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Bentley MicroStation Design (V8) Reader Parameters

Group Elements By

Specifies the overall structure of the schema and data for DGN file reading.

Element Options

The reader can be configured to output all the elements composing cells, or symbols. This is useful if the graphical representation of the Design file is to be preserved. This is true when, for example, a Design file is translated to a GIF image.

Attribute Options

Linkage Extraction

Linkage Extraction boxes allows you to extract MSLinks and/or FRAMME attribute linkage values from the Source Design File. Only the first three linkage values will be extracted.

Coordinate Units By

These parameters control the conversion between UORs in the Design file and FME coordinates. There are three possibilities: 

Override Global Origin

These parameters are usually used only when reading Design files that have bad header information. If FME detects a difference between these settings and those read from the Design file, a warning is output to the log file, and these settings take precedence.

Schema Attributes

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