Sometimes I try to get acad-users to open or reference my dgns directly - but mostly get negative feedback.
Any experience with this?
Only 2d geometry
3d geometry
Building Views?
regards / Thomas Voghera
I am not Technical Support but I will explain you how DGN file(s) work in AutoCAD. I think I made a mistake by saying that it opens the Active Model that is not true. My apologies for that.
There are 3 options of getting a DGN into AutoCAD;
1. Open
2. Import
3. Reference
When you use Open and/or Import you will have the option of selecting which Model you would like to Open and/or Import. However when you use Reference it will only look at the Default Model and give you only the reference file(s) which are referenced in the Default Model.
So let assume you have a file called A. File A contains 4 Models which are Default, M1, M2 and M3. If you use Open and/or Import you will get the option to select between Models Default, M1, M2 and M3. When you use Reference you will only see the Models which are referenced into Model Default. So if you would have referenced M2 and M3 in the Default Model you will only see M2 and M3 as your option.
Hope this makes it a bit clearer for you.