Thank you for your questions Rajendra. These are age-old issues encountered where GIS meets Cartography. For simple Mapping and GIS needs, try to limit the amount of points, segments, and detail when you place the features. Take care to design your Features…

Map Manager contains most of what you need. The topic in the Map Contents Help instructions is Map Management The Export topic explains how to convert Map Features to MicroStation elements. The Labeling option, once used, adds the Annotation menu…

...in the "Map Manager" select multiple map layers (using the control key selection method) that have existing labeling, then right click "Annotation..." and choose the destination model and you should be able to create annotations from multiple layers…

Hi All, I am still stuck on this problem. I have an Oracle database and the latest Bentley Map V8i and still I can't find an option to automatically label the features from the Oracle Spatial database. Have I missed something? I also found…

Greetings, After reviewing your SQL script, it appears that you may have omitted the primary key definition for the annotation table which would have prevented the table being "discovered" during the "Register Features" process in the Bentley Geospatial…

Veeresh, First regarding the use of composite primary keys for annotation, you're correct that capability used to work. However when the ability to support arbitrary-depth features in Bentley Map was added for Oracle Spatial persistence, subfeatures…

Jun, We are planning to release Bentley Map V8 i SU1 (SELECT Update 1) at the end of Q2 this summer which is scheduled to include: Labeling and Annotation Support Join Support (e.g. XFM > XFM, XFM > RDBMS, XFM > Oracle Spatial etc…

...to confirm, new "Labeling" and "Annotation" functionalities will be included in the Bentley Map V8 i (SELECTseries 1) release planned for Q3 2009 release. Regards, Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]