Item Types
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17 introduces several enhancements and new features for Item Types:
Automatically create Text fields from Item Types properties
It is now possible to create Text Fields easily, directly from item Types properties…
The MicroStation product team is pleased to announce the availability of MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16.2 (10.16.02.34) on Software Downloads and as a downloadable update from the CONNECTION Client. This MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update includes…
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MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 12 introduces a new, exciting Technology Preview General Access Feature: Item Types' EC Expressions
The EC Expression framework is extremely powerful and allows us to return a value calculated from properties of…
In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 12 you can now generate reports only on item types in a selection.
The option is available in the report definition properties, where you can choose between "All elements", "Current" or "by Fence" selection types…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 introduces a new exciting 3D modeling feature:
The Associative Extraction of Edges and Faces.
This tools lets you extract edges and faces from parametric solids keeping associativity with their parents elements.
With MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 11 you can now import/export both your Item Types definitions and instance data from/to Excel.
Named Presentations is a new MicroStation feature that lets you define a different representation of your components to be displaid in a particular view orientation…
Functional Components get smarter, taking 3D parametric modeling a step further.
When creating a parametric cell, you can now tag one or more…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 introduces Picklists support in Item Types.
There is a new dialog, the "Picklists Manager", that lets you create picklists for being used in Item Types properties.
Picklists can be manually created…
So, what's new in LumenRT Update 5? Here are the new features released with this updates with some video examples.
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MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 9 continues to deliver, as Product Companion, LumenRT which is now at its Update 5 release.
What's new in LumenRT Update 5? Here are the new features released with this updates with some video examples.
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 9 introduces an handy enhancement in the new Shrinkwrapper Mesh tool: the "Skip simplification" option.
When toggled, this option skips the mesh simplification process that the tool computes at the end of…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 8 has just been released and it comes with LumenRT Update 4 as Product Companion.
What's new in LumenRT Update 4?
Here are the exciting new features that made it into this update of LumenRT:
New in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 8: Shrinkwrapper Mesh Tool
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 8 introduces a new General Access Technology Preview mesh tool: the Shrinkwrapper
This new tool generates a mesh around an exisitng mesh or solid…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 7 introduces the "Circular Profile" option in the Extrude Along tool.
This feature allows you to quickly create a circular extrusion along a path, without the the need of separately drawing a circular input…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 7 introduces a new "Edit Item" dialog for an easier and quicker way of editing Item properties.
When you right click on an element, the "Edit Item" option is shown if there are one or more item types attached…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 6 introduces support for the new scalable meshes file format. Scalable meshes are a new type of multi-resolution meshes that, amongst many advantages, offers faster processing, improved visualization and much better…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 5 introduced a new, swift 3D modeling capability: being able to use the same element as an input element for multiple features.
This apparently small enhancement gives you the potential of driving multiple features…
Another usability enhancement in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 5 is the ability to choose between radius or diameter when applying a "constraint by element" to a circular element or ar an arc.
This new feature is pretty easy to use, you…
The Functional Components enablement in MicroStation allows for you to experience true 3-D parametric design for advanced design modeling, leveraging both 2D and 3D constraints to accurately capture and model design intent.
The CONNECT Edition introduces…
Communicating your design intent or evaluating a design in the context of where it is in relation to the real world has never been easier with the use of MicroStation CONNECT Edition. One of the newest features is the ability to utilize ContextCapture…
In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 2 we worked to make our Reality Model smarter and more useful
We started by introducing a new dialog for managing Reality Mesh attachments. All the tools, previously accessible only by key-ins, can now be started…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 2 introduces support for content in Autodesk™ RFA format. You can place it as a parametric cell, reference it, or import it into the active DGN model.
The RFA content keeps all of its original variations (also…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 2 we introduce a new and much faster, multi-threaded Visible Edges processing engine which will take advantage of all available CPU cores.
Benchmark testing has shown very significant improvements in hidden line processing…