CAD ADVICE
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Featured Dilemma:
DGN to DWG - Microstation to AutoCAD conversion
Hey Jim,

I am an obsessed  Microstation ferret girl, and messed around for HOURS solving this dilemma.  To make along story short:

In the Microstation file:
Pick
file export;
cgm out

It is awesome. If one roots around, (in the "cgm out" menu box), there are options to (tediously, for perfection) edit the translation tables to customize fonts, layers/levels, line styles etc...the translation tables are compatible  with AutoCad.

The .cgm can be easily imported into AutoCad, and amazingly enough,  into
a Word doc.  If  Word has a big enough cache, then the original Microstation drawing can actually be edited in Word, by double clicking
in the imported .cgm file.

P.S. You are cute and smart : )
Thanks for the site!
Jamie
[email protected]
I love Emails like this. Thanks for the TIP Jamie

Jim
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