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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/106872/see-attached-references-of-dgn-file-without-opening-it-in-microstation</link><description>Is there a way or application I can use to just see a .dgn attached referenc tree, instead of opening it through microstation? 
 The situation I&amp;#39;m running into is I have a huge project files, and I need to go through all my files to determine all the</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/462604?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 21:57:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:172030ba-c6d8-4725-9686-c6df07120a6e</guid><dc:creator>Jay Avila</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;best way is using RefManager from axiomint dot com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323241?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 01:21:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:70c8b5b8-224b-4705-8f18-df7db2b50cfb</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;geewizz&amp;quot;] look Lory macro file, and tried it out and I think I&amp;#39;m doing something wrong on how exactly to use it, I&amp;#39;ll play with it some more..&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;unzip the macro zip file say into c:\temp\macro ( there is a readme when you extract that explains how &amp;nbsp;but it is very brief ) below is my explanation of how to use the tools....BTW this in a public domain macro created and donated by&amp;nbsp;Allan Seidel 7/27/98 akseidel@swbell.net .. Please do not remove his details from the macro code comments.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ok &amp;nbsp;lets start ....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;open any microstation session file even new&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;from the keyin window key in macro &amp;lt;and hit enter&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this brings up the macro browser &amp;nbsp;now use the &amp;nbsp;browse function to &amp;nbsp;go to c:\temp\macro&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;there will be the . bas file click on it and it will ask you if you want to run it press ok&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;then it will ask you to browse to the folder where the dgn files that you want to list live &amp;nbsp;choose any dgn in that folder and the &amp;nbsp;macro will scan all dgns in that &amp;nbsp;folder and &amp;nbsp;out put a file to REFENTEXT.TXT in the same &amp;nbsp;folder you selected the dgn in&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you can now either open and edit this file in excel your self &amp;nbsp;or use the&amp;nbsp;REFLOOKR.XLS in c:\temp\macro to load it where it lives and it will format it excel style for you very easy to read and use and gives lots of information..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Repeat running the macro and &amp;nbsp;this time go to a different folder and choose any dgn and it will again scan all dgns in that &amp;nbsp;folder only and report &amp;nbsp;a text file there...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have used this to look for circular ref files or ref files that &amp;nbsp;others have made and you dont know the impact of moving or deleting ... I believe this is the fastest cheapest method I have found in 15 years &amp;nbsp;lets hope that bas program ability stays around in msnt a few more years yet..... the only other way is to by &amp;nbsp;projectwise or Axiom tools &amp;nbsp;and these are very good but very expensive...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323169?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 15:07:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:dc9faedc-0b55-4c6b-b74d-6cbfd8586e90</guid><dc:creator>geewizz</dc:creator><description>Mara reply was what I needed. Based on Jan post, it would be nice to be able to see the live nested ref as well. But I think solution Mara posted, would be good enough to at least see one level of reference. I was basically needed to be able to see the reference link from a given cadd file, I able using this to determine the master ref file a project is using to see if every files are using the same master ref, or if there was some odd ball files using different ref. Thanks for the help. I look Lory marco file, and tried it out and I think I&amp;#39;m doing something wrong on how exactly to use it, I&amp;#39;ll play with it some more..&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323163?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 14:40:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c4c3ed5b-27c5-4089-9e0b-000a4890cd0c</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>again - I would like to ask why you are looking for this information ? What specifically do you want to use it for or what are you looking to do with this information ?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323137?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 12:46:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b225c3ad-0210-4fdc-8faa-6bb528fae812</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a macro I have posted here before that will list ref attachments from select folder &amp;nbsp;it opens them in non graphic mode so its pretty fast at processing entire directories is public domain but dont take out the creators name please.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Then it saves a report to txt file format .. you can then open in excel or use &amp;nbsp;excelhook file with programming &amp;nbsp;provided and see the listing including if ref is attached but not turned on off .. unfortunately doesnt show nesting but it if the nested ref is in the same folder it lists the ref file references so with excel you can work out which are the nestings..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;only other draw back is you have to open at least one microstation file session so it can be empty and no refs just so you can run the macro..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It works pretty well and has readme included...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it will process an entire directory just by selecting any file in that folder and it write the &amp;nbsp;output list to that folder so you can go folder by folder one folder at a time..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still very very fast &amp;nbsp;even if its mstn basic... Say if anyone can redo this in vba I&amp;#39;d love acopy as my vba skill isnt up to the task....&lt;a href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/listRefs.zip"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../listRefs.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323102?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2015 06:37:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:78cdd501-996c-4f59-b897-231db6805977</guid><dc:creator>Jan Šlegr</dc:creator><description>Hi,&lt;br /&gt;
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I think the answer will be different if you have or your need to work with one level of references only or there are several levels of references with live nesting used.&lt;br /&gt;
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If the first level is what you need, because there is no live nesting used or you don&amp;#39;t take care about deeper levels, you can start MicroStation with -O1 argument (ustation.exe -O1). In this mode references are not processed, so the opening is pretty fast, but the directly attached references are still displayed in References dialog as not found (in red color). Don&amp;#39;t mix up this mode with more often used -O mode, because when only -O is used, the references are not displayed at all in MicroStation.&lt;br /&gt;
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If you need to work with live nesting and several levels of (sub)references, in my opinion there is no other solution than to open the file in a standard way, because if live nested subreferences should be displayd in GUI, their master files have to be read and analysed as this information is not stored in the root model.&lt;br /&gt;
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An alternative way is to use Teigha library from Open Design Alliance to create own application to process the files, but I guess it&amp;#39;s not what are you looking for now.&lt;br /&gt;
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With regards,&lt;br /&gt;
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  Jan&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323034?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 16:03:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1b54d1d4-5b8c-497a-a5b8-b15b4cc4bab9</guid><dc:creator>Mara Manconi</dc:creator><description>You could use this wiki article: &lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/determine-attached-references-without-starting-microstation"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../determine-attached-references-without-starting-microstation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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regards&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323021?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 15:05:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ace43b02-5a7c-4be1-bbbd-a4ee82a8a098</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>Could you give some more details as to why you need this ?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323019?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 15:00:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:28e1d892-ddc7-470d-9e30-58cb2d2d9b24</guid><dc:creator>Carl Myhill</dc:creator><description>This thread has some information that might be of interest. &lt;a href="http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/273/p/102363/305196#305196"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../305196&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: See attached references of DGN file without opening it in Microstation</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/323015?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 14:51:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0658475e-cd14-4a6b-8c0b-c4c2e9f4a72c</guid><dc:creator>Frank Klein</dc:creator><description>Try to load Microstation with   -O  (omit to load references). I don&amp;#39;t know yet if you will see the not loaded references within the Reference Manager.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>