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  • HIRING!! BENTLEY CAD MANAGER IN MINNESOTA

    SRF Consulting Group, Inc. is one of the Midwest’s leading engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firms. SRF’s team of planners, designers, and engineers delivers innovative and lasting solutions customized to solve our client’s unique challenges…
  • MicroStation’s Learning Content is now Available on YouTube

    MicroStation has some great news to share with all our users. MicroStation videos are now available on YouTube and accessible to everyone. All these videos are available with subtitles in over 100 languages. Our content experts are working hard at creating…
  • Importing Electrical Conduit from Revit to OpenBuildings

    Hello, I am working on a project utilising OpenBuildings (Update 6). The electrical engineer on the project has modelled conduit using Revit and I am attempting to utilise this to produce electrical layout drawings. I downloaded the Bentley plugin…
  • MicroStation CONNECT Edition and the AutoCAD User

    Join us for a webinar on this topic. There are many folks who use either MicroStation or AutoCAD, and some who use both. I wanted to share some of the things that AutoCAD users should know about MicroStation CONNECT Edition. At first both are CAD…
  • Reporting on MicroStation V8i DGN data in the MicroStation CONNECT Edition

    By now you have seen the new features in the MicroStation CONNECT Edition. In fact, some of you have moved to the new version, have learned a bit about it, are planning to update to it or are testing it in some way. One new feature is the ability to…
  • Extract Drawings as Independent editable 2d DGN models

    Hello Good Bentley Community Today I need your help to address an Issue I have. I have a very nice 3d model in AECOsim Building Designer, but I need to send some plans to some dudes using AutoCad (uuggghhh), anyway, I need to extract plans from my…
  • How I Got From There to Here

    Working in the design/drafting industry was not my first choice in career, more something I fell into after a shoulder accident left me out of work for more than a year and in need of surgery. It was one of the darkest periods of my life, not knowing…
  • Featured LEARNing: Virtual Classes for March 2-6, 2015 (United States)

    MicroStation Introduction to 3D Express Mar. 02-03, 2015: 12:00 - 4:00 PM EST (8 hrs) Robert Bossler This course follows the transition from 2D drawing to 3D modeling using the basic tools for viewing, manipulating, and drawing and for basic solid modeling…
  • MicroStation Training at ALL 2015 LEARNing Conferences

    Bentley’s 2015 LEARNing Conferences will highlight 12 different themes and professional communities, including Road & Site, GIS & Mapping, Bridge, Building, Plant, and Structural. Each Conference will also include extensive training for both the MicroStation…
  • Featured LEARN Course: Creating Workspaces

    MicroStation offers extensive configuration options that allow administrators to customize their MicroStation environment to standardize and improve workflows and processes. In the “Creating Workspaces” course, you will learn how to create and edit…
  • Examples of Data Fields

    What are some practical CAD practices that I could use with the several "Data Field" Text Tools? All advice will be appreciated! Thanks!
  • BIM Extractions

    I have been having a problem with calculating my extractions. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. The problem I'm having is that when I calculate my extraction, all the levels turn off, even though they were on before I calculated the extraction…
  • The Unix, the Mac or the Android? or "Up "beep" creek with only a Pad"

    I received very good comments on the Mac post before - thanks! There is of course interesting to follow if there will be readers for smartphones analogue to the AutoCAD WS for iPhone. Will there be readers for the other platforms too? Windows Phone…
  • CAD People - Do They Really Exist?

    The band above tries to make it work for them in media. The film “Cat People” on the other hand explores the notion that we are, after all, fairly primitive and that beneath a thin surface of civilization we are nothing but crude animals – at least…
  • Re: select cad platform

    Tom, You are correct. The reason why the InRoads Group V8.5 Select CAD Platform dialog is empty is because you do not have a supported CAD platform installed. InRoads Group V8.5 does not support MicroStation XM Edition. This combination is not…
  • Re: Swap the point abbreviation and the station

    InRoads Group V8i is only supported on MicroStation V8i, AutoCAD 2008, and/or AutoCAD 2009. I apologize for any inconvenience.
  • Survey Point Text Not Displaying Correctly

    All of my survey points' text have started to display with breaks throughout the letters. I can't really explain it so I've attached a picture. Once I write the points to the screen, they display fine. It has made it terribly hard to sort through everything…
  • Re: What was the first "CAD system" you used?

    The first CAD system I used back in 88 'was MiniCad 4 [now Vectorworks] on a brand new Apple SE/30 during 2nd year college... That same year I got into ACAD 10 on a brand new borrowed 486 PC...a few years after that I was saddled in a studio working…
  • Re: View .dgn on iPhone or iTablet

    I would much rather walk around the building site or the office with one of these :-) September.... Hey Bentley, can you please port MicroStation to the Mac again 8-) Wouldn't that multi-touch interface work really well for MicroStation…