Converting Microstation cells to AutoCAD blocks?

[ACtrafficengr]

Has anyone found a way to bring cells into AutoCAD, without having a copy of Microstation? Autocad can import .dgn files, but apparently not .cel files.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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[thalon]

What version of AutoCAd can import DGN?

Are there a lot of cells you need imported?

I downloaded Bently Powerdraft (was free for students). It is a slightly scaled down version of microstation, but works with cells.
check here first

http://www.be.org/en-US/BE+Careers/Free+Download.htm

http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Bentley+PowerDraft/Overview.htm?market=Building

Hope this helps.

I enjoyed using microstation. I found it had several nice features that AutoCAD could use.