MicroStation 2024
Your Trusted CAD Software For Infrastructure Modeling Just Got Even More Powerful
Your Trusted CAD Software for Infrastructure Modeling Just Got Even More Powerful
Bentley’s MicroStation 2024 delivers enhanced real-time collaboration, improved design automation, versatile customization, and seamless GIS integration. Experience faster designs and high project confidence today with MicroStation 2024.
Explore the New MicroStation 2024
Experience powerful, intuitive, and collaborative workflows like never before.
Design
Automation
Customize, automate, and extend MicroStation functionalities with Python—the most popular and scalable scripting language available.
Expanded
Geospatial Context
Access new, live GIS data sources natively to create accurate, up-to-date designs.
iTwin-enabled Collaboration Workflows (Technology Preview)
Unlock new, peer-to-peer collaboration. View, analyze, and sync work-in-progress iModels.
2D/3D Modeling
Enhancements
Utilize more intelligent and intuitive workflows to save time and enable a more creative design environment.
Text Editor
Improvements
Edit, type, paste, and display text 70% faster with optimized text editor improvements.
Drawing Production
Improvements
Save time, reduce errors, and deliver better projects with higher confidence using drawing production improvements.
Take a Closer Look at the Latest Advancements in MicroStation 2024
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
iTwin-enabled Collaboration Workflows (Technology Preview)
MicroStation 2024 advances iTwin-enabled design workflows with new work-in-progress (WIP) iModel collaboration within the CAD environment.
Users will now be able to view, analyze, and sync WIP iModels in near real-time. By eliminating latency issues and design delays, MicroStation 2024 allows you to rapidly optimize feedback and design iterations before pushing changes to a shared iModel.
iTwin-enabled Collaboration Workflows:
- Easy peer-to-peer collaboration of WIP iModels
- 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
iTwin-enabled Collaboration Technology Preview is available only for MicroStation users who currently do not use ProjectWise.
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
User
Quote
"MicroStation 2024 introduces game-changing features like the direct Python integration and the improved GIS connectivity, saving design time, enhancing the data quality, and making BIM model production faster and more accessible to a broader range of technical profiles in the organization.
