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With MicroStation Update 17 it is now easier to create and apply display rules and share your data. New tools and enhancements are introduced to streamline your workflows and let you export your data with display rules. 

The new Apply Display Rule tool will let you find and apply a display rule to the active view (or all views)  without having to dig into the Display Styles dialog and settings.

Capability to Export with Display Rules to DWG, DXF, or DGN formats is added. This will create files of the above formats using the symbology applied by the active display rules.

Both, Apply Display Rule and Export with display rules are available as a technology preview in this update.

You can now create display rules more effectively and with greater flexibility. The property picker in the condition editor has been improved, offering new capabilities and a better experience for creating rules, while at the same time reducing the number of rules needed in many cases.

• Elements’ Classes are grouped into a list for easy access. You can view the available classes in a drop-down menu. These host classes contain one or more property types and will be available depending on the content of the file. For example, if the file has item types attached then the list will display the Item Types class.
  
  
• The “show classes” button now makes it possible to see classes for the selected element only. Select the element and select this option in the condition editor to view classes specific to the element. You no longer have to search through a long list of properties to find the one needed.
  
  
• The search field lets you quickly search for desired classes and properties.
  
  
• The “like” operator is now available for many more conditions. The “Like” operator supports wildcards, which means you can now use a wildcard character when creating many more types of rules. An example is the creation of a rule, based on Level criteria: previously you had to create an individual rule for each level you wanted to include, while now you can create just one rule using an expression like *glass*, which will include all levels including “glass” in their names.

If you use Display Rules in your designs often, Update 17 makes it easy for you to apply display rules to any View. You will see the new Apply Display Rule icon in the Presentation ribbon group under the View tab:

From the Apply Display Rule tool setting dialog, you can choose the display rule to be applied to the active View, open the Display Rules dialog,  or choose to the selected display rule to all views.

The Export with Display Rules option in the File > Export > Common File Types menu lets you export your data as currently displayed in the active View, including applied display rules, to DWG/DXF and DGN formats.

With this new capability, you can close the loop on data-driven workflows, as you can now not only change the presentation of your data on your screen but also export this view to DWG, for even smarter collaboration.

As an example, you can create rules for re-symbolizing your model in one click for different use cases and send customized drawings to different contractors, without having to create different versions of the same model and manually change levels or symbology.

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Create new configurations and manage existing configurations using the Manage Configuration tool available in Update 17. You can also create a ProjectWise Drive configuration to work with your project data and synchronize it with ProjectWise 365 work area connections.

You can access this feature from the WorkPage in MicroStation under Configuration. You can add new custom configurations and systematically manage the settings of existing configurations using this tool.

You can access the New Configuration or the Edit Configuration dialog by selecting Add or Edit button in the Manage Configurations dialog. 

Here you can choose the type of configuration you want to create. You can choose from Local, Network/Shared Drive, or ProjectWise Drive configuration.

You can view and make changes to the configuration variables for the WorkSpaceSetup.cfg in the Workspace Setup section. Turn on the Workspace Setup slider to see and manage the configuration variables.

Read – To Create a new Configuration

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Share your feedback on these new enhancements on our community forums. If you have an idea or a suggestion, please reach out to us on the Ideas forum.

If you often work with areas in your design, Update 17 introduces the Area tools ribbon group under the Analyze tab to simplify things for you. The tools available in this group will help you measure and calculate area and place it as text in the design. This will save you several clicks and a lot of time.

You can customize the area text by setting:

• prefix
• suffix
• text style
• parameters - conversion factor and decimal accuracy

You can also place the text as placeholder Text Fields.

Measure Area and Place Text - measure the area of any closed 2D shape and place the area as text in the design. 

You can choose to measure area using following methods:

• element selection
• flood
• union
• intersection
• by points

To learn step by step how to use this tool and the various methods available with it read product Help.

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Calculate Area and Place Text - calculate area by adding or subtracting areas of two or more shapes and place it as text.

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Place Area and Place Text – Place an area block to measure the area and place area text. Quickly create an area block using data points and place its area as text in two simple clicks. 

Area Tool Parameters – set parameters for area text to be placed in the design here. Create frequently used prefixes and suffixes. Set conversion factor and decimal accuracy and other customizations as per project needs.

Share your feedback on these new enhancements on our community forums. If you have an idea or a suggestion, please reach out to us on the Ideas forum.

