How to Master a MicroStation to AutoCAD Conversion
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Frustrated with Converting Between DGN and DWG Files? (You're Not Alone.)
Conversion. It can be a real pain in the you know what. If you've used the built-in AutoCAD® or MicroStation® translator to convert from dgn files to dwg files (or vice versa), you know it can result in messy and potentially inaccurate output files. If you’ve suffered through the hours it takes to fix files after a translation was allegedly “completed," you know the struggle is real. You may have experienced:
Fonts in output files that don’t map correctly.
Element symbology with issues like incorrect line types (AutoCAD drawings) or line styles (MicroStation designs).
Line weight or color issues.
Wrong units in the output files causing incorrect sizes.
Special characters that display improperly.
Lost AutoCAD layers or MicroStation levels.
Unwanted levels or layers.
It's time for an easy conversion prep and clean-up tool. In fact, whether dgn conversion is your primary requirement or dwg conversion is what you're after, the Translation Manager™ software can resolve dgn to dwg conversion issues for you, back and forth, either way.
Converting Your CAD Files Made Easy
If you want to avoid the cost or delay of conversion services, Translation Manager is the answer. Translation Manager ensures CAD conversions are considerably easier and result in output files that come out the way you want — the first time — saving companies from spending untold hours correcting or redrawing files.
Translation Manager handles complex problems that platform-native translators alone cannot correct. Whether you're converting from dwg format to dgn format or vice versa, Translation Manager does it all for you on up to thousands of files at a time.
Imagine how much time you can save doing conversions on similar projects or on projects with similar standards by translating batches of AutoCAD or MicroStation files and organizing your conversion settings into easily reusable project files! That’s the kind of time-savings you get with this program.
Translation Manager’s pre-processing tools help you identify and isolate important data needed for successful conversions.
The post-processing tools in Translation Manager can make changes that Autodesk’s and Bentley’s built-in translators can't deal with. And, best of all, the Translation Manager application will do it all for you — quickly
and automatically.
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How Translation Manager Does This for You
Translation Manager saves all your translation settings in one place (a translation project) so you can re-use them later and keep different translation projects totally separate from one another.
Dwg file? Dgn file? It doesn't matter. Translation Manager provides tools to evaluate the CAD files you plan to convert. It can even modify them to prepare them for the best possible conversion.
After that, Translation Manager walks you through the configuration of the process so that you know what each setting does and how it affects your results. In this way, anyone can get a top-quality translation without having to be a CAD conversion expert.
Once it’s all set up the way you need it, simply save all these settings into your translation project (super easy) and click a single button to convert all the files in your project.
The final step cleans up the now-translated CAD files and makes any number of post-processing modifications to put the finishing touches to your drawing or design. MicroStation dgn flawlessly converted to AutoCAD dwg? Or vice versa? You bet.
What Our Customers Say
“I translate from MicroStation to AutoCAD for internal use within our company. I do the CAD conversion so that everyone can work with the files. Doing CAD translations manually took about 2 hours for each drawing. Using Axiom’s Translation Manager, it takes about 2 minutes or less — for the entire project. I converted 400 MicroStation to AutoCAD drawings for our last project. Without Translation Manager, it would have taken me about a month of full-time work. I can’t even say how much money this tool has saved my company. Your Tech Support was responsive and helped right away, but truly, I didn’t even need that much help, it was very user-friendly to set up.”
Andre Ralha
Drafter
John P. Picone Inc.
“We used Translation Manager to translate all of our legacy files. They are all done now. We did a large amount of translations, about thirty thousand files. We did character mapping and a variety of other things with them. We had a lot of files that had CIT raster files attached to the MicroStation DGNs that we translated to TIFF files attached to AutoCAD DWGs. With Translation Manager we were able to fine tune the settings so the raster images in the translated files would display properly (rather than squished to the side). We were able to fine-tune and define a number of the settings to get it just how we wanted it. We were able to do big batches at a time. This project wouldn’t have gotten done without this tool. We are very happy with Axiom’s tech support and the products you produce.”
