How to copy elements from one .dgn to another

Hi All:

How do you copy elements from one .dgn file to another and keep the elements at the same x, y.

In AutoCad I would copy and paste at 0,0...but can't find the command in Microstation.

Thanks!

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  • Identify the elements to be copied - this is either with a fence, by selection set or individually.

    When the copy command askes for you to accept the selection, thats when you key in:

    DX=,,

    And that issues the acceptance point at the same coordinate (delta x,y,z of 0,0,0)

    With fence or selection, you are identifying the point to copy from first. This is like AutoCAD Base Point. With individual elements, the point on which you identify the elements is the base point.

    DX=0,0,0 is like @ in AutoCAD.


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
  • Can't figure it out....

    1. select elements
    2. right click menu...copy to clip board
    3. key in DX=,,
    4. open another file
    5. right click menu...paste from clip board?????

    the elements are just floating waiting for data point

  • thermal:

    Can't figure it out....

    1. select elements
    2. right click menu...copy to clip board
    3. key in DX=,,
    4. open another file
    5. right click menu...paste from clip board?????

    the elements are just floating waiting for data point

    Wrong order and commands, try this:

    1.  select elements
    2.  DX=0,0
    3.  right click menu...copy to clip board
    4.  open another file
    5.  right click menu...paste from clip board
    6. DX=0,0

    --Kevin

  • what's after # 6?

    the elements are still floating and puts them at the data point selected and not at 0,0

  • I seem to have the same problem as Thermal. When you open a new drawing in MicroStation, and select the right click/paste from clipboard, the element selection set shows up in the new drawing, and moves dynamically, waiting for the user to pick a point where the elements should be placed. If you key in DX=0,0 the elements will be placed somewhere in the drawing that's related to the last data point in the drawing (I think).  The Dx=0,0 in step 2 described above doesn't really seem to do anything, and the DX=0,0 in step 6 doesn't seem to relate to the previous drawing in any way. It seems to me that attaching as a reference file is the only way to go, unless I'm missing something crucial.