MicroStation Integrations

Microsoft Visual Studio is the industry-leading integrated development environment (IDE) for building modern applications across desktop, mobile, cloud, and web. It empowers developers to write, refactor, debug, test, and deploy software faster with intelligent assistance powered by GitHub Copilot and AI-driven workflows. With Agent Mode, developers can automate repetitive coding tasks, optimize performance, and receive contextual help directly in the IDE. The suite includes Visual Studio 2022, the comprehensive IDE for .NET and C++ development on Windows, and Visual Studio Code, the lightweight, cross-platform editor supporting JavaScript, Python, and dozens of other languages. Visual Studio integrates seamlessly with Azure, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines, enabling teams to collaborate and ship code efficiently. Trusted by millions worldwide, Visual Studio provides the tools and intelligence developers need to build reliable, scalable, and secure applications from concept to release.

Mapping and analysis, location intelligence for everyone. Part of the Esri Geospatial Cloud, ArcGIS Online enables you to connect people, locations, and data using interactive maps. Work with smart, data-driven styles and intuitive analysis tools that deliver location intelligence. Share your insights with the world or specific groups. Build interactive maps that explain your data and encourage users to explore. Map your own data and gain perspective by adding the authoritative location-based data included in ArcGIS Online. Use smart mapping to guide your data exploration and visualization. Share your maps with specific groups or everyone. Create web apps with your maps for a focused, interactive experience. Then integrate the apps you built into your digital presence including your website, social media posts, and blog articles.

View and convert 2D and 3D DWG files for free. Open DWG files or convert them to work with older versions of AutoCAD software. DWG is a technology environment that includes the capability to mold, render, draw, annotate, and measure. It is also a reference to .dwg, the native file format for AutoCAD and many other CAD software products. Autodesk created .dwg in 1982 with the very first launch of AutoCAD software. DWG files contain all the information that a user enters in a CAD drawing. This data can include designs, geometric data, maps and photos. The .dwg file format is one of the most used design data formats, found in nearly every design environment.

Project delivery has never been more complex. Move beyond engineering work-in-progress to digital delivery for more efficient, collaborative, and sustainable infrastructure design. Take advantage of digital twins and Bentley’s infrastructure schemas to leverage data across projects, maximize insights, learnings, and reuse from previous projects. With new tools to make the most of your data, ProjectWise makes it easy to innovate without disruption in the face of today’s complexities. Supercharge your adoption of 3D digital design workflows leveraging the work you’re already doing. Evolve to a data-centric approach, taking advantage of digital twins and Bentley’s infrastructure schemas. Level up your deliverables, differentiate yourself with higher quality designs, and unlock new business opportunities.

Cesium is the foundational open platform for software applications designed to unleash the power of 3D location data. Upload, optimize, and host your 3D geospatial data using one fast, effective pipeline. Build beautiful, interactive 3D applications. Fuse data and stream to any device. Style, filter, query, and measure. Perform analysis that is uniquely 3D. We empower leading companies across industries to understand their 3D data and how it fits into the world. Leverage our tiling pipelines for the shortest lead time between data collection and analysis, while maintaining the fidelity of your source data. Create stunning, highly accurate 3D maps with the smoothest streaming experience available by fusing your data with our curated 3D content for global coverage. Compute distance, area, and volume measurements and perform line of sight, viewshed, and visibility analysis right in your apps.

OpenRoads Designer introduces a new comprehensive modeling environment to provide construction-driven engineering to help accelerate project delivery of road networks, unifying design and construction processes from concept to completion. The application provides complete detailed design capabilities for surveying, drainage, subsurface utilities, and roadway design that that supersedes all capabilities previously delivered through InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil. OpenRoads Designer redefines best practices for generating design and construction deliverables and ensures the exchange of data throughout the project delivery and asset lifecycle. Using OpenRoads Designer, you can assemble context data rapidly from a variety of sources, such as traditional survey, point clouds, 3D reality meshes, terrain data, images, and geospatial information to bring real-world settings to your project.

