Good Day!
I just wan to ask the advantages of microstation to autocad. what are the things that microstation can do but autocad cannot do?
Thanks and Best regards
First of we dont want to get into any frivolous competition about my cads better than your cad and its all about personal preference and a lot to do with what you first learnt what to do on what package and how much good training and feed back you got / get when learning... that said lets not have a flame war, after all this is a microstation devotee forum so we are bound to be a little biased hahha...
There is so much I like better in msnt but its all pros and cons here are a few I like best..
1. Mst can have Multimodel spaces.
2. Mstn can handle really really really big rasters and load quickly I had a 8 gig aerial photo very high res loaded in mstn in under 3 seconds on a crappy network too...
3 Mstn can handle really big files ie cad 3d very fast to open..
4. Mstn can make Imodels
5 Mst can export to lots of different formats and can import heaps of different data formats..
6. Mst has very intuitive data dialogs that pop up and wait to be populated by numbers in particular accudraw... ( acad now has similar feature)
7. Mstn polygons have fill / hatch as an attribute ie on or off so you dont have to draw two elements just one poly .. reduces errors when measuring areas in bulk selections...
8 .Mstn is very easy to customise and make workflows to suit the task or even the type of drafting without a cad manager doing it for you..
9. Custom Function keys are my favourite feature next to xyz import export tool you can make your own F key menus for almost any task or keyin string ie one for electrical Fkey menu and other completely different one for everyday drafting etc...
10 The batch processor tool can do so much when used with scripts and macros its killer application...
11. script files are easy to learn and make and can do enormous amounts of fast batch work over loads of files...
12 VBA macro recorder and editor easy to use and edit but you need to learn programming VBA to do really complex stuff...
13 . Mstn Basic Recorder is very easy to read the code and you dont need to be a programer to make simple macro recordings ( not continued in new CE Mstn)
14. Mstn Referencing files and nesting is really much better than acad overlays and xrefs and in survey or civil this probably the single most best feature
15. Mstn Geographic datum tools for reprojecting or using survey datums in real world coordinates...very very cool for survey and mapping and civil projects work need real coordinates and data drawn in real world coordinates from surveyors etc.
16. Mstn Can make Dtms or 3d mesh and surfaces from points or contours
17 Mstn 3d is much easier to use than basic out of the box acad
18. Mst is just better (IMHO) .. well I've invested over 20 years using and learning it .. I have tried acad for 6- 12 months at a time over several editions at different employers and its very good but i find I do a lot of typing but in msnt I do more with less effort.. most of the time.......haha!
What I dislike about mstn
crappy text tool need complete over haul
Notes tool could do with ohaul too as it uses the text features
Dimensions tools needs total over haul its like the programer never consulted a drafter as to how to dimension stuff
No dynamic blocks like in acad we have DD cells and parametric all too hard to do unlike acad dynamic blocks much easier..
Custom line style creation is just way too difficult too complex but very powerful, acad simple linestyle creation is way too easy.. we have no equivalent in mstn its the same tool from 20 years ago and it was way too hard and too many steps back then and remains the same today.. fortunately you can import stuff from other packages very easily...so unless you really have to make new linestyles you dont need to bother with this crappy complex tool.....
Mstn Help file is still after 20 years not good enough to learn how to do complex stuff where as it seems acad web site is better at finding adequate help quickly and easily .. to be fair Bentley learn site is great but not all free access without subscription and hard to search for specifics....
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE update 16 (10.16.00.80)
MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.click link to PM me
José
Unknown said:If we want to do BIM we have AECOSim that runs on top of MS and the way of work it's the same. In Acad we have to jump to Revit and everything is new there.