CAD/BIM Tips & Tricks

Leverage cells is to place them as “annotation cells” in models that will be referenced to sheets that have different annotation scales.

A common task for surveyors, civil engineers and GIS professionals is recreating a property boundary from a plat.

Use tentative point snaps to quickly measure distances between elements in your design files.

Here is an easy way to trim several elements very quickly using the MicroStation Trim Element command along with the PowerSelector tool.

Translation Manager has for many years helped MicroStation users get translations between DGN and DWG done right the first time.

RefManager has been the MicroStation user’s go-to tool for reporting on and modifying multiple reference attachments in multiple sheet files.

Here is how to create a MicroStation cell library from an AutoCAD block library.

Create a cell library notebook in PDF format resulting in ease of distribution and increased speed in finding the cells you need on any project.

Paste perfectly-formatted, huge spreadsheets into drawing files with correctly sized columns on the fly.