As a responsible vendor we work hard to make sure users of our software can work a little easier when collaborating on large projects. In many ways V8 was a super-set of both products.Īccording to Joe Croser, BentleyÝs Global Marketing Director for Platform products, ýWe develop software for the worldÝs infrastructure – projects are large and necessarily collaborative and smooth collaboration is paramount to successful projects. For V8, Bentley pulled off a pretty impressive feat – it took the feature set of AutoCAD and most of its entities and added them into MicroStation, together with historical MicroStation commands and new V8 functionality. For many years, MicroStation customers had some support for DWG provided by Bentley but the company was always under fire for the ease of use and lack of success that customers were feeling around integrating into a DWG-based workflow. One of the key technologies in the V8 Generation, as Bentley called it, was the adoption of a much better way to work with its nemesisÝ CAD file format, DWG. First off, itÝs worth having a mini-recap of what was added in the first instalment of V8, V8 2004 Edition and then V8 XM Edition. ItÝs taken five years to deliver and has been completed over two major releases, but Bentley SystemsÝ MicroStation has been rebuilt in front of the eyes of its customers, while many of them were actually sat on top of it! To look at MicroStation V8 XM (the most recent update) on its own and judge what Bentley has been doing with MicroStation would be wrong.
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Unique at the moment, MicroStation can load up a PDF and use the engineering information as a reference file, here providing the plan of a building which has been modelled in 3D in MicroStation V8 XM