trying to load MicroStation 95 drawings (pre-V8)

Hello All,

I am trying to help my son in law open plans for his house which was built in 2003.

He a copy of several files (I think from the builder), but they apparently cant load them into the versions of MicroStation which they are currently using.

I am happy to put the files up here, but judging from the names, they don't even look like cad files to me??

For what its worth, the file names are:

22114_p1.s1
22114_p1.sn1
22114_p1.sn2
22114.ecw
22114_.tit
22114_p1.dt1
22114_p1.dt2

Any ideas or suggestions?

regards

Paul Harper

former CAD developer

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  • There was a "ISADGN" command line app which allowed to scan and detect if it is DGN. As it works now only for v7 I renamed it to ISAV7DGN to avoid confusion. Tool attached.

    ISADGN Utility v1.0.0
    Usage: isadgn fileMask [-D -2 -3 -B -F -S]
            -D      - show Design files only    [all files]
            -2      - show 2D Design files only [all files]
            -3      - show 3D Design files only [all files]
            -Byn    - list files in Brief form  [normal]
            -Fyn    - list files in Full form   [normal]
            -Sn     - Show the file dimension   [yes]

    ISAV7DGN.zip

  • Hi Jon and Oto,

    Thanks for this. I contacted the original engineers and they said they were using v8 of MicroStation. ( Not sure if this is what they used to create the files, or what they tried to open the files with)

    I tried the isaV7DGN utility which gave the following results:

    ISAV7DGN.EXE 22*

    Design Directory of 22*

    22114.ecw [no]
    22114_.tit [3d]
    22114_p1.dt1 [3d]
    22114_p1.dt2 [3d]
    22114_p1.s1 [3d]
    22114_p1.sn1 [3d]
    22114_p1.sn2 [3d]

    7 Total files.
    6 Design files.

    What is my next step? Is there some way I could convert these files to a  format where I could produce a large PDF, or print out some paper plans?

    regards

    Paul Harper

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  • Hi Jon and Oto,

    Thanks for this. I contacted the original engineers and they said they were using v8 of MicroStation. ( Not sure if this is what they used to create the files, or what they tried to open the files with)

    I tried the isaV7DGN utility which gave the following results:

    ISAV7DGN.EXE 22*

    Design Directory of 22*

    22114.ecw [no]
    22114_.tit [3d]
    22114_p1.dt1 [3d]
    22114_p1.dt2 [3d]
    22114_p1.s1 [3d]
    22114_p1.sn1 [3d]
    22114_p1.sn2 [3d]

    7 Total files.
    6 Design files.

    What is my next step? Is there some way I could convert these files to a  format where I could produce a large PDF, or print out some paper plans?

    regards

    Paul Harper

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