ImPLANT-I 2 Options

To translate a file with ImPLANT-I 2 technology, select the Version 2 radio-button, and choose the options you want in the Version Options tab, at the bottom left of the dialog.

• The Scale option lets you scale the imported geometry. A number larger than 1 makes the imported geometry bigger, and a number smaller than one makes the imported geometry smaller. This can be used to correct a model if the units in the DGN file are wrong, missing, or misinterpreted.

• The Shift (mm) options let you shift the whole model in E, N and/or U by the given numbers of millimetres. These can be used to position a model more conveniently, or simulate the MicroStation global origin.

• You can choose a Design database element name to be wrapped around the translated contents of each dgn file. The possibilities are ZONE, EQUIPMENT, STRUCTURE, VOLMODEL or no element.

• If you choose to have a top-level element for each file you may choose to have that element given a name based on the dgn filename.

• You can choose a Design database element name to be wrapped around the translated contents group of top-level MicroStation elements. The possibilities are EQUIPMENT, SUBEQUIPMENT, STRUCTURE, SUBSTRUCTURE, VOLMODEL, SVOLMODEL or no element. Note that certain combinations are invalid, for example, a STRUCTURE cannot own SUBEQUIPMENTS.

• You can choose the number of top-level MicroStation elements to put in each lower-level Design element. If the dgn file contains a large number of simple elements, then you may prefer to group them together into Design elements, but if there are fewer more significant elements, for example, Cells, you may prefer to have each top level element in a separate Design element.

• You may choose the number of messages to be written to the Output Summary and the Message file. The possibilities are Brief, Full or Debug. The last is very verbose, and is primarily intended to help AVEVA developers to investigate any issues with the translations of particular files.

• You may choose to vary the tolerances used when translating some of the DGN geometry. Coarse tolerance will give you a smaller, faster, but less precise model. Not all DGN geometry is affected by this setting.

• If you are using a unicode-enabled version of Marine/Design (12.1.1 or above) you may select the Unicode Output option. This will not normally be necessary, but if you wish to use the "with name" option on files with non-ASCII names it may make the element names and any error messages better. Do not use this option with older versions of Marine/Design.

• The Query DGN Info button opens each DGN file listed, and writes some summary information about each into the Output Summary.