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

  • It sounds like the engineers that may have produced these files from their version of MicroStation V8 may have renamed the extension for their own purposes. If these files are listing as '3D' I would try to rename the extension to .dgn to see if they will open in the version of MicroStation you are using. Whether the file is a V7 or V8 DGN the software will advise you on opening. It would then be suggested to convert the files to a V8 DGN if they are the old V7 format.

    Regards
    Andrew Bell
    Technical Support
    Bentley Systems

  • Thanks Andrew,

    I  currently don't have a version of MicroStation, but will try the trial version and see if they open.

    regards

    Paul

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