2011

Table Of Contents
Design File Input Settings
Use this dialog box to set options when you import data from Microstation
Design. Options differ for importing DGN7 or DGN 8, and the order of the
items in the dialog may also change by version.
To import DGN files (page 409)
Click Home tab Data panel Import From Files.
NOTE Data you import becomes AutoCAD drawing objects in your map. To
convert the drawing objects to a geospatial format, see
Overview of Converting
and Exporting
(page 1405).
Group Elements By
Level
Group incoming objects by their DGN level. Only levels that contain
elements are imported.
Level Names
Group incoming objects by their DGN level name. Only levels that contain
elements are imported. This option is available for DGN 8 only.
Geometry
Group incoming objects by entity type.
Linkage Extraction
Extract MSLinks and FRAMME attribute linkage values from the DGN 7 file.
MSLink
Import up to three links per object for DGN 7. For each link, two fields are
added to the object data table: mslinks_n, which specifies the key value,
and entity_num_n, which specifies the table.
FRAMME
Add the following fields to the object data table: comp_count, comp_num,
dgnfile, feat_num, state_num, and ufid.
1734 | Chapter 25 Import Export Dialog Boxes