Manual Dimension Text

When placing dimensions, due to the way text is moved outside of the extension lines, you can sometimes end up with what looks like an incorrect dimension string...

9th of July 2012

Converting Tags to Text

We have a series of DWG files which we are using to produce our drawings. We have been trying to set the text in the DWGs to use annotation scale, but nothing we seem to do works. Is there a way we can do this?

20th of October 2011

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by Evolve Consultancy, 15th of October 2010

Annotation Scale and Text

A V8i update on Annotation Scale and how it works with text.

17th of July 2009

Annotation Scale and References

You know all about Annotation Scale right? Well how does it work with References?

16th of July 2009

Wish List: new wish added for Annotation Scale across references

Annotation Scale is useful, but not as useful as it could be...

10th of July 2007

Annotation Scale 201

In followup to Annotation Scale 101, this short article explains how to edit the scales in the list.

15th of January 2007

Annotation Scale 101

If you haven't started using Annotation scale yet then you may consider linking it to your XM rollout. Get the complete picture here.

15th of January 2007

Dialogue Drawingscale Open

You want your users to be able to change the annotation scale, but don’t really want to give them full access to Models…

5th of June 2006

Can you discuss the effect of values in the option "Setback distance in plot"?

“Setback Distance in Plot” is a setting in Bentley Structural’s Resymbolisation Rules that controls how a line is trimmed relative to its end point…

30th of January 2006