CADD Engineering Standards - Ohio Department of Transportation

Survey Processing (Existing Basemap):
January 18, 2013
The GEOPAK Project Preferences dialog box is used to control how the Cells in the basemap will
be drawn. To use the Model Properties “Annotation Scale” feature, the Cells must be visualized at
a scale of one (1.0) as shown below:
The Plot Scale item is used to control the size of the Cells, and Text used in the mapping of the
survey data. The base scale is defined for each feature code in the SMD file. The Plot Scale should
normally be set to a value of one 1.0 for all ODOT projects.
Text and cells placed by GEOPAK Survey are not automatically scaled until the annotation scale is
manually applied to the survey mapping.
To apply the model annotation scale to the Cells and Text, type the command Annotationscale Add
into the Key-in window inside MicroStation as shown below:
This command will apply the annotation scale to all the cells and text in the model. The cells and text
will now take on the active model annotation scale value.
After the annotation scale has been applied to the cells and text in the file by use of the
Annotationscale Add command, you do not need to run the key-in command again for the cells and
text to honor changes to the model annotation scale.
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