• I was creating new project of house during all the past night

    I created almost 10% of my future project yesterday. I work in AutoCAD 2018. Today my boss said that the term of my order for customer was renewed for some weeks. It were good news, but only a half an hour, I opened my .dwg and I saw that all my yesterday…
  • importing extended data (metadata associated to AutoCAD objects) created in AutoCAD to Microstation V8i

    Hi, I would like to import extended data (metadata associated to AutoCAD objects) created in AutoCAD Civil 3D to Microstation V8i. Has anyone done it before? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Jerome
  • Saudi Aramco engineering file format

    Hi, We have been asked by Saudi Aramco availability of engineering drawings in the following format: SAUDI ARAMCO CADD graphical enviroment (AutoSACS 6.1), based on MICROSTATION format. After a quick search on the Internet I understood that should…
  • Round-Robin translations DGN->DWG->DGN and maintaining survey feet units

    Anyone have any tips for AutoCAD users that need to work in Survey Feet? Our sub uses (only) AutoCAD (surprise!), and they don't know a survey foot from a rabbit's foot. On some early tests they were able to work in AutoCAD with some DGN files I translated…
  • converting DGN (ft) to DWG (sf)

    I am needing to convert an existing dgn file in FT unit to a DWG with a unit of SF (Survey Foot). I have already modified the units.def file so when I attach a file I can choose the proper unit, but I don't have the same option when saving as dwg.
  • Fixing up a Corrupt CDR file

    Greetings to everyone. Could someone help me how to fix a corrupted CDR file? I was working on a file of 159+ MB file when the power suddenly went off and I couldn't open the file when the power was back. I know the file could have been corrupted and…
  • V8i, SS3 - AutoCAD drawings displaying rotated text callouts when opened in MicroStation

    I have a drawing created in AutoCAD which contains Civil 3D notes (stations and offsets). The drawing looks fine when opened in AutoCAD. However, when I open the same drawing in MicroStation, I notice that some of these callouts are rotated and do not…
  • [V8i] Exporting Element Information to DWG File

    I am part of a roadway design team working in Bentley MicroStation, and we need to provide our 3D models to the construction team who will be using Autodesk products (Navisworks, Civil3D and BIM 360 Glue). I'm looking for way to export to DWG so that…
  • [V8i] Converting to DWG puts a box around references

    Hi, I have set up a load of sheet seeds for different sized paper. This way, I can just add the appropriate sheet from seed when I want a border. I then reference in the same file and scale it to fit. This has worked great for me so far, except…
  • RealDWG 2015 libraries

    Hello Bentley friends, any idea when you will be delivering the RealDWG 2015 libraries? Thanks,
  • How to convert a DGN with tag element into a DWG file?

    I want to convert a DGN file with tag element into a DWG file along with tag values. Is any option/setting to retains the tag value?
  • Interpreting missing object enabler error messages

    Hello All, we are attempting to plot R2010 DWG files to PDF via InterPlot. I don't know a lot of the history of the files, and that's not really the issue (I hope). When opening the DWG file with MicroStation (08.11.09.4XX) I am seeing lots of red…
  • SS3 08.11.09.459 Suddenly can't open DWG

    I have a workstation that suddenly can't open the DWG files from consultants. Nothing has changed on her workstation , She has the same config as the rest of the office. we get the message "Is not a recognized file format" All other workstations…
  • Problems to do dwg file from sheet model

    Hi! I need to do dwg file from dgn sheet model. Sheet model has 4 drawing models as references, different views and sections (hidden line presentation). If I use default settings in save as options, all views are like vireframe drawings in dwg. …
  • Re: DWG Dimensions too large

    I have more to add to this thread. In experimenting with the Small house drawing posted earlier, I can see how the text elements scale dynamically, but I cannot get the dimensions to scale in the Design files. So if I set the Drawing scale in the design…
  • AutoCAD PGP file not working in V8i

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    I am currently upgrading our office from V8 2004 to V8i (SELECTseries 2) and everything is working great, except for the AutoCAD PGP file we use for our AutoCAD users. The same PGP file works fine in V8 2004, but for some reason all I get in the V8i…
  • AutoCAD Reference Speed Issue

    I’m having a bit of an issue with speed. We are working in a mixed environment (some depts. On AutoCAD and some on MicroStation) . I am opening a MicroStation V8i drawing that has 10 AutoCAD references (43 Mb total), some 2008 and some 2010. It takes…
  • V8i vs V8 XM

    I have a MicroStation file with 6 AutoCAD reference files in it. We are running MicroStation V8i SS2 08.11.07.443. The project was started several months ago in V8 XM and it was slow, but not unbearable. I was wondering if we were having network issues…
  • Open a DWG

    I can't open a dwg. I use Microstation V8i SS2
  • Cell conversions to DWG

    Hi, We are currently working on a number of project where we seem to be experiencing problems with cells when they are converted to dwg. Our current workflow is to batch all dgn's to a bound dgn and then convert the bound dgn to dwg. What we are…
  • Re: Translating Microstation levels to Autocad

    Since V8i you should hold your DGN based standards in DGNLibs (dgn files), Cell-libraries(dgn files) for cells! For levels/layers I can say, if you may save your dgn to dwg and all levels can be saved (used or unused). Linetypes has to be compatible…
  • Translating Microstation levels to Autocad

    We use Microstation as our base CAD program at my office. Recently we are starting to incorporate Autocad into the mix for certain projects. We don't really have a standard in place for Autocad, but I would like to use the same base standard that we use…
  • Problematic Patterns (DWG => DNG)

    Microstation compatriots, I'm translating a DWG to DNG and I'm moving over some patterns. Bellow is the original DWG: Now everything moves over okay excluding this insulation pattern highlighted in the picture bellow. When I move it…
  • DWG out with .csv level remap - prevent elements from making it to the output file.

    Is there a way to do this. I'd like to not have elements (delete if you will) on any "NPLT" level, show up in my .dwg file when I convert. Second question, is there a wild card I can use in the Level name .csv file. I see that "*NPLT" does not work…
  • Losing AutoCAD Reference Info

    This is the second time I have had this problem is a couple of weeks. Hopefully someone might be able to give me a lead on how to solve it. I have a survey drawing that was created in AutoCAD 2004. I referenced this file into Microstation to create…