Bentley Workspace Tools
"Everything is in the dgn [or dgnlib]". Great. But the dgn is a proprietary binary file format.
Bentley's default de-opaquer (getting the binary to something readable (well, transparent) is to send to XML. These tend to be "Export" tools in various contexts (the Explorer, dialogs...):
- Feature Definitions <--> xml file
- Feature Symbology <--> xml file
- Element Templates <--> xml
These xml reports - like all compliant xml files - are digestible by the standard programs and parsers, as well as the InRoads/OpenRoad Report Browser.
Bentley put together some translator programs for some of the xml reports into every engineer's favorite data management tool: Excel. They also wrote some translator programs to take some of these Excel files back into the XML format for re-import. This way, you can do a lot of administrative bulk stuff in a format we understand.
Not wanting to do a bunch of customized coding, the tools tend to output a single xls with many tabs and every combination of attributes. They're full-spectrum, they're complex.
Feature Remapper
Available from File > Civil Tools. Create and Use a configuration file to go from one OpenRoads workspace convention to another.
Feature Definition Wizard
Right-click in the Explorer, right-click on a Feature header
Derricke explains it here on youtube: OpenRoads Designer 2022 Release 1 Feature Definition Wizard