AutoCAD Civil 3D :: MicroStation Cells Replaced By PAT File
Jun 18, 2012
I'm in the process of assisting a client implement Civil 3D into their work environment. Up to this point they have been MicroStation users. They have now seen the power of Civil 3D and are making the move. However, they're not yet Civil 3D experts and they still have some projects in MicroStation that need to be completed.
So in a project in MicroStation they are trying to place a pattern (similar to a hatch pattern in ACAD) into an area but the software has stopped looking for the MicroStation cell file (I believe that's what it's called) and has now started looking for the AutoCAD acad.pat file. This has only started happening on any computer that has Civil 3D installed.
Where that search path is located within MicroStation so I can reset it? Until this is resolved they've halted further installs of Civil 3D.
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Apr 12, 2013
A co-worker had a copy of a handy little guide called "Lynn Allen's Tips and Tricks for AutoCAD 2012". I think she (or another co-worker) got it at AU.
On page 33 under the heading "DGN Support", it says the following:
Complex linetypes are now maintained! To ensure that custom linetypes are displayed, copy the corresponding .rsc files to the support path...........
The way I read that, Acad will read the RSC file and display linetypes from it. Is that true? Does it only work when I'm looking at a DGN file? Or can I use the RSC file with my dwg file? I'd test it myself but I don't have access to any MicroStation files.
If Acad can read the RSC file directly, then I don't see why the linetypes can't be used in a dwg file. AND that being the case, I also don't see why an Autodesk product can't be created to WRITE these RSC files. As far as I'm concerned MicroStation's custom linestyles is so much more advanced than Acad's linetypes.
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May 8, 2012
I have a client that required us to give them a surface that they could load into microstation. I have version c3d2010. I gave them a land xml file. When they uploaded it into their program, which I believe is inroads they said the contours it generation for the surface looks great in the middle, but the edges it seems to have dropped the elevations to zero.
I did make a boundary to go around the surface to clean up any errant triangulation lines. The polyline I used is at elevation zero. I don't know if this is causing that? The client thinks the inroads is forcing the edges to be elev zero. She has limited knowledge of land xml files and has never used them till now.
Something to change on her end or is it my polyline causing this?
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Nov 5, 2012
Creating a CTB file to mimic a Microstation pen table? I have a client supplied *.tbl (an intergraph pen table file I believe) and how to generate a CTB that will behave similarly (ie. plot nearly the same)..
I can open the *.tbl file in a text editor and it just looks like a bunch of "if, then" statements related to line weights and pattern files....
I have already created a template with the same layers/levels, colors, linewights, etc... (and can convert everything to dgns), but now I need to figure out how to get similar plotted results from both sets of drawings (the dwg and the dgn..)
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May 2, 2011
Is there a tool in Microstation that converts .dgn to .dwg without any loss of styles, lineweights, etc?
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Dec 17, 2012
I attached DGN file in dwg, the same way of attaching any exrefrence. I would like to make changing the this attached file. It does not respond as block or xref.
How can I edit this DGN in the AutoCAD?
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Oct 22, 2013
I'm mainly work in 3D software (C4D, 3Ds Max). I have a client that wants to do high end traffic renderings. They have supplied me with the Infrastructure Design Suite 2014.
I received an old Microstation file from them, which I have then brought in to Civil 3D. I would like to add surfaces to this file so then I can export to 3Ds Max, and use Civil View to incorporate the design, and then traffic simulation data from VISSIM.
I have researched the entire work flow, the only thing holding me up is adding the surfaces to this Microstation file. It seems this is maybe not very common as I am having a hard time finding any tutorials or documentation on the internet.
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May 22, 2012
When I copy or move an object in a file converted from Microstation to Autocad 2012 the system freezes or slows down to a crawl. If I redraw the drawing in Autocad it works fine. I have a lot of drawings converted from Microstation and I don't need to be redrawing them all.
