Bentley Fiber

Fiber Annotation Setup

Open the Annotation Dialog Box

  1. From the Bentley Comms menu, select Fiber/Copper/ISPSetup > OSP > Annotation.The Annotation dialog box opens.

  2. Select a text style and a weight for each of the Fiber feature available from the Type drop-down list.
  3. Click Update to update the database.
Note: Comms feature annotation text style definitions come by default in the delivered Comms DGN seed files. A user can use the delivered text style names or choose to create new text style definitions to be used and assigned to Comms features.

Creating a Text Style

  1. In a Microstation session, open the TextStyles.dgnlib located in the project DGNLIB folder.
  2. Select Element > Text Styles in Microstation, this will open the Text Styles dialog.

  3. From the menu bar of the Text Styles dialog, choose Style > New or from the icon bar of the Text Styles dialog, click New.
  4. A new “Untitled” style appears in the Text Styles list.
    Note: The settings for the new style are taken from the active settings. To use another text style as a template, activate it first, then create a new style; or make a copy.
  5. Key in the name for the new text style and press <Enter>.
  6. The new text style name appears in the Text Styles list.
  7. From the Text Styles dialog, choose Styles > Save.
  8. The new text style is saved.
    Note: The new text style is not automatically activated; you must choose the new text style, right click, and activate it before it is used for text placement.