Hello Microstation Users and perhaps John Gooding,
In the past, 13 years ago, I was a Microstation user.
13 years ago I did make many mvba routines.
Today, I am thinking about making vba routines for AutoCAD, but I would like to get access to my mvba routines from 13 years ago.
I think that many of my functions could be reused from Microstation to AutoCAD.
My problem is that I don't have a Microstation license since 13 years, all of my mvba coding did become a black box for myself.
My question: How can I convert my mvba files to ascii ?
To be clear I am not interested to upload my mvba files here, to get ascii files....
My files are still copyright protected.
(For advise, perhaps I am doing something wrong, but almost every word that I type is giving a type error.
The website doesn't understand that I am Dutch typing English. Just terrible.)
With Regards,
Harry Stegeman (From the Netherlands)
This thread might help.
But to answer the question, you can open the file with a next level editor like Notepad++ and simply save as a txt. But that does not work well. You might try saving it as a lisp, which I believe is an Autodesk format.
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Bob Rayner said:You might try saving it as a LISP
LISP is a programming language, whose origins, syntax and idioms are quite unlike VBA.
Bob Rayner said:LISP I believe is an Autodesk format
It's a mystery why AutoDESK thought that LISP would be a useful candidate to add programming capability to a CAD tool.
Bob Rayner said:open the [.mvba] file with a next level editor
.mvba
A .mvba file uses proprietary Microsoft encoding. The result of saving as text is gobbledegook.
Harry Stegeman said: How can I convert my mvba files to ascii ?
In the VBA IDE project manager, you can export each VBA module to a text file. Each text file contains readable VBA source code.
Harry Stegeman said:I am not interested to upload my mvba files here
Then you'll have to obtain a copy of MicroStation V8 or CONNECT, or take your .mvba files to a friendly MicroStation user who can let you work on their computer for a while.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
It is definitely possible but as it can be used to bypass password protection better is to use Microstation.
You can get 7-day trial. Try to access softwaredownloads.bentley.com with you old profile.