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TR

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Microstation & Image files.
« on: March 14, 2004, 09:51:42 AM »
Does anyone know how Microstation handles raster image files?

The company I work for is bidding a job that requires we submit all our drawings in Microstation format. This isn't a problem for regular AutoCAD files because we can buy a program that will convert our drawings to Microstation. However, we have a great deal of standard drawings that are in .tiff format that we insert into AutoCAD for batch plotting purposes. How does Microstation handle this?


Any help would be greatly appriciated.
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Dent Cermak

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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2004, 11:09:14 AM »
Why not just send the DGN files and the TIF files and tell them which TIF goes with which DGN ? Let them insert the TIF's themselves. Surely they can handle that.
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2004, 05:39:32 PM »
This is for mo-town, and if history is any idication they don't take to kindly to things like that. They want everything perfect when they receive it.
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2004, 05:55:44 PM »
Quote from: Tim Riley
This is for mo-town, and if history is any idication they don't take to kindly to things like that. They want everything perfect when they receive it.


Then you don't want to use any kind of conversion.  We've used several including MSTA itself for attempting conversions and it just doesn't convert cleanly.  There's always a something.

We do the work in whatever format they client desires the end product.  If it's autocad, use autocad, if it's msta, use msta.

Anyone remember Usta?

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But to answer your question about images, Msta does images reasonbly well, but the best bet on attempting to convert them out of ACAD is buy MSTA V8 and open the DWG's straight into MSTA.

Bentley used to provide evaluation versions of their program free.  It ran for 20 min. and then ended, so you had to work in 20 min intervals.  If you can still get a copy, that would be a great way to test the conversion quality.
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TR

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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2004, 06:31:30 PM »
Nice...maybe I can get them to buy a seat of microstation.  :shock:
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Dent Cermak

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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2004, 07:52:41 PM »
'course if the client is using Mikeystation V8, there should be no problem in sending him dwg files and letting him just open them.
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« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2004, 11:30:56 AM »
I have used image files, it handles them
like as a large picture on a white background.
The background does not print when you go to do so.
But this also depends on what version of
msta they are using.

p.s.
To Cadaver Yes unfortunately I worked on
usta for 3.5 years
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