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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

DGN to Geodatabase warning!!! Beware of Modelspace

If your DGN's have multiple model spaces you cannot use the Import from CAD tool in GIS. You must save as, or export from Microstation to DXF which then creates one DXF for each modelspace in the DGN. This is a bummer. But after getting the DGN linework and working with one of our Microstation guru's I found that you can batch convert DGN's making this whole process much less time-consuming. Now if only I had my modelbuilder DXF to File GDB, select centerlines and ROW impacts tool set up so folder structures would be intuitively created...

And how come there's no organizational structure level lower than the feature dataset, such as a feature subdataset or something?