MicroStation I/RAS B Engineer Functionality's General Workflow
The Engineer Tools, now available in MicroStation I/RAS B, offer a real solution to the challenge of converting existing engineering, manufacturing, and facilities drawings. It streamlines and accelerates the conversion/vectorization process.
Below are the steps involved for a general workflow to take a hard copy of a drawing and produce a file that represents the original data in vector format.
- Select the drawing for your input data.
- Scan the drawing at 200-400 dpi.
- Clean up and prepare the raster file for conversion using I/RAS B.
- Speckle Remove and SAVE
- Hole Fill and SAVE
- Smooth and SAVE
- Apply any other raster modifications
- Convert the raster file using I/RAS Engineer
- Configure viewing environment using View > Preferences > Quick Zoom
- Set Raster Separation and Raster Snap parameters
- Create cell/terminator libraries and symbology sets
- Begin the vectorization process and SAVE periodically
- Plot the drawing (either via MicroStation Plotting or InterPlot) or enter the converted data into the next software application.