What's New?
What's New?
What's New?
What's New?
What's New?
What's New?
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MicroStation V8 represents a major step forward in the evolution of the entire MicroStation product line. For the first time in MicroStation's history, the fundamental file format is substantially redesigned and upgraded. The new format permits MicroStation and applications to add more intelligence to the models that users create, enabling information to be created and manipulated as components. The expanded data constructs eliminate a number of constraints that were previously imposed on the product, and improve the reliability and robustness of MicroStation, Bentley's Engineering Configurations, and applications that run with MicroStation.
The features of MicroStation V8 represent the beginning of the improvements made possible by the upgraded data storage; future releases of MicroStation will take further advantage of this improved flexibility.
Some immediate benefits result:
Data integrity issues and security issues are more easily resolvable.
Disk storage requirements are reduced — MicroStation V8 DGN files are significantly smaller than corresponding MicroStation v7 design files — 25-50% — depending on the type of data.
Great strides have been made in eliminating issues that caused inefficiencies in workflows where both MicroStation and AutoCAD are in use on design projects, and where final delivery in DWG format is required. See the section Interoperability with DWG File Format.
MicroStation V8 enhancements that are by-products of the introduction of the MicroStation V8 DGN file format are noted below.
Production Enhancements