OpenRoads Designer Tip: Text Field Background If you’ve opened up a DGN in OpenRoads Designer containing civil content that has been automatically annotated, you may have noticed a gray background…
MicroStation Tip: XYZ Text Delivered with MicroStation is a toolbar that will label coordinates in the file and import/export coordinates. From the MicroStation pulldown menu select…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Converting Civil 3D Parcels to GIS Shapefiles Written by: Bryan Sullivan Here is a workflow for translating parcels with associated attributes, such as parcel number and parcel area; into shapefiles for…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Reproject Aerial Images Using Map Task Pane Written by: Ben Johnson Say you are working on a project in a county coordinate system, but you only have access to an aerial image in UTM. You will…
InRoads Tip: Place Coordinate Grid Written by Bob Mecham. Use the Place Coordinate Grid tool in InRoads to layout simple grid lines or points. 1. Place either a MicroStation Shape or Fence in…
MicroStation Tip: V8i SS3 with Google Earth and Map Written by Bob Mecham. In this tutorial we will assign a coordinate system to a MicroStation DGN file and then export the file to a Google Earth KML file.…
Reference AutoCAD to MicroStation and coordinates do not match Written by Bob Mecham. We have taken this support call twice in the last month so I thought I would share a solution with everyone in case you have the… Read…
Longitude, Latitude Coordinate Input 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…
Geographic Keyins In MicroStation V8i and later releases that support geographic coordinate systems there are key-in commands available to manage coordinate system definitions.…
Longitude, Latitude Coordinate Readout In MicroStation V8i and later releases that support geographic coordinate systems it is possible to obtain Longitude, Latitude coordinates from a design file.…
