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over 8 years ago

DGN and DWG repair tools

I would like to see a better repair tool and interface. The current VRG tool is limited and offers the user no control or assistance in understanding any issues with the files.

Reason

If we had a dialog similar to that of Axioms file fixers, it would be a massive benefit. Plus offer the users even better control over DWG files

Thank you

Ian Lapper

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Offline Ian Lapper over 3 years ago

bentley.... the status is under review...and has been fir a while..... when can we expect to see something?
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Offline Ian Lapper over 3 years ago in reply to Oto

If bentley are considering this... it needs to be available in ALL applications not just the power products ie PowerDraft needs it too.

Also, Autocad has this tool for dwg.

As I mentioned it needs to do what axion file fixer does and more.

Ian
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Offline Oto over 3 years ago in reply to Lorys

Releasing file fixer would admit that DGN corruption is existing problem. DGN is based on doc structured storage format so with good programming practice(vectored exception handling) it should be not prone to corruption. Yes users need to have backups but even losing some days work is sad. There still seems to be some issue where files get corrupted. Blame is on SMB but then other docfiles would be also corrupted but issue is with Microstation - https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/6935/microstation-file-access-issues-with-shared-network-drives
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Offline Lorys over 3 years ago in reply to Ian Lapper

Bentley version of what Axiom File fixer does is what we need and include options that EDG used to have for v7 but with a GUI would be the BOMB..

right now only option is for your company to buy single license and make that person or cad administrator the FILE FIXER person .. not really very efficient ad hard to convince management you need expensive too for expensive package
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Offline Ian Lapper over 4 years ago in reply to Oto

Cheers Oto. I agree, but looking at what verifyDGN does, I feel we need to have an actual tool that can diagnose the DGN file and report on where it is bad and then offer a series of repair options.

including... fix range, bad file headers, etc
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