Bentley Microstation V8 with Geographics installed causes NITF (NTF) files to be unreadable by ArcGIS.
Last Published: August 25, 2014No Product Found
Bug ID Number
NIM004419
Submitted
September 27, 2006
Last Modified
April 2, 2025
Applies to
No Product Found
Version found
9.1
Status
Known Limit
After review by the development team, it has been determined that this issue is related to a known limitation with the software that lies outside of Esri's control. The issue's Additional Information section may contain further explanation.
Additional Information
No Public Explanation
Workaround
If you install Microstation (immediately followed by Geographics and then interplot utilities (plotting components for Microstation) and then install ARC, the workstation will NOT read the .nft If you install ARC followed by Microstation and then Geographics and interplot utilities the workstation WILL read .ntf. Microstation must be installed before geographics and you have to do a custom install to include all the database componets, this will be followed by the interplot utilities.