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Jul 19, 2013
I have a drainage structure table for a leaching system. I used some expressions to calculate some of the leaching pool values for the Top Of Rings etc. When the expression is false I get a zero. The expression work as expected, and I anticipated manually wiping out the false value, but when I wipeout or solid mask the values in MS they don't line up in the view port. How to effectively wipeout structure table cells?
Civil 3D 2012 & 2013
HP Z210 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E31240 @ 3.30 Hz
12 GB Ram
64 Bit Win7 OS
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Jul 19, 2013
I copied a pdf filed into the same folder as the ai file and then when I tried to open the ai file it opened as the pdf.
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Sep 27, 2012
Some colors such as yellow are being replaced with other colors in the CMYK palette.
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Aug 23, 2012
I am a landscape architect, and have used autocad for the past three years, and I am also familiar with microstation, which I used at a previous job. My question is primarily for the users that are familiar with both products.
Unlike much of the drafting I have done in architecture (which is often straight lines and 90 angles), landscape architecture and land planning often requires long sweeping curves that lead into tangent arcs, and or lines. Microstation has a brilliant arc tool that allows one to create beautiful curves that are always tangent. The arc tool also allows placement of the next curve anywhere, as opposed to snapping to an end point. Is there a way to do the described actions in Autocad?
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Mar 21, 2012
Is there a way to convert a .dgn to a .dwg without microstation?
-I have read that you can xref a dgn in a dwg but this did not work. civil3D simply does not recognize the dgn extension in any way shape or form ....that i have found.
THE LONG VERSION AS TO WHY:
I have both a dgn and a dwg of the same thing, only difference being the dgn has colored layer linework and lineweights etc. for entites on the same layer. The .dwg is just thousands of white lines on various layers.
to make it easier id like ot be able to have the colors to at least quick select stuff to move to their own layers seperately. rather then have multiple entites on the same layer that are in no way related to each other.
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Feb 6, 2013
So we have now been told by the state that all of our right of way maps must be done (finished) in microstation. We have solely been autocad users for the last 15 years. We purchase microstation, and I immediately hate it! So, the owner wants to know if we can convert back and forth. I did some quick converting but seems the textstyles are the major problems.
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Dec 7, 2005
I am not a CAduser, but someone who is managing a CAD project whereby we need to covert the files to Microstation. My AutoCAD person has limited experiece doing this so I thought I would turn to you for your expertise.
I've read that you can convert AutoCAD files to .dxf and import into Microstation but will that keep the integrity of the file? As you cannot covert directly from one to the other because fonts, line weights, etc. don't translate well.
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Sep 22, 2010
I'm trying to automate importing Microstation files into AutoCad (and then doing interesting things with them). I'm stuck on the import, as it keeps throwing an "Invalid Argument Exception".
I've thrown empty strings, "hello world" strings, ensured that the string points to a valid file, ensured that the string points to a valid Microstation file... for the scale factor, I've thrown constants, symbolic constants, variable doubles... and where I think the error lies, the insertion point, I've thrown Points, Point 2d's, Point 3d's, arrays of integers, arrays of doubles, and Acad Points, and all of the above even cast as objects.
Supposedly, the signature for import is:
object IAcadDocument.Import(string FileName, object Insertion Point, double ScaleFactor)
but the <object Insertion Point> is throwing me... what kind of object is wanted? The following is a complete working program; you'll just have to add the two autocad references.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
[code]....
(Obviously the intent is not to use hard coded file names, these are for debug purposes. I'm also running as a Windows project rather than a Console project, but the exception is the same.)
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Jun 17, 2013
I am working on my company template. We are trying to keep it as close to INDOT standards as we can. Indot uses microstation and provides many files for microstation users. I converted one of the files to a .DWG and impoted all the linetypes to my template. This had a lot of bad side effects.
How to extract the actual code for the Linetypes, so that i can simply re-write a code as autocad wants it and then import?
