Terminator Symbols

Consists of controls that are used to specify alternate symbols (characters from symbol fonts or cells) for each of the four default dimension terminators.

Terminator Symbols category controls

Font 102 is the symbol font in the font library supplied with MicroStation that contains terminator symbols.

Various terminator types are associated with particular dimensioning tools; some of the tool names even specify a terminator type. See Tool Settings for more information.

The active dimension settings can be set to match those of a dimension element with the Match All Element Settings tool.

Arrow

Controls the specification of an alternate to the default Arrowhead:

Arrowhead	Used in dimensions
Default	Default arrowhead.
Symbol	Character and Font (by number) that are keyed in.
Cell	Cell whose name is keyed in. see footnote 170

Stroke

Controls the specification of an alternate to MicroStation's default stroke terminator symbol (choices are the same as for Arrow).

Origin

Controls the specification of an alternate to MicroStation's default origin terminator symbol (choices are the same as for Arrow).

Dot

Controls the specification of an alternate to MicroStation's default dot terminator symbol (choices are the same as for Arrow).

Note

Controls the specification of an alternate to MicroStation's default Place Note terminator symbol (choices are the same as for Arrow).

Uniform Cell Scale

Controls how cell terminator size is defined. This control does not affect terminators defined with the Default or Symbol setting.

If on, the Geometry Width value in the Terminators category uniformly scales both the width and height of cell terminators, in text height units. The Geometry Height value is ignored.

For example, assume that the Geometry Width is 1.5 and the text Height (in the Text category) is 2.0. When you place a dimension that has a cell terminator, the terminator 's size is the cell definition size multiplied by 3.0. Uniform Cell Scale is useful if you plan to save a DGN file to DWG format, since the DWG format requires cell width and height to be uniform.

If Uniform Cell Scale is off, the Geometry Width sets the terminator width in text height units. The Geometry Height sets the terminator height.

This control is available only in DGN workmode. It is controlled by the configuration variable CAPABILITY_DIMENSION_CELLTERM_HEIGHT.