MicroStation Basics for Building Designers - Chapter 9: Composing Sheets

As you move into Sheeting Composition stage, a pain that you may encounter is that laying out drawings onto sheets is a time-consuming and error-prone process that is done differently by everyone on a team and can cause inconsistencies and delays in getting projects delivered.

Fortunately, with the new innovations found in MicroStation’s CONNECT edition’s Documentation Center, the solution is the Accelerated Sheet Creation and Layout. Here you can create multiple sheets in a single operation. The Automated layout can be based on scale, location & along path. Once generated, the Sheet layouts can be modified for fine adjustments.

This video series will help you do this!

https://youtu.be/aEAK998MUxw

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A sheet index is a centralized and structured collection of sheets in your project. You may link any sheet model from any design file of your project into a sheet index. At this point in the project, you have several sheets in some sort of state of completion.

Part 1 The Sheet Index In this video, you will add these sheets to their respective folders within the sheet index.

https://youtu.be/Y0YJaI-SFqo

At this point in the project, you are far enough into the design composition of the proposed building where you are into the View Composition stage. This is where you compose all the desired views (sections, plan views, etc.) in the project. And then from there, the Sheet Composition stage is where you create sheets that represent finished work, ready for publication.

https://youtu.be/VgEq4m-SQZ8

Part 2 Place Named Boundary In this video, you will use the Place Named Boundary tool to rapidly place the contents of design onto a new sheet.

Part 3 Creating a Drawing Boundary Traditionally, sheet creation and layout has been a very manual and time consuming process. To overcome this, the drawing boundary feature is provided to allow you to quickly and easily define the location of a drawing on a sheet which may contain a drawing. A sheet may be subdivided into several drawing boundaries.

https://youtu.be/GrRW-bGwmMk

In a previous video, you designated areas using the drawing boundary tool within the detail sheet. A drawing boundary is a predefined area on a sheet model which may contain a drawing. As you saw, the sheet may be subdivided into several drawing boundaries.

https://youtu.be/GhhhtCjiM8Y

Part 4 Populating Drawing Boundaries In this video, you will use the Named Boundary tool to populate these drawing boundaries with additional details.

Using the Raster Manager you can attach raster images of various formats, from monochrome to full color. You can modify the location, display order, and various other settings of previously attached raster image files. When a raster attachment is modified with Raster Manager, no changes are made to the original file, just to its attachment information in the DGN file.

Part 5 Attach a Raster Image In this video, you will perform a finishing touch to the Cover sheet by placing a raster image for the location map.

https://youtu.be/I58O1yH_4zQ

https://youtu.be/ncNvaT4wxXQ

Part 6 Manipulate a Raster Image In the previous section, you attached a raster image of a location map. In this video, you will use standard manipulation tools to adjust the size and location of the location map. Then, once this is positioned onto the sheet, you will clip the image.

Parent topic: Building Designers