Basic Facilities or Teigha® Facilities
- Last UpdatedMar 06, 2026
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Not all the facilities of the Basic technology are currently available with Import-DGN Teigha® technology and so the technology is also included in the release. The section describes which facilities are supported by which technology, and in some case work-rounds or suggestions.
Future releases of may change some of this behavior.
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Teigha® facilities |
Basic facilities |
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Read dgn version 7 format files |
Yes |
Yes |
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Read dgn version 8 format files |
Yes |
No (it is possible in MicroStation to save as MicroStation V7 DGN files) |
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Create Design macros |
Yes |
Yes |
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Create Review model Files |
No (it is possible to import the model to a Design database, and export a Review model |
Yes |
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recognize Steel sections |
No |
Yes (with some limitations) |
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Translate B-Spline Surfaces |
Yes |
No |
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Translate Smart Solids |
Yes |
No |
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Translate Feature Solids |
No (in some cases a partial translation is made, and MicroStation has a "Convert to Solid" option which can convert a Feature Solid to a Smart Solid).) |
No |
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Translate Shared Cells |
Yes |
No |
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Make use of the MicroStation "Global Origin" |
No (a 3D shift may be applied during the translation to achieve the same effect) |
Yes |
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Exclude certain elements by type, colour or level |
No |
Yes |
There are some cases where the translation of MicroStation geometry differs between Basic facilities and Teigha® facilities. The Teigha® facilities do a more complete job but can translate somewhat fewer types of geometry into standard primitives. For example, some elements recognized as extrusions by Basic facilities may be translated as a facetted polyhedron in Teigha® facilities. However, it does translate others to a more compact and faster representation. Refer to Limitations, Warnings and Errors for further information.