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…

MicroStation implements Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). MicroStation VBA has extensions to VBA that allow interaction to the design file elements and settings, thus making it easy for users to navigate within MicroStation. In this blog…

In this blog you will find a variety of performance improvement that were made in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 14.

The test data has been accumulated based on machines with multiple processors and an average of the same has been drawn to run the…

Ensuring better user experience has been a prime focus for MicroStation CONNECT Edition with every update. In Update 14, we have tried to make accessing backstage smoother and faster by giving you the choice to disable the thumbnail preview for the recently…

When working with 3D models, some geometric components need to display different symbols in different view contexts, and simple projections may not be sufficient. The Named Presentations feature allows you to do so and with MicroStation CONNECT Edition…

With the introduction of the Help tab the access to help from the Ribbon was moved out from the Ribbon to the Help tab, in the previous update. In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 14, the help icon is reintroduced in the top right section of the ribbon…

Text Favorite Manager in MicroStation CONNECT Edition hosts a variety of element property types to enable reusable property-driven annotations.  The text favorites created in the Text Favorite Manager can contain placeholder fields as well as fields with property…