Mastering MicroStation DGN: How to Integrate CAD and GIS
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The document provides an overview of integrating CAD and GIS systems, specifically using FME to link Bentley MicroStation with ESRI ArcGIS. It covers the challenges faced during data transfer, includes several integration demos, and highlights key ideas for both CAD-to-GIS and GIS-to-CAD transformations. The presentation concludes with resources for further learning and community engagement opportunities.
Mastering MicroStation DGN: How to Integrate CAD and GIS
- 1. Mastering MicroStation DGN: How to Integrate CAD and GIS
- 2. Evie Lapalme Technical Support Specialist Safe Software Jovita Chan Technical Support Specialist Safe Software Meet Our Team
- 3. Welcome to Livestorm. A few ways to engage with us during the webinar: Audio issues? Click this for 4 simple troubleshooting steps.
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- 5. Agenda 1 Introduction 2 Flash Demo 3 CAD to GIS 4 GIS to CAD 5 Conclusion 6 Resources 7 Q&A Agenda
- 7. Discover how FME simplifies your path to integrating Bentley MicroStation with Esri ArcGIS and beyond.
- 8. With FME, overcome the barriers to effective CAD-GIS integration. ● Overcome integration barriers ● Simplify MicroStation element transformation ● Streamline data processes ● Enhance workflow efficiency
- 9. Flash Demo
- 10. Output: ArcGIS Pro - Geodatabase
- 11. Challenges you may relate to! Common frustrations: ● Difficulty transferring data between Bentley MicroStation and GIS platforms ● Challenges transforming MicroStation elements ● Differences in how attributes are stored ● Managing spatial awareness ● Self serve data access and data validation
- 13. What is the difference between CAD and GIS? Computer Aided Drafting ● A drawing to represent objects in the real world with accuracy ● Symbology, styling, dimensions, label annotations ● Levels that can contain anything Geographic Information Systems ● Topology and data cleanliness matters ● Unique geometry type per file/feature class ● Location ● Used for analysis and decision making CAD to GIS Integration
- 14. Demo 1: DGN Roads to Shapefile
- 15. Goal Block Key Result Enrich road lines with road type attribution from a linestyle lookup table as a key DGN V7 Road Lines to Shapefile Old DGN V7 file that used coded line styles for road type attributes Use FME to map attributes onto geometry during the transformation Thematic Shapefiles with useful attribution to use in GIS. (Bonus: Upgrade to V8 with item types CAD to GIS Integration
- 16. Demo
- 17. DGN V7 to Shapefile (and DGN V8) ● AttributeValueMapper ● Feature Type Fanout ● Creating attributes for item types CAD to GIS Integration
- 19. Goal Block Key Result Merging labels & geometry to work in GIS Reading DGN drawing with labels → GDB DGN <> GIS NeighborFinder AttributeFilter GeometryFilter Written to Geodatabase
- 20. Data: MicroStation - DGN
- 21. Output: ArcGIS Pro - Geodatabase
- 22. NeighborFinder ● Great for finding & joining attributes from nearby features. AttributeFilter ● Similar transformers include the FeatureTypeFilter, Tester, and TestFilter Geometry Filter ● Used to create separate feature types based on geometry type for the Geodatabase Takeaways
- 23. Demo 3: Reading Item Types from Water Mains Writing to MapInfo
- 24. Goal Block Key Result Reading DGN Item Types → MapInfo Enabling the reader parameter and understanding what you’re looking at. MapInfo tables broken down by installation date ranges. CAD to GIS Integration Read attributes stored in DGN and enrich the dataset for analysis Lot of small line segments with the same attributes.
- 25. Demo
- 26. Recap ● Reading item types: item type name. Item time property ● Clean up topology for GIS ● Extract data for the purpose it’s needed in
- 27. CAD to GIS Key Ideas ● Get attributes onto geometry ● How to read item types / tags ● Fine tune your reader parameters: ○ Cells - as a point or as expanded geometry ○ Annotations - multilines? ○ Dimensions - explode? ○ Is a Coordinate system applicable? CAD to GIS Integration
- 29. GIS to CAD Things to keep in mind: ● What elements will points, lines, and polygons be represented in? ● Do you have custom line styles, patterns, cell libraries? ● Do you have specific levels set up in a seed file? CAD to GIS Integration
- 30. Demo 4: Writing Tags & Item Types
- 31. Slide Title Writing GIS data to DGN Goal Block Key Writing Tags and Item Types Result TAB <> DGN Using FME to read the data and write data Data is written out to DGN
- 33. Output: Microstation V8 - DGN
- 34. ● Microstation V8 Writer ● Make sure to set Write tags to Yes Writing Tags
- 35. Output: Microstation V8i - DGN
- 36. Item Types ● Require at minimum 3 attributes to be created. Tags ● Need to have the tags enabled on the writer. Takeaways 1. igds_item_names{} 2. <item name>.<property name>.type 3. <item name>.<property name> https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-ReadersWriters/igds/Tags.htm https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-ReadersWriters/igds/Item-Types.htm
- 38. Slide Title Integrate data from GIS formats to create a DGN file with a few different elements. Goal Block Key KML Roads and GeoJSON Tree Points to DGNV8 Result Filtering and restructuring data for CAD in a drawing perspective Having a good picture of the output structure or standard that you want. Use FME to make this vision come to life!
- 39. Demo
- 40. ● DGNStyler ● Seed file ● Attribute transformers (or String transformers) ● Ways to create elements and annotations (Labeller vs. LabelPointReplacer) Takeaways
- 41. 4 Wrap Up
- 42. Support for Reading and Writing with DGN
- 43. 5 Safe & FME
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- 46. 6 Resources
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- 48. 7 Next Steps
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