Reference Guide
Reference Guide
Reference Guide

Save As V7 Options References tab

Controls how references are handled when you save a file as a V7 DGN file.

You can choose to keep references as attachments, combine a file and its references into a single output file, or omit the reference attachments from the output file.

Save As V7 Options, References tab

  

For information about references, see Using References.

Levels from View

Identifies which levels from the reference attachments are merged (if a merge option is selected for the attachments).

External Attachments

Controls how standard attachments to the default model are handled when you save to a V7 file.

Self Attachments

Controls how self-attachments are handled when you save to a V7 file.

A self-attachment is a reference attached to itself. In MicroStation, self-attachments are often used to create detailed sections of a drawing.

Attachments to Non-Default Models

Controls how attachments to non-default models are handled when you save to a V7 DGN file.

V7 files contain a single model. Therefore, when a V8 file is saved to a V7 file, only the default model is saved. Any additional (non-default) models are saved to separate files with the model name appended to the original file name. For example, if file “Test.dwg” has two sheet models, “Sheet1” and “Sheet2”, it will be saved to three V7 files: “Test.dgn”, “Test_sheet1.dgn”, and “Test_sheet2.dgn”. The references attachments to non-default models will be updated to attach to the appropriate V7 files.

Live Nested References

Controls how live nested references are saved to V7 files. V7 does not support live nesting.

Copy Levels During Merge

Describes how levels are handled when you merge references from the DGN file into a DWG/DXF file.

Convert Reference Files

If on, when saving a DWG or V8 DGN file to a V7 DGN file, all references are converted to V7 DGN files.

Allow Optimized Clip for Reference Merge

If on, maintains the surfaces and solids and shapes when they are clipped during the merge process. If off, the surfaces and solids are dropped to their boundary/wireframe elements.