To do that, you need to define a Property Watcher on the Name field…

Reference Summary Description Keyword(s) 414744 The order of the text in the Edit Text Place holder Values dialog is not correct. Print Preparation 417365 Create an associative region element by using the MicroStation tools results…

Product(s): StormCAD, SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, CivilStorm, WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, HAMMER Version(s): 08.11.05.58+ (storm/sewer), 10.00.XX.XX Area: Layout and Data Input Problem Can Bentley Map files be used as a source file in…