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In this tutorial we will demonstrate one workflow to create a photo simulation using MicroStation.
Below are some items to consider before you take your first photo. Ranked in order from “most important” to “still important.”

Know the location where the photo was taken within a 5′ diameter, including elevation, and eye height from the ground.
Make sure [...]

Here are solutions to a couple of the most common issues we hear about.
Key-ins: (watch your prompt & message fields)
AZ=? will display your ‘active depth’ (the elevation data points will assume when drawing elements).
AZ=800.12 will set your active depth (the elevation you want to draw at).
DP=? will display the ‘vertical slice’ you are [...]

When placing text in a plan sheet it is preferred that there is no line work or graphics behind the text. Having the graphics behind the text makes it difficult to read. MicroStation Text Styles allow for a background to be placed around the text to make it appear as the text is [...]

In this tutorial we will show you the new procedure in MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries) to control the display order of elements in a 3D design file. The default method is set to the elevation of the element. With a simple edit to a Display Style the legacy draw order could also be used.

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to drape an image onto a triangle or mesh surface.

In a previous tip we demonstrated how to obtain geographic coordinate readouts in MicroStation V8i and later releases. It is also possible to enter coordinate values in Longitude, Latitude units. When a geographic coordinate system is selected using the Geographic tool box MicroStation automatically creates an Auxiliary Coordinate System based on the selected geographic coordinate [...]

The ability to render realistic grass has been included in the (SELECTseries 2) release of MicroStation. Below are the steps and a couple tips on working with the data.

Open the Material Editor dialog.
From the Material Editor dialog drop down menu Settings > Advanced
Load the Landscape.pal [Bentley_Materials.dgnlib] palette.
Select a grass lawn material from the list.
Click [...]

The ability to reference Point Cloud data has been included in the (SELECTseries 2) release of MicroStation. It is as easy as attaching any reference file in MicroStation. Below are the steps and a couple tips on working with the data.

From the MicroStation pull down menu select File > Point Clouds. The [...]

If the text in the word processor dialog is too small or jagged try increasing the display size with this key-in.
“wordprocessor displayfontsize x” where x is the size

In the above screen capture the key-in “wordprocessor displayfontsize 20“ was used to increase the font display size.

In MicroStation V8i and later releases that support geographic coordinate systems there are key-in commands available to manage coordinate system definitions.
geocoordinate assign <gcsname>
Assigns a geographic coordinate system to the active model.
geocoordinate assign reproject <gcsname>
Reprojects design file graphics in the active model from the current geographic coordinate system to a new geographic coordinate system.
geocoordinate delete
Deletes the [...]