Publishing from MicroStation
JetStream Publisher comes with MDL plugins for MicroStation SE, 95, /J and v8 that enable you to publish .nwd files directly from the CAD application in which it was created. As long as MicroStation is already installed on the computer when JetStream is installed, this MDL plugin is installed with JetStream and ready for use.
Note
If you install MicroStation after JetStream, then install JetStream again, choosing the Custom Install option and choose the relevant MicroStation. The JetStream installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you.
There are two steps to publishing .nwd files from MicroStation - first you have to load the MDL application into MicroStation and then you have to publish the file.
Go to the Utilities, Key-in dialog box to load the application manually.
Type "mdl load nwexport " (without the quotes) and press return.
An options dialog can be opened from this export dialog to configure the file output.
Loading the NWExport MDL plugin manually
If you regularly publish .nwd files from MicroStation, then you will not want to load the NWExport plugin manually each time, so do the following:
Go to Workspace, Configuration
Choose Design Applications under Category
Choose NWExport under Available Applications
Click Add and confirm that you want NWExport added to your default configuration.
MicroStation will then automatically load NWExport in future sessions.
Click OK
Loading the NWExport MDL plugin automatically
Once NWExport plugin is loaded, you can publish to .nwd using the nwdout command from the key-in command line.
Enter the file name if it is to be different to the existing MicroStation file.
Enter the location you wish the file to be published to.
Select the view number you wish to the model to be published from.
Click on the Options button if you want to change the export configuration. See for more information on these options.
Click OK to publish the file or Cancel to return to MicroStation without publishing it.
Publishing .nwd files from MicroStation
Type nwdout at the key-in prompt.
The MicroStation export dialog is displayed.
Note
MicroStation can also be customized to add NWExport commands to the menu bar using the Workspace, Customize dialog.
See for what entities are and are not supported by the MicroStation exporter.
JetStream colors are derived from either MicroStation cell colors or MicroStation materials, depending on the export options set during nwdout . The appearance of objects in Publisher will match the appearance of a MicroStation shaded render.
The view number chosen for export determines the initial view in JetStream, whether level symbology is used and which levels are hidden.
Note
The exporter only exports from 3D dgn files - 2D files are not supported.