OpenBuildings™ Station Designer Help

To Show and Order the Display of Thematic Maps

The Thematic Maps dialog's Maps pane lists maps available to the active DGN file and all saved paths. Maps are displayed or hidden via the Show column. Maps may be restricted to one or more views via the Apply to column. And maps display may be ordered by moving them up or down in the list. Thematic map legends are also manipulated with the options in the Legend menu.

  1. Select (Thematic Maps) from the ribbon.

    The Thematic Maps dialog opens. Available maps are listed.

  2. Select a map or legend, and click in the Show column to display or hide the map or legend; = On, = Off.
  3. Place legends for the displayed thematic maps.

    The "On" thematic maps are displayed. The position of the map in the list determines the display. If the preceding map's results are common to a map that follows it, the first map overrides the following map.



  4. Change the thematic maps order by clicking and dragging the maps in the Maps list.
  5. Select View > Refresh.

    Selected thematic maps are displayed with the preceding map's results overriding common results to a map that follows it, the first map overrides the following map.



  6. Change the view to apply one of the thematic maps to by clicking the Apply to column. This opens the view picker pop up dialog.
  7. Select both maps and select View > Refresh. Open the views selected for displaying the maps.


  8. Move a legend by selecting Legend > Move. Identify the legend with a data point.

    The legend is attached to the pointer.

  9. Data point again to complete relocating the legend.
  10. Scale a legend by selecting Legend > Scale. The first data point selects the legend.
  11. A second data point identifies an origin point to scale the legend about.
  12. A third data point identifies a reference point from which to begin scaling.

    The legend is visible dynamically increasing or decreasing in size as the pointer is moved.

  13. The last data point completes the scaling.