Placement Points

Placement points are now also available for Graphic and Shared cells.

You will see a new setting added to the View Attributes dialog, Presentation section for Placement Points. This global setting controls the visibility of placement…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16.1 is a minor release of MicroStation focusing more on bug fixes, performance, and stability. An extensive list of bugs is fixed in this update and minor but crucial enhancements, mostly driven by user requests, have…

Associative Extraction converting smart solids

With update 16.1, Associative Extraction will treat a Smart solid as a Parametric solid before extracting an associative edge or face. After extraction, the parent Smart solid will get converted to a Parametric…

The Design History tool in MicroStation CONNECT Edition gives you full control of revisions made in an active DGN file to manage your design process. You can view and track changes made to the design, who made the changes, and when. If needed you can…

In addition to the extended settings available in the new Attach Item Dialog, Update 16 brings to you the ability to search and filter out picklist values. This enhancement is particularly useful while working with large datasets with exhaustive lists…

Here’s an update on General Availability features (previously known as Commercially Available features) in Update 16. The following features and tools are now available for all in Update 16:

Attach Item Dialog

The new Attach Item Dialog was released…

VUE offers many excellent ready-to-use rendering presets that can be used as-is. But if you wish to tweak and customize these rendering settings, Update 16 offers you the Render Setup Manager dialog to conveniently do so.

The VUE Rendering engine, introduced…

In Update 16 the Text Favorites Manager has the Select Element filter introduced that will enable you to select an element and choose a property to associate with your text favorite. While creating a new favorite, you can select an element to view its…

With Update 16 you can take advantage of One Configuration which is a unified configuration system for multiple Bentley products.

A Configuration is a container of project data and enables the creation of a custom work environment to optimize user productivity…

In Update 16 datums based on the method “Grid Shift Files” will now indicate in their properties the grid file format, direction of application and the file name. This will apply to both system libraries and user libraries.

In the Select…

Update 16 introduces the ability to fix a desired Placement point while placing a parametric cell in a design. If you are using placement points (introduced in Update 15 as technology preview) in parametric modeling, you will find this enhancement very…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16 is now launched and available for download. As in previous updates, MicroStation’s Update 16 is loaded with new features, upgraded workflows, and enhancements. MicroStation CONNECT Edition comes with numerous services…

VUE is the latest, state of the art, rendering engine that enables you to create stunning renders, easily in MicroStation. VUE was initially released as a technology preview feature in MicroStation Update 15 and is now a commercially available feature…

MicroStation has some great news to share with all our users. MicroStation videos are now available on YouTube and accessible to everyone. All these videos are available with subtitles in over 100 languages. Our content experts are working hard at creating…

Update 15.02 introduces the new Collaborate ribbon tab. The Collaborate tab hosts the new Collaboration tool group, which unifies all the iTwin services and collaboration tools for seamless coordination between teams and team members on a project. This…

Variables and Variations play an important role in parametric modeling. Now it is possible to import and export parametric variables and variations to Excel’s .xlsx file format, in addition to the previously supported .csv file format. This enhancement…

The Properties section in the Reports dialog has a new field and filters available in Update 15. The Options field is newly added to the Included Items section. This field allows you to choose from ‘Include Used Classes’ and ‘Include…

Many of our users had requested enhancements in the Reports dialog to allow summarization and aggregation capabilities within Report definitions. So in Update 15, we have added the capabilities of summarizing data in columns, grouping similar entries, and…

We are pleased to announce a technology preview of E-on Software’s VUE Render Engine with MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15. This is available as the new Vue Rendering dialog in MicroStation.

The VUE rendering engine uses Global Radiosity whereas…

Named Presentations and Perforators are advanced parametric tools that are useful while working with complex 3D geometries. Named Presentations allow you to display different symbols in different view contexts. Perforators let you add perforation or cutting…

You can now build your expressions easily and intuitively using the new Expression Builder dialog. We introduced Item Types Expressions in a recent MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update to allow our users to use calculated properties within Item types.…

Most users who are migrating their workflows to MicroStation from AutoCAD find it difficult to adapt immediately to the new interface. Navigating through the MicroStation user interface may take up time and can cause some frustration to a new user who…

There is great news for users working with both MicroStation and AutoCAD for their project deliverables. While working with AutoCAD and MicroStation hybrid folder structures or converting your DWG folder structure to MicroStation configuration it is difficult…

MicroStation CONNECT Edition is constantly striving to lower barriers for DWG users to migrate their workflows to MicroStation. To provide a familiar way of operating software when DWG users transition to MicroStation, Update 15 now introduces several…

We are happy to announce the launch of MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15 which is a power-packed release, loaded with several new features, workflows, and enhancements. MicroStation team is constantly striving to prioritize users’ requests for enhancements…