Licensing options for this format begin with FME Professional Edition.
FME provides a reader for Design files used by the Bentley® Map, MicroStation, and Intergraph Interactive Graphics Design System (IGDS).
This format is an extension of the Bentley Microstation Design format. This chapter assumes familiarity with Microstation Design files, and the Bentley Microstation Design format.
For more information on Design file support in FME, please see the Bentley Microstation Design format documentation.
This format reads a XFM Feature focused representation of the XFM data found in Design files which are associated with the Bentley Map application. The XFM data in design files represent an instance of XFM feature and property information as a part of a Bentley Map project. The Bentley Map project defines a schema for XFM features, and the properties of those features, as well as the domains for those properties among other things.
The XFM Design Reader interprets this XFM data and merges the XFM feature properties present with the related graphical elements in the Design file. This results in a schema which includes the XML properties for each XFM Feature, and data features which have XFM properties values and graphics that together represent XFM feature instances. This is done with the limitation that XFM features which are composed of complex elements will only be represented by either the complex element or the components.
Alternatively, the DGN V8 Reader has been enhanced to support reading XFM data stored by representing XFM data as separate graphics and properties features. The DGN V8 Writer has been enhanced to write data which has been produced by either the DGN V8 Reader or this XFM Design Reader. In either case when writing, care should be taken that transformation of XFM data does not violate the overall coherency with the Bentley Map project. See the Microstation Design Format for more information. Note that XFM features which are composed of complex elements may not be represented completely enough by the reader to be reconstructed identically by the DGN V8 Writer.
Bentley Map XFM Design Reader Parameters