[GRASSLIST:5943] dgn file

Hello all,

Does anyone know how I can, in a Linux box, convert MicroStatio *.dgn files
into dxf or shape, or something that GRASS can read?

tks

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   Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho - Guano

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Carlos Henrique Grohmann de Carvalho wrote:

Hello all,

Does anyone know how I can, in a Linux box, convert MicroStatio *.dgn files into dxf or shape, or something that GRASS can read?

Carlos,

The "ogr2ogr" application (part of GDAL/OGR) provides conversion of
DGN files to Shapefiles. In GRASS 5.1, DGN files should be useable directly.

   http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/

Note that DGN files generally contain a mixture of geometry types, while
shapefiles may only have one type of geometry so you will need to do some
fooling around to translate the DGN file into a "point", "line", and "polygon"
file to capture all features in a complex dataset.

Good luck,

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