Hi Ashley,
the article mentioned by Andrew is pretty good.
More general approach how to make your migration from AutoCAD to MicroStation knowledge smoother is to take DWG file you know, open it in MicroStation and to check how it looks like and…
Field is a special kind of TextNode. We can use Drop tool (just need to turn on Complex toggle button) to drop Field to normal text. Please try. Regards, YongAn
As Jon and Jan mention, to properly interpret contents of a DGN file, you MUST open it -- there is no alternative. There are two interpretations of "opening" or "loading" DGN files... one is in a MicroStation graphics session, where you view/create/edit…
Hi,
We have been having problems with our linestyles not displaying in dwg true view (and AutoCad).
After exporting dgn > dwg we generally open the resultant dwg in dwg TrueView2011 to check that our client will see the file as we expect them to…
Hi Tom,
Since you mention that the dwg files are flattened and considered to be 2D, did you also set the Options to open these files in MicroStation and behave as 2D only? See picture below.
If those options are not set, MicroStation will assume the…
I feel your pain Myles but there is no substitute for training and CAD standards.
I too was drawing board trained...I was in mid 30s when I started using microstation and computers were still very new... now I'm in late 50s and have used mstn for more…
Unknown said: ...problem being created by new Bentley programmers not being aware of old functionality.
Well in this case I was both aware of the old behavior and hardly a new programmer...but ok. :)
Please post a dgn so I can see a real-world test…
I second and third that George.. only 25 years for me and I'm still here looking to learn new stuff and I still go to training and buy books and scour the internet for more but always first point of call is the help file then google then my hard copy…
Unknown said: When I go back to open the drawing, I see the preview as if nothing is wrong and there is a size to the file, but there are no objects in the file.
The preview you see is the bitmap created from the last good save of the file. This is…
Please be aware that Bentley Redline software is not compatible with Windows 7, and is not supported.
Bentley Redline has been replaced with Bentley Navigator.
Information on this can be found here:
www.bentley.com/.../ProjectWise+Navigator