We are happy to announce the launch of MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 15 which is a power-packed release, loaded with several new features, workflows, and enhancements. MicroStation team is constantly striving to prioritize users’ requests for enhancements to make their workflows seamless and friction-free. Efforts are also on to make…

MicroStation 2023 introduces several enhancements and new features. It also introduces support for a Side-by-Side installation which allows you to adopt MicroStation 2023 without upgrading your current installation of MicroStation CONNECT Edition. Following is a list of new features available in this release: · Geospatial Context Workflow · Issue Resolution…

In this blog you will find a variety of performance improvements that were made in MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16.1. Improvement in placing Parametric Cell with variable value Placing a parametric cell after editing the variable value, took longer in Update 16 as compared to Update 16.1. …

Placement Points Placement points are now also available for Graphic and Shared cells. You will see a new setting added to the View Attributes dialog, Presentation section for Placement Points. This global setting controls the visibility of placement points on cells placed in a DGN. …

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16.1 is a minor release of MicroStation focusing more on bug fixes, performance, and stability. An extensive list of bugs is fixed in this update and minor but crucial enhancements, mostly driven by user requests, have been made in this release. You can view the comprehensive…

Associative Extraction converting smart solids With update 16.1, Associative Extraction will treat a Smart solid as a Parametric solid before extracting an associative edge or face. After extraction, the parent Smart solid will get converted to a Parametric solid. You can select a solid. Then select a Face or an Edge on the solid to…

Update 16 introduces the ability to fix a desired Placement point while placing a parametric cell in a design. If you are using placement points (introduced in Update 15 as technology preview) in parametric modeling, you will find this enhancement very useful. You can now choose one of the placement…

In Update 16 datums based on the method “Grid Shift Files” will now indicate in their properties the grid file format, direction of application and the file name. This will apply to both system libraries and user libraries.

VUE offers many excellent ready-to-use rendering presets that can be used as-is. But if you wish to tweak and customize these rendering settings, Update 16 offers you the Render Setup Manager dialog to conveniently do so. The VUE Rendering engine, introduced as a technology preview in the last update, is…