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In OpenRoads, "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.

Note: Bentley "doesn't support" these files.  They're a couple major version old and they're not updating them (go vote onBCI-I-600 on the Bentley Ideas Portal).  They suggest using the Feature Definition Wizard.

• Feature Import Export - this translates the features.xml and symbologies.xml back and forth to excel.
• Element Template Utility this translates the elementtemplates.xml back and forth to excel.

Legacy & Migration Tools

• XIN Extractor This takes an .xin file and creates three xmls that importable into ORD (Features, Symbology, Element Templates).
• DDB Extractor
• Font Remap (readme.txt) - legacy only 
• Save Levels to Elem Temp (readme.txt)
• Scale Models (readme.txt)
• Template Library ITL Converter
• Template Library ITL Feature ReMapper
• XSL Style Sheets Converter

Note that one issue in migrating from old to ORD is that there is generally a revamping of the naming convention.  The XIN Extractor has a re-mapping spreadsheet to facilitate this. 

XIN Tools

InRoads has Tools >

• Feature Style Manager- shows the attributes of the Feature Styles, sortable by header, filterable by symbology.  No export.
• Symbology Manager- meh, lists Named Symbology, Description, and whether Default, Plan, Profile or Cross Section defined. Filters.  No export.
• Preferences Manager - allows a broad look into what Preferences are defined for every tool.

Reports XSL: XIN folder 

All reports are exportable to Excel.

• FeatureStyles.xsl shows the attributes of the Feature Styles - good for listing the Named Symbologies
• NamedSymbologiesUse.xsl lists the Named Symbologies, the Feature Styles they're used in, and its Type (Inclusive, Surface, Point, Line, Arc...)
• MissingNamedSymbology.xsl - Tool Preferences can (should) use Named Symbologies to standardized graphic output.  This report should show which Named Symbologies are called from which Preferences but aren't found.