ORD 2021 Release 1

Adam, thanks for asking on this, I was starting to wonder as I had heard at one point that something was planned for March. We are waiting on many of the items you identify here, plus (hopefully) significant improvement in how D&U content is annotated. What caught my attention however is your comment on cut/fill meshes generating randomly. I am not sure I have seen this, but it causes me some concern, could you elaborate on what you are seeing?

Steven Litzau said:

as I had heard at one point that something was planned for March.

Maybe they decided to wait for PowerPlatform update. So far, ORD products usually used older platform version than was MicroStation released.

If Bentley will keep 6 month MicroStation release cycle, Update 16 should be released this month. But I think it will not happen, because in the meantime, Update 15.2 was released. On the other hand, MicroStation CE U16 help was started to be published to documentation site, even when not publicly (not listed in the available documentation). It typically happens when the product is in the final development phase.

The same happened from OpenRoads Designer, 2021 Release 1 documentation is there (again, not listed publicly ;-) But it's not updated yet and What's new section is empty (in contrast with MicroStation What's new), so it's not clear what new features and enhancements will be released. But at least, it's a proof ORD is also close to finalization phase.

With regards,

  Jan

Steven Litzau said:

as I had heard at one point that something was planned for March.

Maybe they decided to wait for PowerPlatform update. So far, ORD products usually used older platform version than was MicroStation released.

If Bentley will keep 6 month MicroStation release cycle, Update 16 should be released this month. But I think it will not happen, because in the meantime, Update 15.2 was released. On the other hand, MicroStation CE U16 help was started to be published to documentation site, even when not publicly (not listed in the available documentation). It typically happens when the product is in the final development phase.

The same happened from OpenRoads Designer, 2021 Release 1 documentation is there (again, not listed publicly ;-) But it's not updated yet and What's new section is empty (in contrast with MicroStation What's new), so it's not clear what new features and enhancements will be released. But at least, it's a proof ORD is also close to finalization phase.

With regards,

  Jan