Configuration of the communication module

The attributes of point displaying in the drawing can be set using the command Settings->Attributes and Settings->Coordinates.

Display attributes

Display attributes

In this dialog window, you can define which point attributes will be displayed in the drawing. You can switch off/on the display of point, prefix, number, height, code (text), and mark on the point (according to the code). For each of these items, you can choose level, color, and eventually size, font and location.

You can create and assign names to up to 20 configuration sets. If you want to define a configuration set, set all attributes, enter the configuration name in the window Name and press the button (Save). The configuration set will be added to the list. If you want to delete a configuration set, point at it in the list, and press the button (Delete). You can choose the active configuration set by pointing at it on the list with the mouse.

Note

The last configuration set can not be deleted, at least one set must be always defined.

If you choose the same location for the prefix and number (e.g. in the upper middle part), the complete number will be displayed on the list in form prefix-number (separated with a hyphen).

The text size is entered in millimeters in the final drawing, the real size in the drawing is calculated according to the scale set in this dialog window.

If you switch on the option Add point information, then with every import a special item, PointString type, is created on each point. This item has the point information attached, i.e. number, prefix, and height thanks to User Data Linkage. If this information is stored in the drawing, it can be used for further work. The point numbers and heights can be dynamically displayed, and a coordinate list can be generated which contains the original point numbers and the updated coordinates from the drawing.

The option Texts independent of the projection can also be advantageously used for work in 3D. If it is on, the element is created independent of the projection angle, i.e. they are always readable in all projections (in ground projection, side projection and in general projections).

Coordinates settings

You can set in what way the real coordinate shall be converted to the drawing coordinates in this dialog window. You can set the coordinates reduction, coefficients to multiply the coordinates, or the replacement of X and Y. Implicitly, the module is preset for the common method for the work in MicroStation (to achieve the correct axis orientation, the coordinates X and Y are replaced and both are multiplied by a coefficient -1).