We would love to have the DGN (Bentley) file format fully supported in Newforma Viewer.  I’ve only taken some quick looks at our files, but at the very least, fonts and dimensions are not being displayed properly.  I can provide test cases.

Good morning,

We would like to take you up on your offer to send along some test case files.  Please send along your files to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and identify this discussion on the Newformant along with your Newformant user name so we can easily identify the case coming in.

Thank you for your offer!

Marge

This issue is related to the fact that Microstation uses User, Site or system variables to load the individual fonts, they are not embedded into the file.  For instance, if I open a DGN with Microstation that doesn’t have the client specific user interface the Font’s wont’ be correct.  or the custom linetypes.  This is can prove to be a problem even in Microstation alone.  We have had success using Bentley View to view DGN files but we had to figure out how to edit the User workspace to load the client specific symbol files.  If you only have a single client, you could figure out how to edit that in Bentley View and make that your default viewer for DGN files.

You’re right, point taken. I doubt Newforma developers would be interested in replicating Microstation workspaces to somehow resolve all this (and that’s assuming users would even know which workspace components to select - and our users would make that a real challenge)!!