• RE: Line/SmartLine By Known Angle & Distance

    mlm
    mlm
    AccuDraw is very powerful and helpful - if you get into it you wont want to miss it ever again. But you have to learn it and invest some time. I assume you are working in 2D. With the standard setting of "Context Sensitivity" the AccuDraw "Compass" is…
    • over 9 years ago
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  • How to dimension the angle of an arc

    Maria Garcia
    Maria Garcia
    Applies To Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): 08.09.xx.xx Environment: N/A Area: Dimensions Subarea: Dim Styles Original Author: Maria Munoz, Bentley Technical Support…
    • over 9 years ago
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  • RE: HOW TO ROTATE TEXT OR ELEMENT TO ANOTHER ELEMENT V8I

    Dbl J D
    Dbl J D
    Lorys, I couldn't tell if you got an answer but I found an mvba that I use once I set the Active Angle. I have a button to set the Active Angle 2 Pts, once that is set I select the element or create a selection set. I have another button setup to run…
    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Key-in for Rotate 2-points?

    Darcy Sulz
    Darcy Sulz
    Tom, depending on if you are trying to rotate the view or an element there are a few ways to accomplish this. For Rotate View by 2-points - the Key-in is "rotate view extended". This is the easiest version. It sets your snaps to nearest and gives you…
    • over 1 year ago
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  • RE: Is there any automation step to develop lighting model from cad file?

    Robert Hook
    Robert Hook
    Hi Nagarajan N K , Besides the valid options and responses already provided, here are two more to consider: Use MicroStation's Construct Point Along Element tool providing your Preferred Cell to be placed along a (curved) element. I believe this…
    • over 3 years ago
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  • Cell Selector works in MicroStation SS10, but not PowerDraft SS10

    Robert Golding
    Robert Golding
    We're experiencing a weird issue where the Cell Selector will work fine in MicroStation SS10 (08.11.09.908), but not in PowerDraft SS10 (08.11.09.912). PC's are identical with Windows 10 A Customised Workspace is being used, in which PowerDraft & MicroStation…
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    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: Connect Edition Place Line

    Ged Etherington
    Ged Etherington
    Good Morning Tim, 'Place Line' gives you easy placement of a line at the specified active angle and length, 'Smart Line' does not. This tool has been available for many years with MicroStation, it looks like a defect as mentioned in Carl Myhill's…
    • over 4 years ago
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  • RE: [V8i Ss2] Variable Distance Key-In (Based on Active Scale)

    LaneH
    LaneH
    Glad I could warm your heart Lorys! It certainly is a nifty little snippet. I certainly appreciate you sharing. Not sure if I entirely understand... Unknown said: I drew a scale bar at the edge of the title block and $SCALE$ below it is drawn in…
    • over 8 years ago
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  • Settings>Design File

    Richard Phillips
    Richard Phillips
    This may be simple or hard, most markup I get I normally want to check what the Working Units are set on and the Active Scale. I know how to open and hit w for working or A twice to get to Active Angle or even S and get to snaps. But I was hoping to…
    • over 4 years ago
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    • MicroStation Forum
  • Text being placed Horizontally

    Andrew Bell
    Andrew Bell
    Applies To Product(s): MicroStation Version(s): 08.05.02.35 Environment: N\A Area: Settings Subarea: N\A Original Author: Bentley Technical Support Group …
    • over 6 years ago
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  • RE: upside-down text placement

    Jon Summers
    Jon Summers
    Dominic Martuccio said: What setting needs to be changed to correct this? Check the Active Angle .
    • over 5 years ago
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  • RE: Thanks for the attention. I want to know the command in the script file to rotate a cell before placing it in Microstation.

    Leonard Jones
    Leonard Jones
    As suggested by Andrew, please do follow the " MicroStation Forum Best Practices ". Key-in " aa=90 " (Active Angle) Sample script ac=North; as=5; aa=90; place cell; xy=5,5; RESET Regards, Leonard Jones.
    • over 5 years ago
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  • CellTool for MicroStation CONNECT Edition

    Smrutirekha Mahapatra
    Smrutirekha Mahapatra
    The wait is over!! On request from our users of MicroStation CONNECT Edition, the CELLTOOL has now been ported and is available for download. You can download this application from here . In MicroStation CONNECT Edition, you can access this tool from…
    • over 3 years ago
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  • How to rotate text to make it parallel with another element.

