RY Ryan Y. In-Roads Practice Lead / Roadway Designer Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2017 "Microstation for Roadway Design and Drafting" 5/5 What do you like best about MicroStation? Light and fast (compared to AutoCAD) Quick load times Able to handle large infrastructure projects without slowing down. Power reference (xref) abilities Power geometry tools for creating accurate and "self-healing" roadway layouts 3D visualization tools built in Civil Cells = Dynamic blocks from AutoCAD on steroids. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MicroStation? Ribbon menu system is cumbersome No default keyboard shortcuts making switching between tools slow and cumbersome Use the AutoCAD colour table, it has more colours, better colours, and makes working with the rest of the world easier. Annotative text/dimensions setup is useless for roadway drawings. Scale changes of 1:1000 to 1:500 are too large for Microstation's implementation to work. AutoCAD is great for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MicroStation: If you are working on large complex projects, Microstation is the better overall product in comparison with Autodesk. I say this as a user of both. However, it is not perfect and there are plenty of great features in AutoCAD that are not present here. I just feel that the pros outweigh the cons, in favour of Microstation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MicroStation solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Microstation as a drafting tool for InRoads/OpenRoads designed projects. For roadway drafting it is more robust and a better overall package. For bridge structural drafting I prefer AutoCAD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite See what 407 reviewers think of MicroStation 4.0 out of 5 ยท Verified reviews from real users [ Read all reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/microstation/reviews)