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Settings	Description
Place Text	Allows you to place a text element(s).
Edit Text	Allows you to edit text in a text, text node, or dimension element to replace, add, or delete characters.
Change Text Attributes	Allows you to change selected text-specific element attributes of a text or tag element(s).
Spell Checker	Allows you to review text, text nodes, tags, dimensions, notes and symbols for spelling errors.
Match Text Attributes	Allows you to set the active text settings (such as Justification, Font, Line Spacing Type, Underline, Slant Angle, and Inter Character Spacing) the same as the corresponding attributes of text in the design.
Place Text Along	Allows you to place text relative to line segment (line element or segment of a line string, shape, or multi-line).
Find/Replace	Allows you to search all the text in a DGN file for any sequence of letters and numbers and replace some or all instances of the text with other text.
Display Text Attributes	Allows you display the attributes of a text or multi-line text node element.
Copy/Increment Text	Allows you to copy and increment a text element that contains numbers.
Copy Enter Data Field	Allows you to copy the contents of one enter data field to another.
Copy/Increment Enter Data Fields	Allows you to copy and increment the contents of an enter data field that contains numbers into another enter data field.
Fill in Single Enter-data Fields	Allows you to fill in or change and enter data field.
Auto Fill in Enter Data Fields	Allows you to fill in all empty enter data fields in a view.
Change Case	Allows you to change the case of a piece of text.
Update All Fields	Allows you to update all fields in the text elements in the active model or file.
Drop Text	Allows you to convert the text characters in a text element to the individual elements that are used to draw the characters - lines, line strings, arcs, ellipses, and shapes.
Text Style	Allows you to create and modify text styles. Also sets the active text style or, if a style is not active, the active text attributes.

Notes

Settings	Description
Place Note	Allows you to place lines of text with a leader line and arrow, or a callout without a leader.
Place Label	Allows you to place labels.

Dimensioning

Settings	Description
Dimension Linear	Allows you to dimension the linear distance between two points (length).
Dimension Angular	Allows you to dimension angles. Each dimension (except the first) is computed from the endpoint of the previous dimension.
Dimension Element	Allows you to dimension an element.
Dimension Ordinates	Allows you to label distances along an axis from an origin (datum) along the ordinate axis (the line along which the distances are measured).
Change Dimension	Allows you to change a dimension element to the active dimension attributes.
Match Dimension Attributes	Allows you to set the active dimension settings to the dimension attributes of a dimension element.
Drop Dimension Element	Allows you to break up a dimension element(s) into lines, line strings, ellipses, arcs, and text.
Reassociate Dimensions	Allows you to reassociate a linear or radial dimension to an element.
Insert Dimension	Allows you to add an extension line to a dimension element.
Remove Dimension	Allows you to remove an extension line from a dimension element.
Dimension Audit	Allows you to search all the dimensions in the active model and report any problems.
Element Dimensioning	Allows you to dimension an element.
Place Centre Mark Tool	Allows you to place a center mark at the center of a circle or arc.
Dimension Styles	Allows you to create and modify dimension styles. Also sets the active dimension style (or, if a style is not active, the active dimension settings).

Tables

Settings	Description
Place Table	Allows you to place a table in the model.
Style Manager	Allows you to manage style

Detailing

Settings	Description
Section Callout	Allows you to place a section callout and, optionally, create a saved view and automate dynamic views.
Detail Callout	Allows you to place a detail callout and, optionally, create a saved view and automate dynamic views.
Elevation Callout	Allows you to place a single elevation callout or an interior elevation callout.
Plan Callout	Allows you to place a plan callout and optionally, create a saved view and automating dynamic views.
Drawing Boundary	Allows you to place a drawing boundary in a model.
Cloud by Points	Allows you to place a revision cloud.
Cloud on Element	Allows you to create a revision cloud by modifying or copying an existing element.
Detailing Symbol Styles	Allows you to create and modify detailing symbol styles.

Cells

Settings	Description
Place Active cell	Allows you to place the Active Cell.
Place Active Cell Matrix	Allows you to place a matrix of the Active Cell.
Replace Cells	Allows you to replace single or multiple cells in a model, or to update cells in a model, with cells of the same name from the active cell library.
Select and Place Cell	Allows you to select a cell in the DGN file and place an additional instance(s) of that cell.
Define Cell Origin	Allows you toto define the cell origin (the point about which the cell is placed).
Place Active Line Terminator	Allows you to place the Active Line Terminator cell on a line, line string, arc, or complex chain, primarily to place arrowheads. The line terminator maintains association with the element on which it is placed. Thus, if you move or rotate the element, the line terminator moves or rotates along with the element.
Place Cell Index	Allows you to create and place a cell index. A cell index contains all of the models in the active DGN file that are marked as "Can be placed as cell."
Cell Selector	Allows you to select a cell library from the Select Cell Library to Load dialog opens the Cell Selector dialog, which is used to find and place cells.
Identify Cell	Allows you to display the name and level of a cell in the design.
Cells	Allows you to attach cell libraries and activate different types of cells, if one is attached.

Patterns

Settings	Description
Hatch Area	Allows you to hatch an area. Elements used to define the area to be hatched can be in the active model, or in references.
Crosshatch Area	Allows you to crosshatch an area. Elements used to define the area to be crosshatched can be in the active model, or in references.
Pattern Area	Allows you to pattern an area by tiling the active pattern cell or AutoCAD pattern. Elements used to define the area to be patterned can be in the active file, or in references.
Match Pattern Attributes	Allows you to pattern an area by tiling the active pattern cell or AutoCAD pattern. Elements used to define the area to be patterned can be in the active file, or in references.
Change Pattern	Allows you to change an existing pattern to: Match the current attributes and/or pattern parameters. Redefine the intersection point of the patterning. Re-flood the area.
Delete Pattern	Allows you to delete patterning.
Linear Pattern	Allows you to draw or "tile"a pattern along an existing linear element. That is, to replace the linear element with repetitions of the pattern cell.
Show Pattern Attributes	Allows you to display the Pattern Angle and Pattern Scale attributes of a pattern element.

Terrain Model

Settings	Description
Label Terrain Contours	Allows you to place additional labels for elevation on selected contours.
Label Terrain Spots	Allows you to label elevations at specific locations on the terrain model.
Import LandXML terrain Model	Allows you to create a terrain model element by importing from a LandXML file.
Label Coordinates	Allows you to label coordinate points in the design by entering a data point.
Label Element	Allows you to label the coordinates of elements. When you label an element, all of the element's key points are labelled (all vertices and the origin).
Export Coordinates	Allows you to export coordinates of elements to an ASCII text file.
Import Coordinates	Allows you to import coordinates from an ASCII text file and place them as points, text, or cells.