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Status Future consideration
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 22, 2023

Improve vector-PDF Import

I absolutely love the PDF import functionality in Microstation U17!

There are quite a few improvements possible that would really make it an even better product. I can only hope they are already on the agenda (maybe for U18 when it's no longer a Technology Preview?):

  • Import layers from the PDF to Levels in the DGN file;

  • Better conversion of line weight- and colour

  • Recognition of colinear dashed lines into a line style

  • Text conversion. Works sometimes, but not always. Maybe it has something to do with fonts? If so, is there any method of importing the font from the PDF to DGN?

  • Add option to use annotation scale on imported text so that text scales when the drawing is scaled => On import the text size must be matched so that the displayed text is OK in the current annotation scale.


  • Guest
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    Jan 18, 2024

    This is a really important feature in my opinion, that will be greatly enabled by LLM and Generative AI integration into MicroStation. Development milestones I would like to see are:
    - Vectorized PDF support for all MicroStation element types. Fully useful graphical DGN files from a pdf.

    - Rasterized PDF support for all MicroStation element types. Scan any drawing and convert to a fully useful graphical DGN file.

    Most of the world's documents on infrastructure design are stored on paper or rasterized pdfs. This dwarfs all of the worlds vectorized pdfs by a large margin!