Scale is an applicable superstructure of the MicroStation system that enables the user to make changes in the design such as the scale changes of cells (point, graphic, shared, unshared), of texts and text nodes, changes of linear objects (lines, line strings, arcs, curves etc.) and changes of dimensions (text, tolerance, terminators).

    Scale is marked by following properties:

• All the most important tools of the application are placed in the main dialog box.

• The application enables to make changes in the scale of one, selected, defined by fence or all elements in the active design file.

• By the help of locks it is possible to define the scale change of the cells (point, graphic, shared, unshared), of the line weight (lines, line strings, arcs, curves etc.) and changes of dimensions (text, tolerance, terminators).

• By the help of toggles it is possible to define the scale change of the cells (point, graphic, shared, unshared), of texts (text, text nodes), of the line styles (lines, line strings, arcs, curves etc.) and changes of dimensions (text, tolerance, terminators).

• After the first start of the application there will be made the file scale.rsc in the directory structure (the variable MS_DATA) of the MicroStation, in which all recently set values will be saved – it means after the next start of the application Scale will the values stay the same as they were with the previous start.

        Help of the Scale application is available directly from MDL application Scale on the internet.  

        Scale is available for MicroStation V8/XM/V8i, PowerDraft V8/XM/V8i and PowerMap V8/XM/V8i on the Windows XP/Vista/7 platform.