Read and Write to DGN

[mark.d.caldwell]

Will AutoCAD 2006 read and write DGN files from Microstation

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Please note I've *moved* this thread from the New Users Forum to this one as I believe it would be better served here.

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Thanks, Mike

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[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Simple answer no.

You would need to look at something like Autodesk Map 3D

Have a good one, Mike

[gordon.hope]

Plain Brown Autocad won't - however if you contact the source of your DGN - Microstation will quite happily wite a DWG (V8.5 will write a 2004 or earlier)

We run both in our office (with only very minor compatibility issues)

Although given the choice in which application to do a drawing - Autocad wins in my book, to many clicks required in the other to do the simplest of tasks

[cwade]

Ok, we have both Microstation and Autocad, when our Civil Engineer opens an AutoCAD drawing in Microstation, as he does not know AutoCAD, the file after he has closed it and we try working on it in AutoCAD again will always crash AutoCAD, we always have to end up wblocking the drawing out to a new one.