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Learning Path Courses:

  • Ch. 12: Printing and Publishing

    Ch. 12: Printing and Publishing covers producing final output from a design, printing a sheet model using a print composition to PDF, and printing directly from a design model.
  • Ch. 11: Composing Designs and Sheets

    Ch. 11: Composing Designs and Sheets covers composing designs from multiple sources: attaching and controlling references, including nested and activated references, attaching raster images and PDF documents, and building sheet models with borders and print compositions.

  • Ch. 10: Annotating Designs

    Ch. 10: Annotating Designs covers annotating a design with text and dimensions, placing and editing text with different styles, methods, and annotation scale, placing and changing dimensions, and applying and changing area patterns.

  • Ch. 9: Working with Cells

    Ch. 9: Working with Cells covers placing and working with cells, MicroStation's reusable symbol elements, including line terminators, creating new cells, editing existing cells, and replacing cells throughout a design.
  • Ch. 8: Modifying Elements

    Ch. 8: Modifying Elements covers tools for reshaping existing elements, including modify element, inserting and deleting vertices, breaking elements, trimming and extending lines, and constructing fillets and chamfers.

  • Ch. 7: Manipulating Elements

    Ch. 7: Manipulating Elements covers the core element manipulation tools used to arrange and adjust a design: copy, move, move/copy parallel, mirror, rotate, scale, array, and stretch.

  • Ch. 5: Creating Basic Drawing Elements

    Ch. 5: Creating Basic Drawing Elements covers placing core drawing elements, including SmartLines, blocks, circles, and arcs, along with creating complex shapes and chains, dropping elements, and creating regions.
  • Ch. 6: Selecting Elements

    Ch. 6: Selecting Elements covers the different ways to select elements in MicroStation, including the Element Selection tool, working with multiple selected elements, fence selection, and selecting elements by their attributes.
  • Ch. 4: Precision Drawing with AccuDraw and AccuSnap

    Ch. 4: Precision Drawing with AccuDraw and AccuSnap introduces AccuSnap element snapping and additional snap modes alongside AccuDraw, MicroStation's coordinate entry tool, to support fast and accurate drawing.
  • Ch. 3: Controlling the Display of Designs

    Ch. 3: Controlling the Display of Designs covers core view controls such as zoom, fit, window area, and pan, additional mouse-driven view controls, working with multiple view windows, and controlling what's visible through view attributes and level display.
  • Ch. 2: Defining Element Attributes

    Ch. 2: Defining Element Attributes covers setting element attributes with ByLevel symbology, changing and matching attributes between elements, creating filled elements, and applying transparency and display priority.
  • Ch. 1: Using General Tools

    Ch. 1: Using General Tools covers the fundamentals of starting MicroStation and navigating its interface and models, then moves into core drawing tools, undo/redo, saving and compressing design files, creating new files and models, and measuring elements.

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