MicroStation - Design Modeling Software
MicroStation is not only the foundation of infrastructure design projects, it is the foundation of your design and engineering solution. With the power, flexibility, and best-in-class features you need without the need for add-ons, MicroStation makes it easy to work the way you want to work, leaving you time to do what you do best. With MicroStation, you can minimize risk, accelerate automation, and win more business.
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| Design | | Communicate | | Deliver |
| Create geospatially enabled 2D and 3D drawings for infrastructure projects and deliver them on time and on budget, even as projects grow in complexity and scope. | Quickly create better documents that communicate your design intent. Documents are industry-compliant, so you can stamp designs with ease and confidence. | A common environment connects your applications, data, and teams, so that you can reliably deliver on even the most demanding projects. |
Infrastructure Design Key Capabilities
INTEROPERABILITY | Reliability | Visualization | Standards | Real Data |
| Work with native DGN and incorporate legacy data and file formats such as DWG and point cloud data without conversion. | Collaborate on projects of any size without size limitations, crashes, or complications, knowing your system is always on. | Analyze and perform data visualizations on models based on their geometry or underlying attributes. | We're an industry standard, so your documentation is always standards-compliant. | Automatically design with accurate, real-world context using geospatial information from thousands of systems. |
Take a Closer Look at the Latest Advancements in MicroStation
Design Automation
Users can now expand MicroStation functionality with the availability of Python—the most popular, resource-rich, and scalable scripting language available. By integrating additional custom development environments within MicroStation, users now have endless possibilities for customized capabilities and automated workflows.
Design Automation Benefits:
▸ Customize, automate, and extend MicroStation functionalities
▸ Create and share custom features and automations
▸ Create and tailor capabilities to your projects or organizations specific needs
▸ Leverage the most popular, resource-rich, and scalable scripting language available natively through MicroStation’s API
Expanded Geospatial Context
MicroStation 2024’s Geospatial Context workflow enhancements enable users to fully leverage GIS service capabilities in design workflows.
By integrating live GIS data sources directly into the design environment, users now have access to a wide range of contextual data natively in MicroStation—informing the design process to help reduce costly reworks or design delays.
Expanded Geospatial Context:
▸ Access live data to create accurate, up-to-date designs
▸ Improve user experience, reduce errors, and save time
▸ Addition of OGC Web Feature Service, Esri ArcGIS REST Feature Service and Esri REST Map and Image Services
▸ Improved interoperability of Esri shapefiles
▸ Consolidated and improved functionality in the Geospatial Context Ribbon for easier access to tools
▸ Ability to save connections to the GIS services within workspaces and projects
▸ Ability to query data by fences and project boundaries, reducing amount of data and file sizes
Collaboration Workflows (Technology Preview)
MicroStation 2024 advances design workflows with new work-in-progress design collaboration within the CAD environment.
Users will now be able to view, analyze, and sync work-in-progress designs in near real-time. By eliminating latency issues and design delays, MicroStation 2024 allows you to rapidly optimize feedback and design iterations before sharing designs.
Collaboration Workflows:
▸ Easy peer-to-peer collaboration of designs
▸ View, analyze, and sync in near real-time
▸ No need to update and maintain large data connectors
▸ Reduce time to feedback or error discovery
▸ Near real-time data comparison to enhance decision-making
▸ Improved project performance
2D/3D Modeling Enhancements
MicroStation 2024 includes several major changes to modeling features and capabilities, including improved design workflows.
Breaking down design barriers with more intuitive usability, MicroStation 2024 enables a more intelligent design process—saving time on repetitive tasks and reducing design errors.
2D/3D Modeling Enhancements:
▸ Copy feature enables users to copy multiple complex features from one parametric solid to another
▸ New Parametric Array capability works with all MicroStation elements, not constrained to solids and features, empowering a more creative design environment
▸ Improved overall usability with intuitive design workflows
▸ Save time on repetitive tasks and reduce design errors
▸ Improve day-to-day design challenges for users
Text Editor Improvements
MicroStation’s text editor capabilities received major enhancements in MicroStation 2024 to save time and improve functionality.
These upgrades boast a 70% speed increase in displaying text, which includes editing and typing text, pasting text from another application into the CAD file, and scrolling through text.
Text Editor Improvements:
▸ 70% speed increase in displaying text
▸ More modern and intuitive interface
▸ Improved copy/paste from other applications to the CAD file
▸ Faster text scrolling
Drawing Production Improvements
MicroStation 2024 includes several drawing production improvements to save you valuable time, reduce errors, and equip you to deliver better projects with higher confidence.
Reports Improvements consolidate information within the DGN into a single place.
Tables Improvements include brand-new Excel integration, improving table place times from several minutes to mere seconds.
Sheet Indexing Workflow Enhancements allow users to reference sheet indexes with WorkSets, enabling the creation of a Master Sheet Index with multiple Child Sheet Indices.
Drawing Production Improvements:
▸ Reduction of errors and rework when using configured reports
▸ Improved performance and fidelity of Excel Tables in MicroStation
▸ Eliminate the need for costly workarounds or third-party applications
▸ Work across multiple WorkSets to save time
▸ Improve timelines that result in better project outcomes