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Status Needs review
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 12, 2025

Merge utility (multiple)

Bring back merge.ma utility.

Microstation readme contains this notice.
The File > Merge option in the File Open Dialog (formerly MicroStation Manager) and the MERGE utility (merge.ma) have been removed. The Import Models and Merge References functionalities provide enhanced merging features.

This is delusional and written by someone who clearly have no idea how the merge utility worked. There is no enhanced merging features using Reference merge as it takes time to reference all files then wait until they are graphically attached and then wait until they are detached after "merge all" action. Merge utility was option to call it from batch which is now missing. Stop making Microstation worse.
msbatch merge [destination_filename] [source_filename_1]... [source_filename_n]


Or add option for file->import to be able to import multiple files.

  • Admin
    Stuart Milne
    Jun 16, 2025

    I'm also curious. When would this be needed? Without having all references already attached? Which can be done by Batch Export and setting it to DGN. Can you give us a scenario?

  • Guest
    Jun 14, 2025

    Curious: when this is used, does Mstn then open the file?

    Also, Mstn supports multiple models. How would this be defined.