You like MicroStation V8i, but…
MicroStation V8i has been in use since it was first released in November of 2008, effectively serving the Bentley user community for many years. It has evolved to become a proven and stable platform, considered…
In V8i you can create parametric, feature-based solids, using Feature Modeling tools. Parameters used to create features like chamfer, fillet, hole, etc., are stored in the design and can be edited using the Modify Parametric…
MicroStation V8i allowed elements to be “tagged” with non-graphical data referred to as Tags. Tags were stored in Tag Sets, with the tag data providing for the reporting on tagged elements.
Though a…
As you are aware, the Configuration dialog is frequently required to modify the location of your library files or control the behavior of certain features.
Though a very useful dialog, it certainly had a few usability issues in V8i:
In MicroStation V8i, while working on a project, sheet numbering, sheet ordering, and tracking was mostly manual and hence tedious and error-prone. There were also some key limitations. Let us see what the pains in V8i were and how these have been alleviated…
You’ll Love CONNECT because……
One of the main uses of the old CellUtil MDL App was the ability to print a grid of cells in the cell library along with a preview image of each cell. The Place Cell Index tool can be easily used to achieve this. The Place Cell Index tool gives more flexibility…
MicroStation V8i allowed elements to be “tagged” with non-graphical data using Tags that were stored in Tag Sets. The Tag Data could then be used for generating simple reports but did not provide the ability to…