Design data is often shared as PDF files in design projects. If your project workflows involve working with design data that is shared as PDF files, you may want to bring this design data into a DGN and modify it as needed.

PDF as a raster attachment was previously supported in MicroStation. In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17, there is a new option to import a PDF to get vector data from PDFs into MicroStation.

Importing a PDF provides the option to import vector primitives, raster and text data from 2D PDF file to DGN file. You can open, reference or import a PDF file in a DGN. Each page in the PDF displays as a separate model in the DGN.

>>Opening a PDF:

• You can open a single page or multipage PDF documents in MicroStation. The PDF will open with each page as a separate model in the DGN.
• The vector elements in the PDF will display as design elements (lines, curves, arcs, circle, etc..)
• Text elements will display as text
• Any raster elements will appear as raster attachments in the model
• The elements in the PDF after opening in MicroStation will open read-only and cannot be modified.

>> Attaching a PDF as a Reference:

• You can attach a PDF as a reference in a DGN using the Attach Reference dialog.

In the Model field select the desired page number to attach from the PDF (Single /Multipage)

• The PDF is attached as a reference to the active model.
• All vector elements in the PDF will display as design elements. These elements can be selected to view their properties but cannot be modified.
• Text elements from the PDF will appear as Text
• Raster elements from the PDF will appear as raster attachments
• All content from the PDF will display as read-only in the model.

>> Importing a PDF:

• For PDFs with multiple pages. You can select the desired page to import using Options button
• Vector elements from PDF file will display as design elements in the DGN (eg: Lines, Line Strings, Curves, Polygons, ect..)
• Text elements will display as text in the DGN
• You can select these elements, view their properties, and modify them as needed
• Any raster elements imported from PDF will display as raster attachments in the DGN and cannot be modified

The Attach iTwin tool in MicroStation is available as a part of the Collaboration tools, and lets you attach an iModel as a reference in a DGN. Tools in the Collaborate ribbon tab in MicroStation bring together collaboration, synchronization, and issue resolution tools for better coordination among team members.

In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17, Attach iTwin tool includes some improvements.

1)Search allows you to search for an iModel by name. Filter allows you to filter your search by Name, Owner, and Downloads State, and Ascending or Descending order.

2) Back takes you back to the Attach iModel as Reference section of the dialog

3)Attach iModel as Reference dialogue has a new model-tree dialogue, that contain more controls and allow for greater flexibility while attaching iModels as reference.

You can check models you want to display (attach /detach), snap, locate and apply transparency.

4) Filter lets you filter the list of models based on values you enter.

5) When data in a model uses a Geographic Coordinate System, MicroStation can easily reference data that is also geographically aware into the model. While attaching an iModel, in MicroStation, if both the reference iModel and the active model have a GCS, the Attach iModel as Reference dialog enables the AEC transform option.

The AEC Transform option in the Attach iModel as Reference dialog, will perform an AEC Transformation to align the GCSs in the iModel and the active model during attachment.

Note: the AEC Transform option will be enabled only if the reference iModel and the active model have a GCS. If both or either of the model is missing GCS information, this option will not be enabled in the Attach iModel as reference dialog. If both the reference iModel and the active model have the same GCS then an AEC Transform is not needed.

With an AEC transform, MicroStation calculates the linear transformation to give the best approximation to the results. The approximation is acceptable for smaller-scale data, such as most man-made structures that occupy less than a square kilometer.

With the reference model and the active model GCSs aligned it will be easier to place and manipulate elements in a relative coordinate system.

Note: AEC Transform will also work for iModels with a GCS with Helmert transformation in the coordinate system.

6) Allow Referencing the active model allows self-referencing of same model from iModel to the active model while attaching. This option is enabled if the active model is previously synchronized with the iModel.

7) Update iModel Attachment is enabled when the attached iModel is updated in the iModelHub and updates the attached iModel for any changes made to it in the iModelHub.

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8) There is a drop-down menu at the top right-hand side of the dialog which lists all the attached iModels.

MicroStation Update 17 now helps you to keep your components up to date with the new Auto Update capability.

When attaching a cell library, if one of its parametric components has the same name as a parametric component already present in the DGN file, MicroStation will show a dialog that will let you replace the existing components with the new ones.

This dialog will let you choose from one of the following options:

• Update – will update all instances of the cell in the DGN to the latest version from the library attached.
• Don’t Update - will not update existing instances of the cell in the DGN and will place the older version of the cell.
• Cancel – will cancel the operation.
• Don’t show again check box – will apply your selected option (Update, Don’t Update) and will not show the alert the next time you attach the cell library.

If you choose to not Auto-Update, you can then update the cells individually by right-clicking on their entry in the cell dialog 

You can also choose to automatically update cells by selecting the Auto-Update option in the File drop-down menu in the Cell Library dialog:

Cell Library - Auto update option

You can choose from the following options:

• Always – will always update the cell definition to the latest version in the library
• Never – will not update the cell definition to the latest version in the library
• Ask – (default) will launch an alert allowing you to choose an action (Update, Don’t Update, Cancel)

The default option for the Auto-Update setting is Ask.

Do you like Parametric Modeling and components, but you wished working with parametric components was easier and more flexible?

We have great news! MicroStation Update 17 introduces some new features to make you work more productively.

You can now select specific types of parametric components, and in different ways.

Right-Click Menu

There are two new ways for quickly selecting all parametric components of the same type (and size) of the one you are interested on:

• Select Same Type and Size
• Select Same Type

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To select specific Parametric Components Using the Element Selection Dialog

You can now select Parametric Components of a specific type and variation from the Power Selector tool:

We have great news! MicroStation Update 17 introduces lots of new features to help you be more productive and streamline your workflows.

The Fixed 2D Constrain can now create Anchor points. Using an Anchor Point will prevent the shape from moving or rotating, while a simple fixed-point will only make the selected point fixed for resolving the degrees of freedom. Additionally, you can check or toggle a fixed or anchor point from the Properties dialog:

The improved Auto 2D Constrain tool allows you now to constrain a shape, capturing its current geometry configuration using both geometric and dimensional constraints. It can also create variables and let you add a fixed Anchor point.

We hope you enjoy these new features, and you can work better with MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17.

Do you like Parametric Modeling, but you wished creating content was simpler and quicker?

We have great news! MicroStation Update 17 introduces new features to help you become more productive and streamline your workflows.

Enhancements in Variables Dialog

The Variables Dialog is used to create and manage variables and variations for parametric elements.

Check out the video underneath to see our various enhancements:

• Enhanced Toolbar - the dialog toolbar has a few new tools added, and existing tools rearranged for faster access.

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• Support for folders

We have introduced the capability of creating folders in the variables dialog, to make it easier for you to manage your data. You can place the variables in a folder by copy/paste or drag and drop. Empty folders are not supported, this means when a folder becomes empty it will be removed from the DGN.

You can place the variables in a folder by copy/paste or drag and drop. Empty folders are not supported, this means when a folder becomes empty it will be removed from the DGN.

• File and Tools Menu Option & New Icon for Expression Driven Variables & Minimum and Maximum Range Values for a variable & Expression Failure Value

We have added a new icon to identify the variables that are driven by an expression.

Also, you can now set a minimum or maximum value of a variable in its definition in the Variables Dialog. This will help define a safe, allowed range for each variable. You can also use an expression to define the minimum or maximum values.

Moreover, we have added Expression Failure Value to the Properties of a variable in the Variables Dialog. This field is used to define a safe value that will be applied as an active value if there is a mathematical failure value in the Expression used in the same property.

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We have great news! MicroStation Update 17 introduces new features to help you become more productive and streamline your workflows.

SYNCHRONIZING PROJECTWISE DRIVE FROM PROJECTWISE 365 

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PROJECTWISE DRIVE CONFIGURATION IN MICROSTATION 

The Manage Configuration feature in MicroStation helps you systematically access and manage multiple configurations. You can also create custom configurations and edit configuration settings using Manage Configurations. 

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ProjectWise Drive – Everything you need to know!

ProjectWise Drive is an application that provides a link between your local computers and the ProjectWise 365 documents and Work Area Connections.

ProjectWise Drive is the application that any ProjectWise Web user can use to sync work area connections with their computer, allowing you to access and work on your ProjectWise documents directly from File Explorer or your desktop applications.

Your administrator configures which work areas are available to you inside ProjectWise Web.

(ProjectWise Web is the ProjectWise 365 service available for each ProjectWise project that provides secure, web access to selected work areas from your ProjectWise data sources. Any user who is a participant of the work area can log in to the work area from ProjectWise Web.

