[GRASSLIST:3136] RE: can't display DGN

[Hamish]

> Many thanks for you help. Unfortunately, still I can't display. v.info 
> shows bad region limits (see below). Could the mistake be about bad 
> region settings while importing?
..
> import process follows
> 
> g.region n=45N s=37N w=10W e=5E
> v.in.dgn - all defaults accepted
> This outputs a lot of warnings about complex element header ignored, 
> complex elements parts written
> 
> Next I run v.support - all defaults accepted
..
> Projection: Latitude-Longitude (zone 0)
> N:0  S:0
> E:0  W:0
> Source date:
> Original scale 1:0 


You might try GRASS 5.7 and v.in.ogr

see:
http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass51/manuals/html57_user/v.in.ogr.html
http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/ogrhtml/drv_dgn.html

"DGN files do not contain spatial indexes"



Hamish