waytovietnam Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 One of our upcoming projects will be to work with a client that uses Microstation. We are using AutoCAD 2002. I know Microstation can save to DWG format. I also am aware that Microstation views layers as levels and is only capable of 63 levels. Aside from these minimal issues I am wondering if there are any other issues I should be aware of. Are there any websites I can go to that review translation issues between these programs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisthenes Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 there is always Rhinoceros and the Intellicads witch open both formats DGNdirrect and DWGdirrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ingo Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I am not sure about the 63 levels, i think Bentley changed that in the past. Otherwise Microstation users can easily read and write AutoCAD files, without any translation needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 One of our upcoming projects will be to work with a client that uses Microstation. We are using AutoCAD 2002. I know Microstation can save to DWG format. I also am aware that Microstation views layers as levels and is only capable of 63 levels. Aside from these minimal issues I am wondering if there are any other issues I should be aware of. Are there any websites I can go to that review translation issues between these programs? 63 levels is not the limit. The correct limit is 4 billions. Should be enough for most users. You want to find out more? I recommend signing up at BE Communities, it's free, and this is where all the Microstation Experts/developers and users can be reached: http://communities.bentley.com There are a lot of forums, use the search tool, and you will probably find the forum that is dedicated to dwg-dgn related issues. PS: there is absolutely no need to buy Rhino or Intellicad to transfer files between Autocad and Microstation. This suggestion is nonsense (sorry, but it is!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisthenes Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 the demos are free not exactly sure how the layering works in microstation because i haven't used it but i clean up some ugly files from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Burns Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Don't blame the files it's usually the way people create them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat8iou Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 63 levels is not the limit. The correct limit is 4 billions. Should be enough for most users. The 63 limit was removed in V8 - which came out in 2001. Layers / levels work in a fairly similar way in both programs nowadays. MS gives easier control than Acad when dealing with Xref layers - e.g. you can quickly turn off the layer with the same name in all xrefs etc. Compatibility is fairly good generally, although there are some problems with 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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