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Apr 4, 2012
I'm trying to OPEN some legacy MicroStation drawings through AutoCAD. I have done this with nearly 400 files thus far but there are a dozen or so that are coming back with an error message reading 'YOU HAVE A SELECTED AN INVALID OR UNSUPPORTED DGN FILE'. I can look at these through Bentley Viewer, but do not have a full version of MicroStation to try and fix things.
How to fix things via AutoCAD?
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May 30, 2012
Everytime I try to open files created from Microstaion but saved as CAD it blue screens my computer! I have a newer laptop with Windows 7. However, an older computer in our office with Windows XP can open these files with no problem? Both computers have AutoCAD LT 2012.
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Apr 17, 2012
I have a previously converted Microstation drawing in Autocad 2011. In the conversion all blocks were given unique names. I would like to edit similar blocks globally. Many of the Microstation blocks look like the standard blocks I use. Does a Lisp routine exist that can select similar Microstation blocks and give them a single name?
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Nov 9, 2011
We are a water utility and have thousands of detail drawings of service taps and hydrant connections (maybe 11,000 total). These are in the old Microstation J format. Each drawing is divided into a top half and bottom half. The bottom half of the drawing is the actual drawing portion.
The top half of the drawing is text that comes out of an Old Oracle database, into Microsoft Word 2000 through mail merge then is copied and pasted into the top portion of the card. Newer drawings done like this and opened in AutoCAD have the top portion identified as an OLE object (embedded object), while the older drawings just look like a drawing in the top.
I'm looking to update the system to ArcGIS and AutoCAD. The data will be moved to a Microsoft Access database (probably later SQL Server), and I want to convert all the old Microstation drawings into an AutoCAD format. ArcGIS will provide the basemap and be linked to the database, with clickable hyperlinks to open the AutoCAD drawings. I would like to be able to keep the bottom drawing half while changing the top half of each drawing to reflect updated data in the database. If this can be automatically updated, that would be awesome.
One is the best program to automatically bulk convert the drawings from Microstation J to AutoCAD (I have 2011). Also, I'm looking for a method to display the text from the database in the top portion of the card using either mail merge with AutoCAD or some automatic method of pulling the info out of the database. Can I just copy-paste this info into AutoCAD as we did with Microstation or is there a better way?
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Jun 26, 2013
I was editing a block, I saved it and closed the file. When I reopened the file, everything in model space was replaced by the block.
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Aug 12, 2013
I am trying to merge two cells in one but i cannot find proper method to do that.
Example:
I am creating a table with dynamic number of rows and columns:
for (int i = 3; i < tbRight.NumRows; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < tbRight.NumColumns; j++)
{
if (num2 == numCircles - 1)
{
Cell c = new Cell(tbRight, i, j);
c.TextHeight = 450;
tbRight.SetTextString(i, j, (num2 +
[Code]...
First row of the table is the header and i have two free rows with two columns each. I want to merge all of them to look like one row.
On the other hand, is it possible to align the text in the table in the middle and also the vertical align to be in the middle.
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When creating a new iPart with iMates and publish this to Content Center everything is working well. Our server and workstations are up-to-date, so I think this is a "bug". Maybe Autodesk fixes in the next update.
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working at new job with 2d but some how properties where i can change text width is replaced with 3D visual. how can i change this back to 2d properties?
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Cells in second column from the left are set as data dd/MM/yyyy, so when I change revision I write current data and it give correct format.
The problem is that every time I change layout and come back (or every time I open the drawing), data in empty cells were set to 01/01/1970...but I want them empty.
If I clean them, I clean also the data format.
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I want to link individual mtext objects in AutoCad to cell contents in an Excel file (like a datalink for a table, but I can't use a table in this instance). Any thoughts?
If it is not possible it is not a huge deal although hopefully the design doesn't change in the future as it will be a pain to update all these manually
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My code so far:
Dim TableObj As AcadTable
Dim EntObj As AcadEntity
Dim i, j As Long
Dim LtCol As AcadAcCmColor
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