promis.e catalog conversion (MS to ACAD)

I dont know if anyone else has noticed this yet, and I'm not even sure when this became an issue (In what release), but have you tried to export a promis.e Microstation Catalog for ACAD, then restore it into promis.e ACAD? I have encountered a very interesting show stopper. Everything looks fine until I try to either use a symbol, where you encounter a DB error and the symbol doesnt insert, or you try to modify a symbol in the symbol creation wizard. Most of the symbols in the creation wizard preview with abnormally large connection points, and when the symbol opens, A DB error is thrown, and the symbol contains no Connection point text. Every step you try to go to in the wizard then re-opens the symbol in CAD. The connection points exist in the Connection point step, but there is nothing in the connection point editor. I am sure there is more to this but I wont go on any more. This is a real issue for us as we deliver catalogs to clients in ACAD format, but create them in MS. I wanted to know if anyone else could test it out and see if they have the same issue or not. Also if there are already ST's in the system for this exact issue.
  • Thats great thanks Tani. In regards to the symbols not working at all, that seems to be isolated to me, but I can confirm that the error "unable to read write protected memory" is the error I was receiving. I never did check backwards compatibility, but I know that Chris did, so it is interesting that we are getting different results for the same problem. I will raise a service ticket and send through the catalogue. It isnt the best cat in the world as it is a bit of a tester for a client, but see if you can get any answers from it. Thanks again Tani.