MicroStation
The CAD of Choice
MicroStation is the CAD software you need that's trusted worldwide
Looking for a new CAD solution? MicroStation is the CAD software you need that’s trusted worldwide.
More sophisticated than just a tool, it enables you to:
- Deliver innovative designs and creative visualizations
- Consolidate critical project elements in a single environment
- Explore more design options and any data type
- Localize and add geospatial context
- Customize capabilities and automate workflows with Python
With MicroStation, you have the power, control, efficiency, and security to reliably deliver the smallest to the largest and most demanding infrastructure projects.
Get in touch – see why you should make the switch today.
Take a closer look at the latest advancements in MicroStation
- Design Automation
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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.
- 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
- Geospatial Context
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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.
- 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
- Modeling
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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.
- 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
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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.
- 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
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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.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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Delivering enhanced real-time collaboration, improved design automation, versatile customization, and seamless GIS integration, MicroStation 2024 now provides powerful, intuitive, and collaborative workflows like never before.
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