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| Product(s): | Bentley I/RAS B | ||
| Version(s): | All | ||
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| Original Author: | Bentley Technical Support Group | ||
MicroStation I/RAS B Engineer Functionality's General Workflow
The Engineer Tools, now available in MicroStation I/RAS B, offer a real solution to the challenge of converting existing engineering, manufacturing, and facilities drawings. It streamlines and accelerates the conversion/vectorization process.
Below are the steps involved for a general workflow to take a hard copy of a drawing and produce a file that represents the original data in vector format.
- Select the drawing for your input data.
- Scan the drawing at 200-400 dpi.
- Clean up and prepare the raster file for conversion using I/RAS B.
- Speckle Remove and SAVE
- Hole Fill and SAVE
- Smooth and SAVE
- Apply any other raster modifications
- Convert the raster file using I/RAS Engineer
- Configure viewing environment using View > Preferences > Quick Zoom
- Set Raster Separation and Raster Snap parameters
- Create cell/terminator libraries and symbology sets
- Begin the vectorization process and SAVE periodically
- Plot the drawing (either via MicroStation Plotting or InterPlot) or enter the converted data into the next software application.
See Also
Raster Product TechNotes And FAQs
External Links
Bentley Technical Support KnowledgeBase
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