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DXF RATNEST ???

    10-Apr-94 12:19:58
Sb: #96357-DXF RATNEST ???
To: Ken l. Elwood 73121,3065
Ken: An "INVALID RATNEST IN DXF" error is just that, a convoluted mess of pointers in the file. There is no "VOID" in the Autodesk DXF spec (they wrote the spec, theirs should be adhered to by other vendors!) MicroStation has some entities that are not in AutoCAD, one being VOIDs, which simply do not translate. You have to go back into MicroStation and re-model these entities. We came across these items a while ago, and found that writing a DXF file out of MicroStation and reading the file back in immediately generated an "Invalid File" in MicroStation! Not real confidence-building! We stick to AutoCAD! Greg Pyros