SHP export

Re: SHP export

Jeff Bielefeld — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:30:48 GMT

Greetings Karl,

As I previously mentioned, "Using the "Interoperability" application, I was able to export 9,284 feature instances into 57 SHP files, after deselecting the Myndkort feature class, which seemed to refer to an unsupported geometry type.". The creation of the multiple SHP files was done using the "Interoperability" application and the "Add Shapefile Directory..." functionality.

I suspect my test using your data was influenced by the fact (as mentioned below) that there was a mismatch between the feature instances and the provided database. If you could provide another data set with feature instances and cooresponding database tables I will gladly perform additional testing.

Regards,

Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Re: SHP export

kaa — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:56:42 GMT

Hi Jeff, I am still having this same probelm and have bin doing some investigation and I have found out that this error only apears when I create a shape file using "Add Shapefile Directory" (not when I create shape files using the "Add Shapefile" option).

Is it possible when you dit your test on my data that you used the "Add Shapefile" option ?

regards

karl

Re: SHP export

kaa — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:49:34 GMT

Hi Jeff, here is a path where you can get my XML file.

http://www.nethal.net/action/download?ref=619B49434AE34185FCB01FE282865F441

Just in case I am doing somthing wrong here is a small description of how I am doing this.

1: Create a odbc connection to the database, open Bentley Geospatial Mangaer and select File > Import > MG Database

2: After the import is finised I select File > Export > all Metadata and W-files

3: Start BM, in Microstation Manager I select the workspace name I exported from BGA and open hitaveita.hit

4: In BM I select File > Export > GIS data types, create a new Export, right click on it and select Add Shapefile Directory, right click on the shape file and deselect all fetures. Right click on category Hitaveita and select all features

I can see the process running in the status bar and the % is ticking but after about 15-30 sec the process stoppes and the message "Unable to retrieve feature with id: 255654|0" comes in the status bar

As I mentioned before I have experianced exatly the same in other data sets.

I usualy updat my computer vhen Bentley issues new releces so I dont have the exact version number of one where this export was a success but it was V8

regards

karl

Re: SHP export

Jeff Bielefeld — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:05:52 GMT

Greetings Karl,

Unfortunately I'm unable to duplicate the described behavior using the provided data set. There seems to be mismatch between the feature instances and the provided database. For example, I see many linear feature instances representing the Götulagnir feature class whose entity number appears to be 1212 but the MSCATALOG contains no such entry. Using the "Data Browser" I was able to load all the instance data in the design file, although the business properties were not loaded, more than likely due to the previously mentioned entity number problem.

You mentioned this was a legacy MicroStation GeoGraphics project. If so, could you provide a copy of the XFM schema for this data set which defines the database tables for each feature class?

In what version of Bentley Map did you observe different behavior that would allow "Export" to continue, basically skipping invalid feature instances?

Using the "Interoperability" application, I was able to export 9,284 feature instances into 57 SHP files, after deselecting the Myndkort feature class, which seemed to refer to an unsupported geometry type.

Regards,

Jeff Bielefeld [Bentley]

Re: SHP export

kaa — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:32:52 GMT

Hi, here is a link to the small demo data, I have experianced this same problem using data from 3 different customers. In this case it's a legacy Geographic database.

http://www.nethal.net/action/download?ref=4F63D06B46E7E53D895B643F274425872

regards, karl

Re: SHP export

Phil Chouinard — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:12:14 GMT

Can you provide a source file (preferably small) where you are seeing this?