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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
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…
When posting a question to one of the Be Communities Forums it's always good practise to reveal the version of MicroStation (or other product) that you are using. MicroStation's version command is there to help: type version in the command key…
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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…
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…