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2009-02-17 03:30 PM
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2009-02-18 01:04 PM
metanoia wrote:Have to agree, in general. I used Microstation 1989-1998. They embarked the sloping plane in the middle of the nineties. The final nail in the independant coffin was their agreement with Autodesk last year.
Bentley is a dead end.
2009-02-18 03:07 PM
2009-02-18 06:57 PM
JLKilgore wrote:Could you expand on what you mean by 'bridge'? What you are hoping to accomplish with this [third CAD]software?
I have been put in charge of exploring Bentley because of its ability to bridge different formats seeing that we use Revit and AC.
2009-02-18 07:02 PM
2009-02-18 07:22 PM
JLKilgore wrote:Why?What is M. Employer hoping to gain from this?
My employer wants to be versatile in all BIM products.
2009-02-18 07:29 PM
2009-02-18 10:38 PM
JLKilgore wrote:Microstation is strong in importing and exporting different DWG flavors, and you can save sets of different settings for different apps - as long as they all can handle DWG in some way. (Don't use Archicad's DGN translator).
.... Being able to draw from all the different formats into one central file.
Of course all this is coming from the sales pitch and I am not clear on whether it works well or not. From my experience, I am not going to be surprised if its not a little fluffed up in its claims.
2009-02-19 01:46 AM