Greetings,
With the upcoming deprecation of the U.S. Survey Foot, I am thinking this is a question that may be asked quite a few times. But I actually have need to ask it now. My question is: I have an ORD Workspace in Survey Feet. I want to convert it to be International Feet, but otherwise be identical. I know the seed files would need to be modified, and the units.def file also. Is there anything else that would need to be changed? Cells and Civil Cells would technically need to change, but since they have local origins? There will be a difference but one so small it won't be noticed (it's not like going from feet to meters or vice versa). Thus, I'm thinking the cells and civil cells would be okay-as-is. Is there anything else that would need to be revised in a units conversion of an ORD workspace?Thanks for any input!
As you have mentioned that the two important steps are to change the working unit in the seed file and change the unit.def ,To change the unit.def it can be used in combination with MS_CUSTOMUNITDEF, check out the following link, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/13267/control-the-working-units-used-in-files Now as we talk ahead about the civil cell and cell file in reference If all the cells are on the true scale, it will get change as per the set working units, also if the .dgn files and external references need to convert scale at the same time you can use the batch converter, It is bit critical process but as you said that you are not changing the units drastically from imperial to metric, still I have provided the link to use the batch converter, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/batch-process-series-part-1-updating-your-dgn-files https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/batch-process-series-part-2-it-s-all-about-the-key-in-s
following is the link of key-in which batch converter needs to run change of working unit, communities.bentley.com/.../change-working-units-for-a-number-of-files-in-batch-process
The conversion between 1 US survey feet is 1.000002 International Feet, considering if the precision not up to 6 digits. no cells or SI units will be affected.
If I left anything in the above information, I have attached the FAQ for working units, let me know if you need anything else, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8933/working-units-faq
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Avdhoot Kirpekar said:Now as we talk ahead about the civil cell and cell file in reference If all the cells are on the true scale, it will get change as per the set working units, also if the .dgn files and external references need to convert scale at the same time you can use the batch converter, It is bit critical process but as you said that you are not changing the units drastically from imperial to metric, still I have provided the link to use the batch converter, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/batch-process-series-part-1-updating-your-dgn-files https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/batch-process-series-part-2-it-s-all-about-the-key-in-s following is the link of key-in which batch converter needs to run change of working unit, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/15332/change-working-units-for-a-number-of-files-in-batch-process
Now as we talk ahead about the civil cell and cell file in reference If all the cells are on the true scale, it will get change as per the set working units, also if the .dgn files and external references need to convert scale at the same time you can use the batch converter, It is bit critical process but as you said that you are not changing the units drastically from imperial to metric, still I have provided the link to use the batch converter, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/batch-process-series-part-1-updating-your-dgn-files https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/b/microstation_blog/posts/batch-process-series-part-2-it-s-all-about-the-key-in-s
following is the link of key-in which batch converter needs to run change of working unit, https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/15332/change-working-units-for-a-number-of-files-in-batch-process
Please check the links.
The first two links go to the same page. The last link does not work.
Rod WingSenior Systems Analyst
Thank you Rod, I have corrected all the links.