EXTON, Pa. – The City of Phoenix, Ariz., has acquired Bentley’s SewerGEMS multiplatform software for sanitary sewer systems to enhance its ability to analyze, design, and operate its extensive wastewater infrastructure. The infrastructure serves approximately 1.5 million residents and includes about 5,000 miles of sewer mains and 92,000 sewer manholes.
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When you start a Windows application, most of them will create and open a new file. But not MicroStation. MicroStation have two types of file: 2D DGN and 3D DGN. DGN is stand for design file. Not limited to DGN, you can also create a new DWG file. If you are not familiar with this file type, it’s AutoCAD file. We will discuss how you can create your own workspace, create new files; and save file and settings.
You can create multiple workspaces in MicroStation. If you need to design different drawings for different industries, you can set each of them in a separate workspace. This will avoid you to arrange tools and interface each time you need to create drawings in different industry. You can also use workspace if you have multiple users working on the same workstation. Let’s create a new workspace that you will use for this tutorial until the end. Open your MicroStation. If you already open it, close your file. You will see MicroStation Manager. From user option list, select new… MicroStation will ask you to give description for this user configuration. Type MicroStation tutorial then click OK. We have defined a user configuration for this tutorial. Now let’s create a new project. From project option list, select new. Give name for this project: MicroStation Tutorial Files. And give description: Tutorial files from www.cad-notes.com. Of course, you can use your own description MicroStation will create a folder at this location (for Windows Vista): C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation\WorkSpace\Projects\MicroStationTutorialFiles If you use Windows XP, you can find it in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bentley\… folder. I have prepared all tutorial files we will use. Download them here, extract, and paste them into the folder. The zip file contain two folders: DGN and CELL. Select both of them, copy, and paste them inside MicroStationTutorialFiles folder. When Windows ask you to overwrite those two folder, click yes. Those folder is still empty anyway. Up to this point, you have set user configuration and tutorial project. It may look complicated, but trust me, it’s not Workspace can help you to manage your files for different users, different project. But it doesn’t mean that you have to save all files in that folder. You can still save your files to your desktop, C:\data folder, etc. Let’s try to create a new file. On the upper right of MicroStation Manager, you should see new file button. Click it. Give the file name My First Drawing. Do not click save yet. Check the seed file. If it’s not showing seed2D.dgn, click browse and select it. Seed file is a drawing you can start with. Other applications call it a template file.
Creating Workspace
Preparing Tutorial Files
You will love using workspace. Try to change the users and projects that available on the list. Then change it back to our tutorial project. Very good for navigation, right?Create New File
Click save. You will see MicroStation created a new file with that name. Select it, and click open.
I know, it’s a bit different with other applications. But it’s not difficult, isn’t it?
Set your Working Unit
MicroStation works differently in handling working unit compared to AutoCAD. I feel like I have to write about this at very early stage, so if you are an AutoCAD user, you don’t get confused.
While in AutoCAD you can work with any working unit, and change it later, you can’t work that way in MicroStation. You have to define your working unit at the very beginning. Before you start drawing. You can check your working unit by accessing menu settings>design file. Click on category working units on the left.
By default, in country using metric, MicroStation will define the master unit (MU) as meters and sub unit as millimeters. If it’s not your working units, change it now. After you finish, click OK.
That’s how you create a new file. I’ll stop right here now, and we will discuss more about working units.
To Understand Working Units
Have you copied the tutorial files to our tutorial project? Click open. You should see several files if you have copied them. Find working_unit.dgn and open it. Don’t laugh at the design Yes, it is a very simple drawing.
See the dimension. They show measurement in mm. Open design file settings, and change the MU to meters. Close the dialog and see what happen.
The dimensions are showing meters now!
Now try to activate Place Smartline.
Click anywhere on your drawing area, an look at the AccuDraw. It’s showing measurement in meters. Click several times to draw lines. Right click to finish. When MicroStation ask you to choose right click button function, just let it be default value. Click OK.
