Hi,
I work a lot with mapping to authorities, and they have many requirements regarding line styles.
One requirement is to have line styles that are not "broken" at breakpoints, you want the line style complete throughout the mapped line.
When using "Run through corners" in MS (v8i and CONNECT) the setting is not retained when exporting to dwg, how come? Does anyone know any solution to this? How can I get the line style to maintain "run through corners" in to my exported file.Kind Regards,Elin
It's just an 'appearance' problem that some of the authority's technical reviewers are bothered by. And I mostly wonder if anyone has experienced the same problem and if anyone has found a solution to this? Maybe with the help of FME or something else.
At first provide some small example of DWG and DGN where "Run through corners" work or at least some screenshots would be nice because honestly it is hard to understand problem you are dealing with.In MS there is option to shift linestyles which for example is not possible in DWG as linestyles are always centered so for shorter lines you sometimes need a short version of linestyle or create version were first pattern is short and then it is longer.
Elin Skoog said:nd we do get shx-files when we export to dwg, shx-files that we send to our custumers.
If you send SHX files to customers for each DGN you export already means you are doing it wrong because you allow Microstation to automatically generate SHX files from Microstation custom linestyles and not reuse AutoCAD LIN file with standardized SHX.
Here is 3 printscreens of same area, created from same dgn-file, open in MS CONNECT.
Original dgn-fil (3D)
- Line style works
- Run through corners works
Dwg-file (3D)
- Line styles dosnt show
- Run through corners does not work
Dwg-file (2D)
We often have to send 3D and 2D dwg-file just to get the line styles to work completely. It is some kind of problem with line styles and 3D files and thats know for authorities and our customers.
But as you can see "run through corners" does not work even in 2D dwg.
There is no such thing as 2D DWG not in way as MS 3D or 2D models. Better use Trueview DWG viewer to check how it looks in ACAD as checking files in Microstation may not show correctly as Microstation can find SHX or RSC files in local Workspace and show linestyles incorrectly.
Where are the corners? I do not see difference except one screenshot is missing linestyles for some reason.
If possible provide examples as DGN and DWG files so we can take a look.
When I mean 2D dwg-file I mean that it is first exported to a 2D dgn-file, then exported to a dwg-file.
If you look at the geen and blue lines, you can se the problem.
This prinsscreen is a 2D dwg shown i TrueViewer.