PokeIt is a MicroStation VBA application. It's used to select, isolate or hide elements based on their attributes, such as level, color, line style, etc. The filter criterion is populated from a selected, or "poked," element rather than from a list in…
While the Bentley ecosystem of applications is evolving to offer a better experience for collaborating in your projects, we listened to our users' request and reintroduced Clash Detection in MicroStation. We have also added a few fixes and support for…
Blocks in AutoCAD are analogous to Shared Cells in MicroStation/PowerDraft. These are a group of geometry or entities that act as one object and can be inserted and manipulated in a design. Blocks or Cells are made of reusable content and can include…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 14 introduces iTwin Synchronizer as Technology Preview. iTwin Synchronizer enables you to synchronize or push your design changes from a DGN to an iModel in the iModelHub. These changes in the iModel are available for…
The V8i Task Theme introduced in Update 13 of MicroStation CONNECT Edition was a welcome change for users who have recently migrated to the CONNECT Edition from V8i. The V8i task theme eases the process of transitioning to the new CONNECT interface by…
The Offset Solid Edges tool now offers greater flexibility to users by allowing you to choose a specific Mode to offset solid edges while imprinting geometry on a solid. You can now choose between Original and Round options in the Mode field in the Offset…
You can now create a non-orthogonal cut in a solid using AccuDraw. Earlier you could only create a cut in a direction orthogonal to the solid. You can now manipulate the direction of the cut using the handles to get the desired result.
Here’s how you…
MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 14 introduces support for mid-point in its 2D constraint tools.
Applying constraints is an integral part of any parametric design. We are constantly striving to make parametric modeling tools better and ease users’…
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…
The CONNECT Edition version of MicroStation enables you to take a massive leap forward with cool features such as Item Types, Sheet Index, Parametric Modeling, and many more. Have you started using powerful properties-based features like Reports, Tables…
Bentley is supporting Work from Home for our MicroStation users. Here’s some information that we have consolidated in the form of Wiki links and Blog articles to help you stay productive while working from home.
Guidance on Bentley Communities
Here…
Bentley Institute Press Announces Availability of “Inside MicroStation” CONNECT Edition Book Series
Bentley Institute Press, the publisher of cutting-edge textbooks and professional reference works, has announced the availability of a new…
If you are working from home and being connected to your company's projects, working interactively and sharing data with your team members can be a challenge. But Bentley has your back with MicroStation and ProjectWise 365 Services.
Watch the below…
Working with heavy duty desktop machines and carrying it around does not sound very feasible and requires a mechanism to speed up the remote desktop experience. Remote Desktop Connection in Windows offers a great way to log into that machine from your…
Citrix provides excellent solutions for desktop virtualization. MicroStation users working from home can take advantage of the Citrix virtualized environment. The Citrix XenApp helps achieve control and access for multiple users connecting to applications…
The wait is over!!
On request from our users of MicroStation CONNECT Edition, the CELLTOOL has now been ported and is available for download. You can download this application from here.
In MicroStation CONNECT Edition, you can access this tool from: