If you want to know how to do something in MicroStation, or if you've found a cool tip or trick that you'd like to share, you've come to the right place. MicroStationTips.com is a forum for MicroStation users and CAD Managers to share tips, tricks and how-tos. It is a platform for savvy users to share their bounty of knowledge with peers.
Monday 24th August, 09:00 – 16:30 HNTB 715 Kirk Drive Kansas City Missouri 64105 (to be confirmed) EatyourCAD is proud to announce the first US CAD Managers Forum event ever in the United States! We will be travelling over to... (Continue reading)
WHAT ORDER DOES MICROSTATION PROCESS MATERIALS? A question that is raised again and again is which material setting has priority? You can apply materials to an element in many different ways (in order of priority): TriForma Families & Parts, ByLevel,... (Continue reading)
From the AEC (UK) CAD Standards Committee: You’ll be pleased to hear that the AEC (UK) committee is getting back together on the 18th May. We’ve joined forces with the Revit User Group UK to begin work on the AEC... (Continue reading)
LOCAL MATERIALS By default, all palettes and their materials are stored locally in the DGN. Materials can also be stored in dgnlibs. When you open a palette (Settings>Rendering>Materials, Palette>Open), MicroStation displays all materials palettes (.pal, .dgn. .dgnlib and .mli) in... (Continue reading)
* = Updated 06 May 2009 Wasn’t it better when you used to get update emails from Bentley telling you when a new release of their products was available for download? Now you’re forever having to visit SELECT Downloads to... (Continue reading)
The CAD Managers Forum met in March to discuss Building Information Modelling. The aim was to identify the truth about BIM and exactly what impact it has on the design and construction process, in particular relation to the implementation of... (Continue reading)
Join the forum discussion on this post2009 FLUG Summer Conference Save the Date! May 28-29, 2009 Cape Canaveral, Florida Dear Bentley User, The Florida Local Users’ Group (FLUG) is hosting their annual summer conference May 28-29, 2009 at the Radisson... (Continue reading)
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VANILLA INSTALLATIONS We call an out of box installation, with no changes, a “Vanilla” (as in plain) installation. When you install MicroStation it asks you to define two install locations. (Never use the Download and Install option unless you are... (Continue reading)
Jamie Gwilliam, Autodesk’s visualisation and 3D application specialist discusses some of the basics composition and what we need to consider when creating a competent computer generated image and animation… A comprehensive and invaluable article for anyone involved in design visualisation... (Continue reading)