Creating user Linetype style in microstation is quite easy if you follow the steps i will show you.
In microstation it is important to know how to create your own linestyle because its easy for
you to manipulate the lines you want to do.
An example of these problem is when you use the standard linestyle on microstation you are
very limited to these standard but if you know how to create simply Linestyle you can
easily manipulate the linestyle you want to use in your drawings.
Below is step by step guide how to create your own linestyle in microstation.
Step 1. Go to Line Style editor. On the Main menu bar go to Element> Linestyle > Edit. The Linestyle give you everything you need to modify and create a linestyle.
Step 2. Make a new Linestyle library. Create a new new linetyle file ,
On the Linestyle Editor Dialog box go to File > New > and create a file and name it as TUTORIAL.
I have shown below the graphic for the newly created library of your new linestyle file.
Step 3.Create a New Linestyle name. In the microstation it will automatically put a new
Unnamed line style. But we will going to modify that name to Flag.
On the Line Style dialog box go to EDIT > CREATE > NAME. On this tutorial we will called
our new style with Flag.
Step 5. Now we will create a stroke pattern: On the Line style editor
Go to EDIT > CREATE> STROKE PATTERN after that we will rename the
New Stroke Component to Flag Stroke Component. We are renaming our line style to easily
manage and organize our contents in the library.
Now we are going to define our dashes and gap of our new style.
We will add three stroke pattern by clicking the Add button 3 times.
Every segment shown is a button that needs to be push in order to modify the elements. Click the first segment, adjust its settings by these settings:
First segment: Fixed Length: 1.0 Stroke Type: Dash
Middle segment: Fixed Length: 0.5 Stroke Type: Dash
Last segment: Fixed Length: 0.5 Stroke Type: Dash
And all other settings will remain the default values.
Step 6. Create the point component : On the Line style dialog
Go to EDIT > CREATE > after that change and rename it to Flag Point Component.
And identify the base stroke pattern by clicking the Flag stroke Component.
Then create a 0.5 units of triangle these will be going to be the pattern of our linestyle
you can use different shape defends on what linestyle are you going to use.
On the CREATE button then fence the triangle we created.
Then to insert the point symbol we created to the base stroke .
Click the middle stroke and make it active the on the SELECT
button click and select the Flag pattern we created.
Step 7. Create a compound definition:
We are going to create our compound definition for our linestyle.
These is the combination of existing stroke and point components that when we
put together we are to going t create these linestyle.
Change the compound to Flag compound component and insert all the stroke
and point we created.
On the INSERT button look for Flag Point component and Flag Stroke component.
8. After we insert the Point and Stroke component we created link
all these to the compound we created on the previews steps.
On the Linestyle style dialog box go to EDIT and click Link to the
compound we created.
9.Almost done. Now we are going to save our project.
On the Linestyle dialog box go to FILE > SAVE.
Now try the new linestyle and enjoy these tips in creating linestyle.
You can explore whatever linestyle you want to create.
Dont forget to comment if the topic help you.
