New Datum For GCS in Australia GDA2020 is comming

GDA2000 geographic coordinate systems will be present in MicroStation CONNECT edition Update 12. In addition to this will be introduced new GDA94 based coordinate system that allow converting to GDA2000 systems using either the official 7-parameter transformation or the official NTv2 grid shift files. 

Grid shift files will not be delivered but a text file indicating where they can be downloaded will be provided.

how will pre CE users  be able to make use of this without CE? would we perhaps be able to import the  files or file from inside CE , somehow I doubt it as it would be 64bit....yet another bullet in the CE gun being held to our heads....

Not knowing too much about it, i dont see why you couldnt replace your gcs library in or add a cusom one in v8i...in theory.

https://communities.bentley.com/products/geospatial/desktop/w/geospatial_desktop__wiki/6548/--defining-a-custom-coordinate-system

thanks mark but that article requires one to have and use  Bentley map and if it was that easy then Bentley could just  provide  us V8i users with the replacement  file(s)... looks like I have 2 more years to learn Acad, better that than learn CE...  at least everything works in latest acad and doesn't take forever to load and if you have to use ribbon then may as well go over to acad. even if my relationship with Bentley has been almost 30 years.... maybe its finally time to go over and embrace  the dark side...

thanks mark but that article requires one to have and use  Bentley map and if it was that easy then Bentley could just  provide  us V8i users with the replacement  file(s)... looks like I have 2 more years to learn Acad, better that than learn CE...  at least everything works in latest acad and doesn't take forever to load and if you have to use ribbon then may as well go over to acad. even if my relationship with Bentley has been almost 30 years.... maybe its finally time to go over and embrace  the dark side...

I'm not going to try and defend the complete hash Bentley has made of CE but the latest release U10 does at least have some performance improvements and you can use the classic dialog and toolbars to get closer to V8i. It is the first version of CE that I would consider deploying. I'm also fighting the battle as we use Revit on most of our projects post planning so we get AutoCAD as part of the subscription so why would you pay twice for Microstation? It's not an easy question to answer.

You'd only need map if you were creating a GCS. If the files are provided (which they will be, either by Bentley or fellow users) all we need to do is either update the gcs library or add another variable to point to the custom one. Not providing a workflow for GCS update for v8i products is tantamount to discontinuing all v8i support in Australia in the next couple of years, which would be lunacy...

Although CE has its issues, it is still far superior to acad IMO (and I use acad 2019 regularly).

Bentley is going to be discontinuing V8i support in a couple of years as it is, aren't they?

Just as you brought this up, support for pre CONNECT versions of MicroStation will be diminishing from mid 2019

https://www.bentley.com/en/desktop-applications

Support is probably the wrong word, maybe planned obsolesance in the Australian market of v8i platform products...