[MIcroStation] MicroStation Online

Hi Rémy,

Rémy Weill said:

Is a MicroStation online (as a cloud service) planned ?

Are you interested in "pure MicroStation", because DGN is the format you want to use, or in "CAD editor", provided by Bentley?

I do not recall any information MicroStation is planned to be available online. Because it is standard desktop application, based on technologies like DirectX, I think to make it available in cloud always lead to some virtualization and desktop sharing.

iTwinJS project, mentioned by Oto is "designed for cloud". It is open-source technology, with commercial back-end (iModel hub), and its newest version brings also editing capabilities, but existing technology demonstrations do not show this functionality (yet?) This is "new world", with no dependency on anything like MicroStation or DGN, even when it is based BIM, which is a successor of EC data, used widely in MicroStation CE generation.

With regards,

  Jan

Any idea reading specification what kind of editing capabilities are there? This year we are in process of losing around 300 seats in multiple organizations and can't do much about that because of Powerdraft discontinuation which was used for simple 2D drafting before and they would like to use it in future. 
No need for full Microstation just drawing primitives(lines, shapes, curves, annotation), placing symbols(cells) and using background data(WMS). Also printing/plotting. Of course not in price of full Microstation.

Oto said:

This year we are in process of losing around 300 seats in multiple organizations and can't to nothing about that because of Powerdraft discontinuation which was used for simple 2D drafting before and they would like to use it in future.

Given that the DGN file format has been unchanged for years, what's stopping these organisations from keeping their Powerdraft installations running (whether it be V8i or CONNECT)?

Oto said:

This year we are in process of losing around 300 seats in multiple organizations and can't to nothing about that because of Powerdraft discontinuation which was used for simple 2D drafting before and they would like to use it in future.

Given that the DGN file format has been unchanged for years, what's stopping these organisations from keeping their Powerdraft installations running (whether it be V8i or CONNECT)?

wouldn't that become a liability issue for the organization ? Using a discontinued product on an active project.

Why should it? In my experience, version-specific software is only mandated on BIM projects, specifically REVIT where there are differences between a REVIT 2021 file and a REVIT 2022 file. We don't have that issue with DGN files, the difference is versions is merely the suit of tools available to the user.

Of course, every organisation will have a different take on things, but if it was thought to be an issue from someone outside an organisation, a simple conversation explaining the reasoning should be suffice enough to answer any concerns. That said, on most projects I work on, nobody other than me knows what software I use, so its a situation I don't deal with these days.

fair enough

SELECT is stopping. 

Oto said:

SELECT is stopping.

Are you suggesting that these Powerdraft installations have Term licenses instead of Perpetual?