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I deal with this issue constantly, but unfortunately I do not know of a process that is 100%. I always have some cleanup that needs to be done (scaling, level names, etc). Also, if the original survey is over 63 levels this will lead to problems. Make sure your survey is on 63 levels or less.

Contact Bentley. We had that same problem and they seemed to fix that with the later versions. We especially had that problem in the 'dwg' mode.

I'll do that, but I also ordered a copy of "Harnessing Microstation V8 by G. V. Krishnan, James E. Taylor". I've had the "Inside Microstation 95" for years and that was very good. We shall see.

Sorry then. Good luck with it.

Anyone have some pointers for a 15 year Microstation guy that has to make the V8 switch? So far I'm less then impressed with this new platform.

You can't "select by fill" as I know, but you can use the 'select by attributes' feature, and select by color and/or shape. It's a powerful toll that may help if you filter through the options.

I doubt it exists. I've yet to do anything "easy" in this product, and the reference manuals, etc. are anything but "Good".

Anybody have a good procedure for creating Retaining walls?

AutoCad may be more user friendly, but it is a slow and cumbersome tool. There are way too many keystrokes involved. Microstation may have it's drawbacks, but it is easily the far more superior product. I have used both AutoCad (6 yrs) & Microstation (8 yrs), so I have a pretty good...