Slice a solid along a plane or by 3 points (equivalent to AutoCAD's SLICE command) ??

Figured it out. The cutting line must pass all the way through the object.

Why is it you can't even slice along a defined plane easily. Come on Bentley, get with the program...Why does everything have to be so tedious and drawn out with your software?

Autocad:
Slice, pick object, XY/YZ/XZ/3 Point plane (NO LINES NEEDED), Pick Point, (Both Sides), done...

Microstation:
Draw a line, draw another line, extend line through object, Cut by curves, pick object, pick point, click little green arrow thing's grips, rotate ACS, goof with little green arrow thing that really doesn't many any sense, accept, pray it works.

And it's not just this.  Everything I've encountered while using this software for the last year is more involved, more tedious, more steps, to get to the same simple end of something simple.

It's just that everyone has told me Microstation is so great and easy and well-to-do. I've thrown myself into it over the last year. I do see some positives to it. But, I have to say that my feelings are that it is overwhelmingly more tedious to do small things, the small things that make up 95% of drawings I have worked on in many different industries. Sure, maybe it is better at that last 5%, but that is only 5% of the total make-up of a production effort on a drawing. The 95% is spent with commands that have little to no feedback on what it does or how it works without researching it outside of the software, clicking in & out of various dialog boxes to find nothing changed, spending time resetting things that MicroStation remembers from a week ago that I changed to modify an unrelated drawing, moving my mouse infinitely farther back & forth across the screen between toolbars, menus and dialog boxes. This wastes so much time. Microstation seems to have fatal errors and crash many many times more than I've had with AutoCAD. I am really not a fanboy of anything, beit software, operating systems, etc... I personally think they are all a ripoff. But, I can at least compare the usability and user-friendliness between various competitors. After all I have dealt with, I can say that Microstation is just more cumbersome to use and more tedious to accomplish pretty much anything. It remembers, as I said, something I changed a week ago (active scale/rotation) on an unrelated drawing, but does not remember the folder I printed a PDF to 3 minutes ago. It's just things like this that make it illogical and cumbersome.

Unknown said:

The 95% is spent with commands that have little to no feedback on what it does or how it works without researching it outside of the software, clicking in & out of various dialog boxes to find nothing changed, spending time resetting things that MicroStation remembers from a week ago that I changed to modify an unrelated drawing, moving my mouse infinitely farther back & forth across the screen between toolbars, menus and dialog boxes.

Ok, looks like you never passed some MicroStation training. What you desribe is far from MicroStation normal workflow. It doesn't mean some tools would not be more interactive or some tools are not missing, but if it's sooo bad software, why so many people use it?

BTW If you have so many troubles with MicroStation tools and you told you have worked with MicroStation for a year, why I am not able to find any question about the problems you wrote about? As in any other product community, there are plenty of people willing to share their experience and knowledge.

Unknown said:

Microstation seems to have fatal errors and crash many many times more than I've had with AutoCAD.

MicroStation is often appreciated because of its stability and ability to work with huge data and complex (reference) files structure. I work with AutoCAD ocasionally only, so I am not able to compare, but what I know from my customers using both products, MicroStation usually wins, especially when data grows.

If you have any example when MicroStation crashes, please describe the worklow and provide data, so it can be tested by MicroStation support team.

With regards,

  Jan

Unknown said:

The 95% is spent with commands that have little to no feedback on what it does or how it works without researching it outside of the software, clicking in & out of various dialog boxes to find nothing changed, spending time resetting things that MicroStation remembers from a week ago that I changed to modify an unrelated drawing, moving my mouse infinitely farther back & forth across the screen between toolbars, menus and dialog boxes.

Ok, looks like you never passed some MicroStation training. What you desribe is far from MicroStation normal workflow. It doesn't mean some tools would not be more interactive or some tools are not missing, but if it's sooo bad software, why so many people use it?

BTW If you have so many troubles with MicroStation tools and you told you have worked with MicroStation for a year, why I am not able to find any question about the problems you wrote about? As in any other product community, there are plenty of people willing to share their experience and knowledge.

Unknown said:

Microstation seems to have fatal errors and crash many many times more than I've had with AutoCAD.

MicroStation is often appreciated because of its stability and ability to work with huge data and complex (reference) files structure. I work with AutoCAD ocasionally only, so I am not able to compare, but what I know from my customers using both products, MicroStation usually wins, especially when data grows.

If you have any example when MicroStation crashes, please describe the worklow and provide data, so it can be tested by MicroStation support team.

With regards,

  Jan