Text Symbol In Block

[Anonymous]

I have a block that is in 500+ drawings that need to be converted to microstation. Everything in the block converts fine except for the circle before the number (see attached). This is probably because it is a text symbol and not drawn. It shows up as "?" when the file is converted.

Things I have tried

1. wblock, Remove the circle attribute and draw a circle - when the block is redefined, it breaks the 3 part field that shows the label [ "FunctionCode" "-" "SequenceNumber"]. This could work if a script could refine the attribute DONOTEDITCOMBINED as the 3 part field it was before redefined...

2. convert the whole block to mtext - failed miserably at writing code. 

It should also be noted that I don't need any of the values stored withing the block anymore. I only care that there is a circle and the value of the tag is retained.

anyone have any ideas?

[dbroad]

The attribute is preset to a single character using the Plantstyle style, which uses the Arial font.  Which font are you using in Microstation?  The easiest approach would probably be to add the style to Microstation so it could interpret the characters correctly.  The symbol in that visibility state is called "black circle", Unicode 0x25CF.  Each visibility state, however, uses different symbols.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your response.

Is there a way to embed the font style into the CAD drawing? As far as I can tell, the only font styles used in microstation are simplex and standard

[dbroad]

That's a good question for a Microstation user.  Try one of their forums or wait here until someone who uses both can answer.

[john.uhden]

You are a wizard, Doug!

I don't think I have it anymore, but I had to write a DGN->DWG translation function for certain symbols (mainly fractions) to make sense out of NJDOT details which were as DGNs only.