MicroStation Connect - Tags Sets going away

Tags/tagsets are never going to go away unless there will be a file format change which is not in our short term plan, so not only they will stay but they still have to function correctly. What has been removed in CONNECT is the GUI - the tools that create and modify tags/tagsets are no longer in the default GUI. But the keyin's are still available. As far as DWG compatibility is concerned, tags are probably still a better match for attributes, both of which are a result of legacy design with their limitations. Item Types can represent attributes fairly well and they are accessible in Properties. A general rule of thumb is that if your attributes are properly created (i.e. every attribute corresponds to an attribute definition in the parent block), use item types. A DWG file with lots of missing attribute definitions (some add-in apps or macros might create these) or full of orphaned attribute definitions (incorrectly using attrdef entities as attributes) is probably better to be opened with "Block Attributes as Tags" turned on.

Tags/tagsets are never going to go away unless there will be a file format change which is not in our short term plan, so not only they will stay but they still have to function correctly. What has been removed in CONNECT is the GUI - the tools that create and modify tags/tagsets are no longer in the default GUI. But the keyin's are still available. As far as DWG compatibility is concerned, tags are probably still a better match for attributes, both of which are a result of legacy design with their limitations. Item Types can represent attributes fairly well and they are accessible in Properties. A general rule of thumb is that if your attributes are properly created (i.e. every attribute corresponds to an attribute definition in the parent block), use item types. A DWG file with lots of missing attribute definitions (some add-in apps or macros might create these) or full of orphaned attribute definitions (incorrectly using attrdef entities as attributes) is probably better to be opened with "Block Attributes as Tags" turned on.