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Nicholas D.

Civil Structural Designer

Oil & Energy

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

1/23/2015

"MicroStation V8i Select Series 3 is a great all around drafting/design tool."

5/5

What do you like best about MicroStation?

I love Microstation's AccuDraw feature. It makes drawing so much faster and more precise. There are also many other features of the program that I like. References is a very powerful tool here. You can manipulate a reference file straight from your current file. You can change color, lineweight, linetype, transparency of individual levels. You can copy in (merge) only the items you want to instead of the whole reference, and many other features that make my job so much easier. You can have up to 8 views open on your screen, and its nice to be able to work in tandem with different views with different displays, overrides, attributes, etc. The Fence command lets you do many things with a certain boundary area of your choice. Line-types 0-7 auto-regenerate so you never have to use 'linetype scale', In conclusion, there are many great features of this program and I MicroStation will always be my first choice for drafting/design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MicroStation?

Text editing with the text box gets some getting used to - it would be nice to edit the text and have the tools right in the text location. MicroStation pattern hatching only uses cells to fill in the symbols. It would be nice to have a pattern library like AutoCAD to fill/flood in the whole area. Also, MicroStation is not the friendliest program to use right out of the box, however, after learning some tricks and shortcuts, I feel it is far superior to any other drafting program I have tried. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MicroStation:

I recommend this program for drafting and 3D modeling. It will take some getting used to however, especially if you are used to AutoCAD. I remember kicking and screaming for about a year until I started familiarizing myself with the capabilities and learning how to harness the power of MicroStation. If you want a software that is more of an all-in-one program as opposed to just a drafting program, I would highly consider Bentley Microsation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MicroStation solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work for an Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, and Construction company. We design many items from various disciplines including Civil, Structural, Mechanical, and Electrical. MicroStation is our primary program used because it is reliable, accurate, and produces great deliverables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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