    Andrew Bell
    Andrew Bell
    Applies To Product(s): MICROSTATION Version(s): All Environment: N\A Area: Manipulation Subarea: N\A Original Author: Bentley Technical Support Group …
    • over 6 years ago
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    • MicroStation Wiki
  • RE: How can I convert zero-length line to cell?

    Rod Wing
    Rod Wing
    We have a freeware macro that will do that. It's called Point2Cell. You can download it from here... https://envisioncad.com/freeware/microstation-resources/ I've also attached the basic documentation... PDF
    • over 2 years ago
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  • Settings - MicroStation

    Leonard Jones
    Leonard Jones
    AccuDraw Settings - Display Coordinates Cannot select certain elements in 3D Change multiple elements Locked to Unlocked Changing display priority is not affecting display of elements Define the Key-in window have initial focus How to change…
    • over 5 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Wiki
  • RE: Workspace\preferences\ operation\ check box, "save settings on Exit. Dock some toolbars, snap button bar, and under file hit save settings. Settings do not save, check box unchecked in save settings on Exit. GEOPAK opens across two monitors still...

    MaryB
    MaryB
    Save Settings is for saving drawing file settings, such as active angle, active scale, active level, things like that. It's not designed to save your working preferences. It sounds as if there is a problem with your User Preference File (UPF). That…
    • over 2 years ago
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  • RE: [Connect U2] There seems to be a bug with updating text size of a text element within a cell.

    George A. Martin
    George A. Martin
    Seems that the Range of the one cell needs reset. If you type in Set Range and refresh your view you would see the Range square around the Modified After cell much smaller than the one Created Normal. You can reset the Range limits by selecting the elements…
    • over 6 years ago
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    • MicroStation Forum
  • Placing parametric cells UI

    Luc Dierick
    Luc Dierick
    When placing parametric cells the UI is quite clumsy. No possibility to use on active angle. No possibility to rotate or mirror while placing. I think there is a lot of room for improvement here... Luc Dierick
    • over 6 years ago
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  • RE: Align Elements

    Lorys
    Lorys
    ok found another quick way keyin active angle 2p then follow prompts this will set the active angle by a side of the rotated polygon now just use rotate element tool it will have active angle set use make copy so you can move the rotated element copy…
    • over 9 years ago
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    • MicroStation Forum
  • RE: Share your favourite F key Scripts with Fellow V8i users

    Ian Lapper
    Ian Lapper
    All I have this set.. either as a Fkey or via the customise menu aa=0;as=1;active priority=0; active transparency=0; wt=bylevel;co=bylevel;lc=bylevel; Active Class primary;filedesign I hate it when users set the Active angle, Priority to 500…
    • over 6 years ago
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  • V8i SS4 Dimension Text Orientation Changes after Copying from Reference

    Dale Crawshaw
    Dale Crawshaw
    Dimension text orientation is fine in the reference file but when something is copied using a fence or the selection tool the text orientation goes vertical. Some users see it go to 45 degree. Active Angle is set to 0° in both cases. Nothing stands out…
    • over 5 years ago
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    • MicroStation Forum
  • RE: Rotating Cells in V8i SS3

    Roland
    Roland
    How about setting the active angle in the cell placement tool box. You can also rotate your view and place your cell at 0 degrees, Rotate your view back and it will be at the view rotaton angle. Take a look at Select and Place Cell, Active Angle PT2…
    • over 8 years ago
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  • RE: [V8i] Text Node GCS reprojection

    Barry Bentley
    Barry Bentley
    Remy, This is a bug that affects some text nodes, usually text nodes that were placed with an earlier version of MicroStation. It has been fixed in MicroStation CONNECT, but there is a workaround you can use to get it to work in V8i. You need to rotate…
    • over 7 years ago
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    • MicroStation Forum
  • RE: move/ rotating elements

    George A. Martin
    George A. Martin
    Hi Kieran AA=?? (sets the Active Angle) Choose All (Selects all elements in the file) (Make sure the References are being treated as Elements) Rotate Icon (kicks off the Rotate Element) (verify the Rotate is set to rotate by Active Angle not 2 or…
    • over 9 years ago
    • MicroStation
    • MicroStation Forum
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