PROJECTWISE DRIVE INTEGRATION WITH MICROSTATION

ProjectWise Drive is now available as a companion application with MicroStation CONNECT Edition. ProjectWise Drive offers a natural folder structure, with all files instantly accessible from the desktop. When you install and synchronize a project in ProjectWise Web, the work area connection in the project that is enabled for ProjectWise Drive becomes available in the ProjectWise Drive node in File Explorer

You can instantly begin working on the documents in your project as if you are working on files and folders on your local system. You can open documents directly from your desktop applications for viewing and editing. From the ProjectWise Drive node in File Explorer, you can download documents (or entire folders), check out and check in documents, and add new folders to ProjectWise.

INSTALLING AND USING PROJECTWISE DRIVE

You can install ProjectWise Drive while installing MicroStation. Select the checkbox corresponding to ProjectWise Drive on the Features page during installation.

ProjectWise Drive option on Features page in the installer:

ProjectWise Drive option on Features page in the installer

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The Smart Match tool (Match All Element Settings tool) is used to change all active element attributes to match with the attributes of an element in a design. In MicroStation Update 17 you can also set the active Element Template to match with that of an element in the DGN.

Earlier you could not match Element Template information while using SmartMatch. But now you can.

(Technology Preview) Reports Definition Enhancement

With Update 17, a wide range of shortcuts have been added to the Reports dialog to improve your productivity. Select or create a new report definition and simply right click to see these settings. 

•  Add Calculated Column – The Add Calculated Column allows you to add expressions and other details in the Column Definition section.
•  Add Sr. No. Column – This setting will allow you to first define the format of the Sr.No to be displayed in the column.
•  Show All Columns – The Show All Column allows you to hide or show the column by clicking on the eye icon.

(Technology Preview) Place Report as Table using Table Seed: Advanced Setting

With the improved settings and with the help of a dgnlib you can now place an entire report as a Table in the design file using a table seed. This Advanced setting is made available in the Place Table dialog.

 Additionally, the new “Transpose Table” setting allows you to transpose the Columns and Rows in a horizontal or vertical layout.

(Technology Preview) Table Style – Save Style

 This newly added ribbon group offers the Save Style setting. With the help of this setting, you can save any style that you defined in the design file.

This tool is available in the Table Style ribbon group (Drawing >Layout > Table Style >Save Style). 

 Copy and Paste Rows and Columns in Tables

With Update 17, Table enhancement gives you the ability to copy the entire selected row(s) or column(s) and paste it next to another row or column.

Find out what else is new in the New in MicroStation Update 17 video. Share your feedback on these new enhancements on our community forums. If you have an idea or a suggestion, please reach out to us on the Ideas forum. 

Item Types

MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17 introduces several enhancements and new features for Item Types:

Automatically create Text fields from Item Types properties

It is now possible to create Text Fields easily, directly from item Types properties. You will find a new toggle beside Item Types properties in the following dialogs:

• Item Types manager
• Attach Item Types
• Edit Item

This toggle is off by default. You can set the default status of the toggle when creating an Item Types from the Item Type manager dialog and override this default behavior when attaching the item types from the Attach Item Types dialog. The Edit Item dialog now lets you also change the Text Field status of the selected Item Types' properties.

It is possible to select the Text Style to be used in these text fields from the Attach and Edit Item dialogs.

We have also added a new option in the View Attributes dialog to show or hide all Item Types Text Fields.

Item Types propagation

With this new release, Item Types attached to an element will be propagated to all the resulting elements of a break-type operation, such as line break, trim and drop. In case of dropping a cell, it is possible to decide if keeping the Item Types attached to the cell header or any of its sub-elements, in case there is a conflict as a result of the drop operation.

The MicroStation product team is pleased to announce the availability of MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 16.2 (10.16.02.34) on Software Downloads and as a downloadable update from the CONNECTION Client. This MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update includes:

• Stability Enhancements
• New JT Exporter engine
• JT Exporter Options Tab: Export BRep/Mesh
• RealDWG 2022 Support

If you would like the setup executable of MicroStation CONNECT Edition x64 (Full) Update 16.2, please follow these steps to download it from Software Downloads Center:
1. Sign in to https://connect.bentley.com
2. Choose Software Downloads from "My Services" section
3. Select the Brand "MicroStation"
4. Download the latest release by clicking on the arrow to expand the selection and then on MicroStation CONNECT Edition x64 Update 16 version 10.16.02.xx

Important installation requirements and notices are found in the Readme.

This release includes security improvements, the details will be found in our advisory page website located in our Trust Center here: https://www.bentley.com/trust-center.