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DGN files…!!!????
Hi there all you “cowsters”
I’m aware my question might be out of content just a bit here but I’ll go for it anyway:I’ve been contacted to create a short video for a project here in my island: the construction of a railroad transportation system.
All CAD drawings are provided on Microstation DGN format. Does anybody know of a utility to import those into Freehand, Corel… and then onto AE? I’m planning to shoot some aerial views and compose them with the CAD drawings but I just dont know how to get the DGN files into something I can work with.
Thanks in advance!!!
Chemix Ferreiro
Canary IslandsBUNKER studio
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Should I post to a different forum…?
BUNKER studio
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I guess it might but… will you care to explain to me how I can do it?
Thanks
BUNKER studio
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Hey Dave, I never meant to sound “rushy” & certainly apologize if I ever made you feel like that. I’ve been googleing all evening for a simple .DGN viewer that runs on MAC os and… nothing! It seems this particular file type goes well with WINDOWS but not a whole a lot of options for MAC
Again, I apologize for maybe giving the impression of hustleing but that wasn’t my intention at all
I’ll keep on searching
Thanks
BUNKER studio
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The only safe road is to have the company responsible for the CAD files make some PDFs or TIFFs for you. Pretty much all such programs can create those two formats these days. Everything else is pointless – you’ll be working your ass off to get it right and then you will find out last minute that some important measurenment info fell between the cracks during your own conversion attempts. Don’t accept any excuses on their part – unless they can give you the money for a Microstation license along with proper hardware plus some training on how to use it, the responsibility is entirely theirs. I have such talks regularly for my 3D work and if theey want pretty pictures, they have to cooperate as much as they may want to avoid the additional work. And yes, Dave is right: Be patient. While you were posting, I was nowhere near a computer and ironing my clothes. ;O).
Mylenium
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> All CAD drawings are provided on Microstation DGN format. Does anybody know of a utility to import those into Freehand, Corel… and then onto AE? I’m planning to shoot some aerial views and compose them with the CAD drawings but I just dont know how to get the DGN files into something I can work with.< I've had weird requests from our CADCAM and GIS people like this. I tell them what I can use and they give me the appropriate file formats. It takes lots of patience because even if the understand PDF or TIFF or JPEG, they do not understand pixel aspect ratio, video resolution, image size limitations and video color specs. We have also mapped aerial footage onto computer drawings but the results have always been terrible and it took forever. We had to very carefully stabilize the helicopter footage and that required extensive masking and severe cropping. I have one other practical suggestion: Minimize the on-screen movement. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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ThankU all for the suggestions. I’ll for sure have a talk with the CAD people asking for a different format drawings becouse not even Canvas X ( a powerful graphics translator program ) handles Bentley’s V8 .DGN files…
Thanks again
Chemix Ferreiro
“Editing in Paradise”
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