Karishma Anthony

With Update 17.2 you can now use the Table Style Manager dialog to capture a Table Style from an existing table or create a new Table Style using the dialog. This dialog is available in the Tables group in the ribbon.

Capture a Style

Follow these steps…

You can now clone single or multiple Item types to an element and place Item Type information as text using the Clone Items feature.

The property value can be placed as Text in the design once you have cloned the element. The placed text will maintain…

Along with the existing small enhancements, the following enhancements were made in the item types workflow for Update 17.2

Ability to place Item Type information as Text

With Update 17.2, you can place Item Type information as text in the DGN. The Display…

With the new release of MicroStation U17.1, it is easier to work with the enhanced reporting structure and streamline your workflows. The following minor improvements have been introduced in update 17.1 for Reports dialog.

Working with Related Object…

In Update 17.1 you can now use these new expressions to get the coordinates with respect to the Global Origin instead of the Design Origin

• GlobalOrigin.GetX(this.GetElement().Origin)
• GlobalOrigin.GetY(this.GetElement().Origin)
• GlobalOrigin.Getz(this…

(Technology Preview) Reports Definition Enhancement

With Update 17, a wide range of shortcuts have been added to the Reports dialog to improve your productivity. Select or create a new report definition and simply right click to see these settings. 

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In this blog you will find a variety of performance improvements that were made in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16.1.

Improvement in placing Parametric Cell with variable value

Placing a parametric cell after editing the variable value, took longer…

With MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16 you can now modify and update the sheet index properties of a sheet in the Manage Sheet Index setting that is available in the Explorer Dialog, Sheet Index Tab. You can link any sheet model from any design file…

With latest performance improvements in every update, MicroStation offers its users ways to improve and enhance the quality of their work and with the upgraded Sheet Index improvements in Update 16, you will be able to work with Sheets within a design…

MicroStation can now be executed with the help of a Startup script that can be run in the command window during installation. You can do so by selecting the checkbox for Execute Startup Script to put contents of the startup file into the command queue…

The time taken to plot sheets in PDF from Print Organizer has shown substantial improvement in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16 as compared to Update 15. Print Organizer is used for printing and reprinting DGN/DWG, Raster, and PDF files that are…

With Update 16, The changes you make in your 3D design file, will replicate in all your drawings and sheets and other view attribute settings of the 3D model.

You can modify the View Attribute settings, Level display and reference display in your design…

In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16 you can now store Picklists and item Types look up data in one, single Excel file.

This new capability makes it much easier to manage and work with large amount of Item Type data as you do not need to define and…

With MicroStation’s update 15, you can now use the new Attach Item Dialog to add, view, and edit item type information and its common properties. It is fairly simple and supports filters and search. This is available in the Item Types group under…

Performance enhancements aim at upgrading the user experience with improvements and one such improvement is made in the “Save” option for Picklist Manager on the selection of large Picklist which eventually enhances the performance of MicroStation CONNECT…

With MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15, the Element Selection tool has shown significant improvement with its drag-and-select method of selecting elements. Previously, it took longer to select the elements as compared to Update 14. The “Ctrl+A” method…

Web Map Tile Service is a standard protocol for serving pre-rendered tiles by the server or real-time computed geo-referenced map tiles over the Internet. With MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15, this feature is now Public Technology Preview. The…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15 allows you to broaden the selection of a structured query language by using Wild Cards in Display Rules. This can be done by setting the string to (*/?) followed by the "like" comparison to filter out long lists…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15 now allows you to view a common set of productivity tools, like notifications, learning content, support, help documentation, account-specific content, and your profile information. You can view this at the top right…

With every update of MicroStation CONNECT Edition, the ability to working with ease and offering a better experience is evolving. With the recent update, you can now simplify your sharing capabilities and web-based model viewing with iTwin Design Review…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition with its latest update has improved and enhanced the feature of viewing and working in a Dark Mode environment will not only complement navigation but also ease your workflow. A variety of elements within MicroStation have…

Much like the previous blog, in this blog, you will find results of a comparative study conducted to analyze the file open time for a DWG file between MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 13 and Update 14. We came up with enhancements in the previous update…

Property dialogs key feature is to review or modify the properties of an element, such as its geometry. With the recent development in the Element Properties Dialog, we fetched plenty properties. Now we are optimizing them for better performance. Users…

Cleanup actions are performed via the Design File Cleanup dialog. With this update, the performance of the Design File clean-up has improved, making the user experience easier and less time-consuming. In the previous update, the time taken to load and…

The Work Page consists of two major components, WorkSpace and WorkSet. The smooth transition from selecting the WorkSpace and delving down to the WorkSet has now become quick to access with MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 14. There are two methods…