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Placing graphic cells

Placing graphic cells - MicroStation Tutorial

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Placing graphic cells

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- Another method for placing a cell is located in the expanded portion of the tool settings dialog. I will expand to see additional settings available for placing cells. In this example, I want the active cell to be the directional arrow, so I will locate that cell in the Cell Library dialog and double-click on it to make it active. Next, I will turn on the Interactive setting and choose Rotate Only. This allows me to place the cell and interactively rotate it during the placement. if you see a cell already placed in your active design file but you don't know the same of it, and you just want to place another, you can use the Select and Place command to select the cell in the drawing and place another one. This i usually easier than just copying, scaling, and rotating the copy. I will select the deciduous tree and set the angle to zero and the active scale to 150. This command does not inherit the angle and scale from the selected cell in the drawing. Now let's take a look at how the…

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