CADD Engineering Standards - Ohio Department of Transportation

January 18, 2013
The Models dialog box contains the following various tools that allow the user to work with models:
• Models in Active Design File – if you click the down arrow and select one of two modes:
o Active File Mode – shows the current source of the models in the master file.
o Link Set Mode – shows the models in Project Explorer, allowing you to select an
active file or folder from the active project in Project Explorer.
• Create a new Model - allows the user to create a new model inside the dgn file. This user can
also select the type and dimensionality they wish to create. See Section 303.2.2 Model Names.
• Copy a Model - allows the user to copy an existing model in the open dgn file.
• Edit Model Properties - allows the user to Edit Model Properties of a selected model, like the
name, description, Annotation scale and Line Style Scale.
• Delete Model(s) - allows the user to delete a selected model.
• Import Models - allows the user to import a selected model through a different design file.
• Sheet Boundary - allows the user to define the size of a sheet layout. This is for Sheet Models
only. ODOT does not use this function. ODOT places all sheets as cells from the standard sheet
cell library, ODOT_Sheets.cel.
• List Filter - if on displays a filter row in the list box that lets you define a filter for any of the list
columns.
• List Box – contains columns that can be added or hidden to the list box in the Models dialog box
to make it easy to identify models designated as cells and annotation cells and to determine the
cell types of such models. The Cell Type and Is Annotation Cell columns are not displayed by
default. To enable their display, Right-Click on the list heading row and turn on Cell Type and Is
Annotation Cell from the pop-up columns menu.
Double-clicking a Model within the dialog box makes the model active. Alternatively, you can use the
View Groups window to rapidly switch between models visited in the current design session as shown
below.
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