[gdal-dev] Trouble reading .dgn files

[Roger André]

Ahhh soooo...

Yepp, these are definitely version 8 files.  I don't think I can give you
one of the files I'm getting the error with, but I'll see if I can get a
dummy one made with the same tools for you to test with.

Thanks,

Roger
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On Dec 13, 2007 11:08 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> Roger André wrote:
> > I'm having trouble reading .dgn files using the ogr utilities and can't
> > figure out what I'm doing wrong.  I've tried to read the data a number
> > of different ways:
> >
> > ogrinfo ./ D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn
> > ogrinfo ./ D3460_PFA_RDNew
> > ogrinfo -all ./ D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn
> > ogrinfo -all ./ D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn elements
> > ogrinfo ./ D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn elements
> > ogrinfo -summary ./D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn elements
> > ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" test.shp ./D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn
> > ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" test.shp ./D3460_PFA_RDNew.dgn elements
> >
> > The .dgn format is new to me, so if anyone could give me advice on how
> > best to work with it using the GDAL libs, I'd very much appreciate it.
>
> Roger,
>
> My first guess would be that these are v8 or newer dgn files.  OGR only
> supports the older v7 and earlier format.  What error message are you
> getting?  Can you make one of the dgn files available for review?
>
> I'd like to have OGR report a meaningful error for new files if that
> is the problem.
>
> Best regards,
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