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MicroStation Essentials: Designing and Annotating Elements

by Eric DeLeon

MicroStation is one of the most widely-used CAD programs in the world. This course will teach you how to select, manipulate, and modify elements, work with cells, and how to annotate your designs and drawings.

What you'll learn

Are you familiar with the basics of MicroStation, but are looking to dive deeper? Then you have come to right place.

In this course, MicroStation Essentials: Designing and Annotating Elements, you'll learn how to design, manipulate, and annotate elements within MicroStation.

  • First, you'll explore how to use various drawing tools to create new content.
  • Next, you'll discover how to select elements more efficiently.
  • Then, you'll learn how to use the manipulate tools to manipulate existing elements and how to use the modify toolbox to modify existing elements.
  • Lastly, you'll dive into placing and creating cells to be used regularly within your designs and drawings, and how to add text, dimensions, and hatch patterns to complete your design base files and sheets.
When you're finished with this MicroStation course, you'll have the essential know-how to draw and annotate your MicroStation-based projects.

Software required: MicroStation.

About the author

Eric DeLeon isn’t your typical “CAD Guy". With an 18+ year career spanning both public and private sectors, Eric has a broad drafting, design, marketing, technology, and management background that encompass work within civil engineering, industrial design, marketing, and new technology environments. He has worn many hats in his career – industrial designer, structural engineering technician, 3D/LiDAR Specialist, Creative Production Specialist, CADD Manager, and Director of LiDAR Technology res... more

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