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MicroStation Tip
Got an email from my friend Marvin recently I thought I would share . . .
Hi Mark,
No rush on this one, just whenever you get a free moment. To try to find this answer,
I read the help M'stn help files, and went to the Google M'stn group, but they yielded
such cumbersome solutions that I felt I must be missing something. In AutoCAD, if you
want to save a dimension style, it's so easy. According to what I could find, the only
way to do it in M'stn is to involve the 'settings manager'? I could not readily see how
to do it. If it's that detailed, it would be far easier for me to create a cell of the
dimension style I want, and just insert it into whatever Dwg I needed it. Can you tell
me if I am just not getting it?
Thanks,
Marvin
And my reponse . . .
Hi Marvin,
Yes. Settings manager is used to do this. I believe if you set your dimensions the way
you want them and then do Save Settings that they will be the same next time you work on
the drawing. If you have multilple dimension styles then you will have to use settings
manager. It's not really that hard.
1) Set the dimension settings the way you want - these are the active settings.
2) Open Settings > Manage. Right click on this dialog and selectOptions>Large Dialog.
3) Hilite the dimension styles item in the top list box and then chooseFile>Edit. This
opens the edit box.
4)Chooseedit>create>dimension on this dialog. This adds a new component to the bottom
list on this dialog. Change the name by hiliting the new item called Unnamed and then in
the bottom text box type a new name. Type enter to accept this new name.
5) On the edit dialog go toStyle>Dimension (pull down). This opens the Edit Dimension
Styles Dialog. Click the Get Active button. Change the name of the new dimension dim0 and
its description dim0.
6) Close the edit dimension styles dialog and go to the edit settings dialog. Click on
the new dimension component you made in step 4. ChooseEdit>Modify from the edit settings dialog's
pull down menu.
7) The modify dialog opens - there is a section on this dialog called Dimension Settings.
Click the button called Select. Find the dimension style you saved in step 5. Hilite it and
click ok.
That's it. Now you can use the Select Settings dialog to choose the dimension style you want.
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