What’s new in MicroStation 2024: Enhancing Infrastructure Design Workflows
In the world of infrastructure design, efficiency and collaboration are essential. The release of MicroStation 2024 brings a powerhouse of transformative features aimed at empowering infrastructure professionals like you to streamline your design workflows, enhance collaboration, and elevate project visibility. Here’s what MicroStation 2024 brings to the table:
Python Integration for Customization and Automation
In a move towards extended customization and automation capabilities, MicroStation 2024 offers integration with Python, the renowned scripting language, natively through MicroStation’s API. This integration offers an abundance of customization options, enabling you to tailor MicroStation to your specific needs. From automating repetitive tasks to creating customized tools and workflows to extend MicroStation’s functionality, Python integration fosters innovation and efficiency within your design process. Check out Bentley Communities to learn more about MicroStation’s Python integration.
Enhanced GIS Data Integration
MicroStation 2024 bolsters its GIS data integration capabilities by bringing additional live data sources into the design environment, allowing you to access a wide variety of contextual data natively in MicroStation. By harnessing surrounding information and contextual data, you gain invaluable insights during the design phase, mitigating costly reworks and design delays. Seamlessly integrating GIS data sources enhances the accuracy and reliability of infrastructure projects, fostering informed decision-making and robust designs.
New Collaboration Workflows
MicroStation 2024 introduces enhanced Collaboration Workflows, unlocking new, peer-to-peer collaboration to view, analyze, and synchronize in-progress design files. These new workflows provide detailed, real-time collaboration at every point in the design process to:
- Utilize a new concept of ad-hoc collaboration.
- Reduce feedback loop times and uncover potential errors earlier.
- Iterate and optimize designs with fewer reworks and redesigns.
- Leverage real-time comparison for more informed decision-making.
- Solve complex problems, faster, for improved project performance.
These new workflows revolutionize project visibility, empowering you to address complex engineering challenges with agility and precision. Learn more about collaboration workflows.
Improved 2D and 3D Modeling Tools
MicroStation 2024 brings many enhancements to its 2D and 3D modeling tools to optimize workflows and improve your experience. From intelligent design workflows that save time on repetitive tasks to performance improvements in text editing, MicroStation 2024 empowers you to create more accurate designs in less time. Additionally, enhancements to drawing products, brand new Excel integration, and transformed Sheet Indexing workflows, further streamline the design processes and boost productivity. Watch our “What’s New” video to see new modeling tools in action.
Enhanced Drawing Production Capabilities
MicroStation 2024 includes several drawing production improvements to save you valuable time, reduce errors, and equip you to deliver better projects with higher confidence. Streamlined Drawing Production improvements include:
- New Excel integration reducing the time it takes to place tables from minutes to seconds.
- Transformed Sheet Indexing workflows allowing you to reference sheet indexes from other WorkSets contained in the same WorkSpace. This helps create a Master Sheet Index that can have multiple Child Sheet Indices, providing more flexibility for sheet indexing.
- Enhancements to Reports and reporting capabilities.
MicroStation 2024 marks a significant milestone in infrastructure design, empowering professionals with advanced collaboration tools, customization options, and seamless integration capabilities. With its focus on enhancing project visibility, automating workflows, and improving user experience, MicroStation 2024 sets a new standard for efficient and collaborative infrastructure design. Discover more about What’s New in MicroStation 2024.
