V8i Advanced - 05 - Annotation (1:43)

Module Overview
When you enable the annotation scale lock and place elements that respect annotation scale, these elements will scale automatically based upon the scale of the model in which they are placed. This module discusses how annotation scale applies to different elements and presents methods for applying and modifying annotation scale. It also presents tools and techniques for annotating designs.

Module Prerequisites

• Knowledge of basic MicroStation commands and procedures
  
• Familiarity with MicroStation's text and dimensioning tools
  
• knowledge about models

Module Objectives
Upon completion of this module you will be able to:

• Apply annotation scale to cells, text or dimensions
  
• Change a model's annotation scale
  
• Alter the annotation scale status of elements
  
• Change the annotation scale of specific elements
  
• Use the text editor to add tabs, indents, symbols and fields
  
• Remap text styles
  
• Use XYZ text tools
  
• Work with dimensions more efficiently

Again, not anything I didn't know already but a good refresher since I've been spending a lot of time in 3D lately, and of course everybody knows that 2D is the future.

Every release and the text editors get more like word processors, which would be great if the users knew anything about word processing software.

Aside, c'mon people, Microsoft Word, text styles are not rocket surgery. Switch on your formatting options and use or if you have to create styles as you progress, at the end of your session, voila, tables of contents, indexes, lists of figures, footnotes, document map, in-document navigation, etc etc etc. Hundreds of reasons why you would use text styles.

Same for drafting in MicroStation, create a style, use that style, create another style, use that style, add your annotation content, then modify the styles to make it look conform to the standards. As far as I have ever been taught, that's the work flow, and it works every time.



Any design file with black space in the ellipse is almost certainly a pretty low quality drawing. It doesn't matter what they are called, as long as annotation is not Style (none).