MicroStation
Bring Your Vision to Life
MicroStation is the only computer-aided design software for infrastructure design, helping architects and engineers like you bring their vision to life, present their designs to their clients, and deliver their projects to the community.
MicroStation is Infrastructure Design.
It's Simple, really.
MicroStation not only builds the foundation of infrastructure design projects, but is also the foundation of your design and engineering solution. Providing you power, flexibility, and best-in-class features, without requiring add-ons, MicroStation makes it easy to work the way you want, leaving you time to do what you do best. With MicroStation, you can minimize risks, accelerate automation, and win more work.
Design
Create geospatially enabled 2D and 3D drawings for infrastructure projects and deliver them on time and on budget, even as project complexities and scale increase.
Communicate
Quickly produce better documents that communicate your design intent. Documents are industry compliant so you can stamp designs with ease and confidence.
Deliver
A common environment connects your applications, data, and teams, so that you can reliably deliver on even the most demanding projects.
MicroStation
MicroStation is easy to use and master through a configurable environment with in-app learning, video tutorials, and extensive support that helps you become an expert in no time.
*Prices vary per region. For more options, see licensing and subscriptions section.
Key Capabilities For Infrastructure Design
INTEROPERABILITY
Work with native DGN and incorporate legacy data and file formats like DWG and point-cloud data without conversions.
Reliability
Work collaboratively on any size project without size restrictions, crashes, or complications, knowing your system will always be on.
Visualization
Analyze and perform data visualizations on models based on their geometry or underlying attributes.
Standards
We’re an industry standard, which means your documentation is always standards compliant.
Real Data
Design with accurate real-world context, automatically, with geospatial information from thousands of systems.
Featured User Stories
Big or Small, MicroStation Does it All
Whether designing your dream boat or engineering world-class infrastructure design, MicroStation is helping users find creative solutions to their client’s unique challenges.
meet dan
Visualization
You’re not going to believe Dan’s story! During the week, he uses MicroStation for large infrastructure projects. But he decided to use MicroStation and a 3D printer to create a small auto part, saving his holiday weekend (and some money).
Meet Rino
Interoperability
Rino and his dream team needed to create over 300 square meters of furniture surface, encompassing 46,000 components. Enter the flexibility and power of MicroStation 3D.
Meet Grant
3D Modeling
Kodiak started designing in 3D with MicroStation nearly 20 years ago. Find out why Grant still says “MicroStation’s AccuDraw is undersold. I think it’s the best feature for 3D modeling.”
Resources
FAQs
MicroStation is the computer-aided design (CAD) software that users worldwide trust for creating precise 2D and 3D drawings for infrastructure projects. Engineers, architects, and construction professionals openly collaborate to deliver inspiring projects, utilizing the industry leading DGN file format.
- Draft, annotate, and freely design 2D geometry and 3D models at any scale
- Ensure project quality by enforcing CAD standards with robust configuration capabilities
- Utilize data needed to deliver your projects, no matter when it was created
- Produce consistent, high-quality deliverables, such as paper plots, reports, 2D/3D PDFs, iModels, and 3D models
MicroStation provide a comprehensive set of 3D CAD capabilities which include creating models and renderings, performing various analyses, animations, and more.
The price of MicroStation varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Bentley’s eStore. When you purchase through the eStore, you get a Virtuoso Subscription. This means you get the software and “Keys” (tokens) to redeem for customizable training, mentoring, and consulting services.
The average user reported three to six months with adequate training to become proficient in MicroStation. Every software purchase through the eStore comes as a bundle with “Keys” or training credits to ensure you get the training and expert services you need to get started right away. We call this bundle the Virtuoso Subscription.
Your purchase of MicroStation includes 3 Keys. You can redeem the Keys for expert services such as consulting, mentoring, customized instruction, one-to-one mentoring and/or on-demand learning.
You can learn about MicroStation for free by watching the tutorial videos. Additionally, you can request an evaluation license from our product sales engineers via the Chat Bot on this page. Access all the learning you need here.
The differences between AutoCAD and MicroStation can be found on our comprehensive list of over 100 MicroStation features and capabilities. Check out the feature-by-feature comparison between MicroStation and AutoCAD. Compare now
Check out the latest release announcement on our Bentley Communities forum. For existing users, explore what’s new for you in MicroStation 2024!
Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon based processor 2.0 GHz or greater
Operating System
Windows 10 (64-bit) – Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education
Windows 8 (64-bit) – Standard, Pro, and Enterprise
Windows 8.1 (64-bit) – Standard, Pro, and Enterprise
Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit) – Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (64 bit) – Standard and Enterprise
Windows Server 2012 (64 bit)
Internet connectivity is required to use some of the features of the product and installation of software pre-requisites.
Microsoft Internet Explorer, minimum v8.0, recommended v9.0 or later, with 128-bit cipher strength is also required.
Also supports Citrix XenApp 6.5 64-bit on Windows Server 2008 R2
Memory
> 1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended, (more memory typically results in better performance)
Disk Space
1.25 GB minimum free disk space
For the most up-to-date system requirements, visit Bentley Communities.
