Shawn McGaffick

Starting with the MicroStation CONNECT Edition, Bentley has been releasing quarterly updates as a method of continuous improvement.

The Configuration Migration Wizard was added to Update 4 of the MicroStation CONNECT Edition. It helped migrate legacy…

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Are you a Project Manager, Team Leader or Early Adopter who wants to stay on the cutting edge of Bentley technology? Do you want to use and adopt many of the new features and workflows but just cannot due…

You like MicroStation V8i, but…   

Have you ever looked for a Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) that is simply not available?  The list of Geographic Coordinate Systems in MicroStation V8i is static and “as-is”. The development to add any additional…

You like MicroStation V8i, but…  

Have you resisted using Bing Maps aerial and road information as a background to your design in MicroStation V8i because you weren’t quite sure about the licensing and costs involved or because it involved edits…

In a project if you ever have encountered a design file that came from outside your company, department or group, you probably already know that no two “dgn” files are equal. In some cases they don’t print correctly, line styles don’t display correctly…

As a CAD Administrator or user, you have a real need to run a specific report, one showing each cell that has been placed into a design. In the past, you may have even done this by “brute force” by using Edit>Select By Attributes. A tedio...

As a CAD Administrator you are probably already aware that the MicroStation CONNECT Edition can automate the creation of a Sheet Index. However, the Sheet Index is designed to report on sheets that have already been added to the Index correctly. What…

As a CAD Administrator, it may be beneficial to quickly check a file, a directory, WorkSet, all WorkSets, or a particular WorkSpace, etc. The resulting report could be used to ensure designs are opened by the correct pair of WorkSpace and WorkSet. It…

In MicroStation V8i, the primary grouping of directory structure, files and associated data was referred to as a "Project". In the MicroStation CONNECT Edition this has changed. That grouping is now referred to as a "WorkSet. This blog post will discuss…

By now you have seen the new features in the MicroStation CONNECT Edition. In fact, some of you have moved to the new version, have learned a bit about it, are planning to update to it or are testing it in some way. 

One new feature is the ability to…

A picture is worth a thousand words may be an old idiom, but it applies to our design projects as well.

Have you ever had a need to have your project, your designs displayed within the context of a map or aerial image? In many cases you may not have dedicated…

Today we announce the availability of a new learning path for users of MicroStation. This complimentary learning is built from the ground up for Plant Designers and teaches the most common workflows to generate Plant Data in MicroStation. In this Learning…

Today we announce the availability of a new learning path for users of MicroStation. This complimentary learning is built from the ground up for Mapping Designers and teaches the most common workflows to generate Mapping Data in MicroStation.

Do you…

Today we announce the availability of a new learning path for users of MicroStation.  This complimentary learning is built from the ground up for Civil/Roadway Designers and teaches the most common workflows to generate visualization in MicroStation. 

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Today we announced the availability of a new learning path for users of MicroStation. This complimentary learning is built from the ground up for Building Designers and teaches the most common workflows to generate Building geometry in MicroStation.  In…