I'm having issues when opening dwg models in Microstation - the drawing elements scatter all over the place.
I've passed on some example dwg files to a fellow Microstation user, and he's able to open the files with no problems, so must be an issue with my system. Funnily enough I'm encountering the same issue on my Desktop (v8i) and Laptop (v8 - converted dwg to 2007 version to see if that helped - same issue).
Any ideas on what's going wrong or how to begin trouble shooting this issue?
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Unknown said: I'm having issues when opening dwg models in Microstation - the drawing elements scatter all over the place. I've passed on some example dwg files to a fellow Microstation user, and he's able to open the files with no problems, so must be an issue with my system. Funnily enough I'm encountering the same issue on my Desktop (v8i) and Laptop (v8 - converted dwg to 2007 version to see if that helped - same issue). Any ideas on what's going wrong or how to begin trouble shooting this issue? INTENDED DISPLAY: MY DISPLAY:
need to see all your settings , level manager, level display manager, View attributes settings, refmanager...
Can you see how many element counts are in the DWG level display / manager
what if you select all what does the element count report in the comment bar? Do they match?
Do you have an acad viewer like TrueView .. you can use this to compare what it should look like...
What happens if you ref attach the said dwg into an empty dgn and use say an override of all colour 0 on the ref file... can you see everything now?
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You screen capture shows that you use MicroStation SS4. Assuming that you use default installation of RealDWG2016, you might have hit a problem we have recently discovered. SAT bodies exported from AutoCAD2016 and/or RealDWG2016 may contain an additional translation component in its transformation data section and may appear shifted when imported into a product of V8i generation where the ACIS kernel is still used. Impacted products will be updated to take a fix for this new problem. But you can work this around by using RealDWG2014. Chances are good that you may already have RealDWG2014 installed (check your control panel to confirm). If it is not already installed on your computer, but you have an SS3 product extracted on a local folder, you shall find realdwg2014.msi on that folder. You can independently run and install it. When RealDWG2014 is properly installed, you can set MS_REALDWG_VERSION=2014 in MicroSation SS4. From there on you will be using RealDWG2014 and you can avoid the SAT body translation issue. Rest assured that there is no DWG file format change between R2014 and R2016. So DWG files created by either release of RealDWG are the same.
Answer Verified By: Aaron Hammond