Try to change the working unit again. Now try to place smartline again. You will see the measurement showing different scale, even you create approximately line with same length! Now it’s using the new working units. So don’t forget to check your drawing unit first!
Saving File and Settings
Close MicroStation. Did MicroStation ask you to save your design file? No. You placed some lines before, when you open the file again, you will still see the lines. Even you didn’t save the file. MicroStation automatically save it to your file, every time you create an object. It can be a good news for you, or maybe a bad news for some of you. However, I still recommend you to save your file regularly by accessing file>save or press [ctrl] + S.
But now look at the dimensions. We have change the working units to meters (or you may have changed it to something else) but it still showing millimeters! You need to save settings separately with saving file. There are a lot of settings you can save. We will get to this later. You san save the settings by accessing menu file>save settings or press [ctrl] + F.
Source: CAD Notes – Working With Workspace and Design Files
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards – At this invitation-only gathering of top users from around the globe, Bentley Systems, Incorporated, observed its 25th year as a company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world.
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I wrote this tutorial years ago, while I still working in a Bentley reseller. I wrote it in Indonesian, when it’s still V8XM. I decided to rewrite it in English, and update some screenshot with V8i. Thanks for my partner, I can get 30 days trial to do so. I know there are not many MicroStation tutorial available. That’s why I decided to share this on my blog. I hope this tutorial series will be helpful to you. Enjoy!
MicroStation is a Windows compliant software. As any other software, you can start it from Windows start menu, double click the icon from desktop, or clicking the icon in quick launch if you put it there. When you start MicroStation, you will see a dialog box: MicroStation Manager. Not like another popular CAD platform, MicroStation allows you to select user, project, and interface at this dialog. You can find these options on lower right of this dialog.
MicroStation Manager
Let’s change the user to examples. And change the project to building. What we just did is we set the folder to examples>building at default location. This is where is it on Vista. If you use XP, you will see it on different folder.
Let’s just open folder drawings, and select file BSI300-GroundFloorPlan.dgn. You should see it because it’s included in default installation. Open it.
MicroStation Interface
This is how MicroStation looks like. It’s not as complicated as this actually. I just arrange them closer so you can see all components in limited image.
Menu
I assume that you already get used to Windows applications. Menu in MicroStation work just the same. You can access all MicroStation tools and settings through available items in MicroStation menu.
Task Navigation
Task navigation is where your tools are.
You can change active task from tasks list. Let’s say you need to give your objects dimension. If you want to focus to dimension tools only, you can switch the active task to drawing>dimension. You will only see dimension tools in active task.
Main tasks are the tools you will see no matter what your active task is. Main task mostly consist tools related to objects manipulations and modifications.
See several icons next to active task title bar? You can change the display by clicking it. Choose which you think suit you most.
Now try to click the icon. That will activate the tool. Yeah, aren’t all Windows application works that way? But now try to click on Place SmartLine tool, hold your mouse button. What do you see? You will see all similar tools to create lines! You can select any other tools you want.
Try to click the ‘open linear as toolbox’ from the selection. That will open a toolbar for linear tools.
Activating and Using tools
Now you already know how to start MicroStation. You know where you can access MicroStation tools. You just need to click on a tool from the list to activate it.
So how do you know what tool is active? You can see it from status bar and from tool settings.
Tool settings will show you only settings related to active tool. In this example, place smartline. Try to click several points in your drawing area. There you go! It’s easy isn’t it?
Next, we will learn how to work with files.
Source: CAD Notes – Introduction to MicroStation
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Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that the Emirate of Sharjah, Directorate of Town Planning and Survey (DTPS), United Arab Emirates, has successfully deployed Bentley’s fully integrated cadastral solution.
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Software Combines Powerful 3D Finite Element Method With Toolset of Commonly Used Engineering Tasks for Complete Structural Analysis and Design Functionality
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Davao City Water District (DCWD), the largest water district in the Philippines outside of Metro Manila, has selected Bentley’s WaterGEMS as its new water distribution modeling and analysis software.
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