Export Model as DGN

I would like to know how to export or save a model out of my dgn as a stand-alone dgn file.

  • You can do it several ways.

    1. Open the blank file, go to the models dialog and select the import model option, browse to the needed design file and select the needed model you wish to import.

    2. In the required model file go to file>save as - select DGN for the file type, go to the options button and in the "save as V8 Options", go to the filter tab. In the filter tab look at the models button. This will allow you to select the model you want to save out.

    HTH

    Timothy Hickman

    CADD Manager | CADD Department

    timothy.hickman@colliersengineering.com

    Main: 877 627 3772| 

    1000 Waterview Drive Suite 201 | Hamilton, New Jersey 08691

  • Is not working in OpenRoads CONNECT. I have tried using 'Save as' and 'Export - V8 dgn', then selecting desired models, but the export still contains the default model that I am trying to eliminate.

    If it makes any difference in the files, the models I am wanting to NOT export contain a geometry and corridor with an associated 3D model. Even after deleting the geometry and corridor (from a copy) then I can delete the 2D model of the alignment and the 3D is empty, still stays in the exported file.

    And importing the models into a new dgn will still leave me with an unwanted "Default" model.

    All this worked great in SS-10...

  • 1. Open the blank file, go to the models dialog and select the import model option, browse to the needed design file and select the needed model you wish to import.

    2. In the required model file go to file>save as - select DGN for the file type, go to the options button and in the "save as V8 Options", go to the filter tab. In the filter tab look at the models button. This will allow you to select the model you want to save out.

    1. Copy your DGN file and give it a new name
      • Open the file with MicroStation
      • Open the Models dialog and delete those you don't want
    still leaves me with an unwanted "Default" model

    Unfortunately the Default model cannot be deleted.  It can be renamed, but remains the default model.

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • Here's a neat trick. As you know, you can’t delete the default model, however…you can trick MicroStation by doing this:

     

    Do a File > Save As… > Options > Filter > Models.  Now select only the model that you’d like and save the new file.  If only one model is selected, it will become the new master model.

  • Understood, normally the save-as or export would let me choose the models I want and unselect the models I do not want, did this quite often in SS-10. But when doing this today in ORD Connect, I am still getting the models that were unselected being copied to the output file. One of them is the (renamed) default model in the source (the 3D design for a roadway corridor), and the 2D model that I can delete is the corresponding 2D model to the 3D. It is the 3D model that is coming with the save-as or export that I am trying to unselect and leave out of the destination file...

    Ultimately I can reference in one of the desired models to a new blank DGN, then merge into master, followed by importing the other desired models. But trying to maintain the 2D-3D linked geometry alignment models from the original file will be lost by importing references, meaning I will still have to rebuild my alignment geometry definition in the new file. No work savings there.