How to Create Cell Library
Notebooks
Trying to remember the appearance,
name and location of specific cells can consume valuable
production time. This time factor multiplies itself
when the above is done continuously by every user
at a MicroStation site. Axiom’s CellManager solves
this problem by plotting a cell library notebook containing
the graphic and non-graphic details (name, description,
levels used, etc.) of each and every cell in the library.
This month, MicroStation Today walks you through the
steps involved in creating a cell library notebook
from MicroStation.
- From the Axiom menu in MicroStation,
select CellManager.
- Select the cell library from
which you’d like to create a cell library notebook.
- Depending upon whether the cell
library is 2D or 3D, CellManager chooses the appropriate
seed file to generate a “work” file —
the design file in which CellManager draws your
cell library notebook before printing or plotting.
- Next, choose a work file or
accept the default name that displays when you put
the cursor in the “Work File:” field.
The <Select…> button next to the field
lets you do this graphically.
- On the main CellManager dialog
box, click the <Draw Pages…> button.
You’ll see the “Draw Pages” dialog
box appear.
- From its “Configure”
menu, select “Settings…”.
- Then select the radio button
for “Plotter” and click the <Select…>
button next to the “Config File:” field
to select a plot driver that will allow MicroStation
to plot (or print) to the device of your choice.
- Select the radio button next
to “Page”. This lets you select the number
of cells you’d like CellManager to plot per
page. The choices are 1, 4, 9, 16 and 25. Once you’ve
made your choice, click on the <Close> button.
- From the “Draw Pages”
dialog box, click on the “Draw Pages”
button. In seconds, CellManager generates a design
file containing all the cells in your cell library
and any detail information you might want. Click
the <OK> button on the “Process complete”
box when CellManager is done with the process.
- Now, from the “Draw Pages”
dialog box, click on the <Create Plots> button.
Click on the <OK> button when the “Process
complete” box appears.
- Next, click on the <Submit
Plots> button. Once the submittal process is
completed, click the <OK> button on the “Process
complete” box.
- In minutes, you will have a
cell library notebook complete with detailed information
about each cell including a table of contents showing
each cell name, description and the page in the
notebook which contains it.
CellManager boosts your MicroStation
productivity in many other ways. It is capable of
copying cells from one library to another without
opening a single design file, rescaling some or all
cells in a cell library at the touch of a button,
quickly locating and eliminating duplicate cells in
cell libraries, renaming, deleting and modifying cells
while viewing them graphically and much more.
Click here
to find out more about CellManager.
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