Lineardraft Training Handbook

Before you get going, please make sure you've got the most up-to-date version of Lineardraft and its components installed and activated. If you haven't already got this sorted, please follow the steps below and you'll be up and running in no time!

1. Install Lineardraft Desktop
2. Activate Lineardraft
3. Install Lineardraft Core
4. Install Lineardraft Plugins
5. Download Design Catalogue(s)
6. Download Project Settings

Please note: Lineardraft Core and Lineardraft Desktop must me installed by the user, not an administrator. Lineardraft Plugins require local administrator rights to install.

This first section is all about getting you set up with Lineardraft so you are ready to start learning to design using Lineardraft, Make sure you've got: 

• All Lineardraft components downloaded, installed and activated
• Confidence using basic functions in MicroStation CONNECT 
• A track alignment file ready to use (PWay)
• A 3D Metric seed file

Configure Lineardraft Settings

• Changing your Active Project Settings 
• Changing your Active Design Catalogues 

Views

• Navigating Views
• Using Highlight 

This section will get you started with the basics of designing in Lineardraft, from placing your very first structure, to adding wires, copying structures, and making some simple configurations. Work through these in your own blank model building on your skills as you go. 

Structures

• Placing a Structure
• Deleting a Structure

Wires

• Creating a New Wire 
• Attaching Wires
• Adding Equipment
• Deleting Wires

Speed Up Design

• Copying a Structure 
• Copying Wires 
• Moving Structures
• Splitting Wires 
• Joining Wires

Basic Edits

• Edit a Structure
• Change Steelwork with Equipment Attached
• Override Gantry Length 

Annotations

• Adding Span & Versine Annotations 
• Deleting Span & Versine Annotations
• Annotation Boxes 
• Moving Annotations 
• Resetting Annotation Positions 

Tracks

• Adding Additional Tracks to a Structure 
• Main Tracks & Additional Tracks 
• Reassociating Tracks

This section works on the basis you are comfortable with the basics of Lineardraft and introduces more advanced functionality. Try each of the instructional articles in an existing practice model. 

Structures

• Structure Settings 
• Adding and Editing Backties 
• Adding and Editing Ornaments 
• Adding Notes
• Hiding Structures in 3D  

Wires

• Edit a Wire Point
• Overriding Drop Tube Settings
• Adding an Anchor to a Structure 
• Placing an MPA on a Mast 
• Placing an MPA on a Gantry
• Adjusting Wires for an MPA on Gantry
• Editing Span Types 

In-Span Equipment

• Adding In-Span Equipment 
• Editing In-Span Equipment
• Adding In-Span Equipment to an MPA on a Gantry 

Statuses 

• Setting Structure Status
• Editing Structure Component status
• Setting Wire Point Status

• Exporting Designs
• Separating 2D Layout & 3D Model 
• Creating and Updating Saved Views 
• What Reports Lineardraft Produces
• Generating Reports