With ProSteel software you can efficiently create accurate 3D models for structural steel, metal work, and steel assemblies. You can then quickly generate design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever the 3D model changes. Additionally, detailed output to CNC machines automates the steel fabrication process. ProSteel fully supports your construction and planning tasks for structural steel and metal work in a 3D modeling environment. Working with AutoCAD or MicroStation, you get an intuitive and integrated multi-material modeler perfectly suited to layout complex structures, produce shop drawings, assemble all your connections, and manage your bills of materials. Quickly extract 2D drawings that automatically update when the 3D model changes. Easily exchange information with other disciplines thanks to interoperability with other Bentley and third-party applications.

ProStructures is a comprehensive steel and concrete design application used to increase your productivity and profitability. With ProStructures, you can create and automatically update 3D models that include structural steel and reinforced concrete structures. ProSteel is a comprehensive application that allows you to model and detail steel structures for a variety of industries. Develop models and documentation for steel structures efficiently. Confidently deliver an accurate 3D model for steel structures and extract engineering, fabrication, and erection drawings. Leverage automatic updates whenever the 3D model is changed. Produce drawings for every steel shape, connection, and plate work from the 3D model. Generate and update in-drawing, external reports, and bills of material. Create 3D models and design drawings, fabrication details, and schedules that automatically update whenever you change the 3D model.

OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer), Bentley’s multi-discipline building information modeling (BIM). Explore, design, and deliver innovative buildings faster. Design, analyze, document, and visualize buildings of any size, form, and complexity. Effectively communicate design intent and bridge barriers between building disciplines and geographically distributed teams. OpenBuildings Designer (formerly AECOsim Building Designer) provides building information modeling (BIM) advancements so you can deliver buildings faster and with greater confidence – confidence in your design, workflow, capabilities, and deliverables. Increase collaboration among architects, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineers with a shared set of tools and workflows. Integrate information you have from multiple formats and easily work on projects of any size. Clearly communicate your design intent with reliable deliverables that you can easily customize.

Better bridges beginning to end. OpenBridge Designer features advanced interoperability, allowing access to Bentley’s civil application data, as well as a seamless connection to Bentley’s bridge design and analysis applications. Project team members can take the conceptual model from OpenBridge Modeler into the design stage and move through the workflow by performing analysis and design including evaluation of construction work stages using Bentley’s LEAP applications and RM Bridge, OpenRoads Designer, ProStructures, ProjectWise, and other applications. With all these capabilities in one application, you’ll accelerate performance, produce intelligent models through intuitive capabilities for 3D parametric bridge modeling, and improve project deliverables with intelligent data management and automated drawing production that revolutionizes the bridge delivery process. OpenBridge Modeler is a 3D parametric modeling software for bridges.

Use LumenRT to enliven models with life and nature, and produce attention-grabbing real-time visualizations. No matter your technical experience, you can easily use LumenRT to render cinematic quality in real time, animate models, incorporate digital nature, integrate seamlessly within CAD and GIS workflows, and share your creations with other stakeholders and clients. With Bentley LumenRT you no longer have to be a computer graphics expert in order to integrate life-like digital nature into your simulated infrastructure designs, and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. This revolutionary real-time visualization medium is both easy for any professional in the AECO industry to use and able to produce stunningly beautiful and easily understandable visualizations. Bentley users engaged in the capture of existing conditions to provide context for their designs can further benefit from reality modeling “enlivened’ with digital nature.

Geographic imaging professionals need to process vast amounts of geospatial data every day — often relying on software designed for other purposes and add-on applications that create almost as many problems as they solve. Save both time and money, leverage existing data investments, and improve your image analysis capabilities with ERDAS IMAGINE. ERDAS IMAGINE provides true value, consolidating remote sensing, photogrammetry, LiDAR analysis, basic vector analysis, and radar processing into a single product. ERDAS IMAGINE simplifies image classification and segmentation, orthorectification, mosaicking, reprojection, elevation extraction, and image interpretation. Powerful algorithms and data processing functions work behind the scenes so you can concentrate on your analyses. ERDAS IMAGINE offers K-Means, ISODATA, object-based image segmentation, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence algorithms.

Reimagine your space with a digital twin. Benefit from an intuitive software solution where users can create, edit and collaborate on 3D replicas of real-life environments. Freely explore your 3D scanned space with freeview, third person, and vehicles. Extract 3D sections of your space in real-time and reorganize your environment. Make your information actionable with contextual annotations. Import and place 3D and CAD models from various industry standards. Take quick measurements on the go (line, surface, volume) Allow your collaborators to see and understand the project environment from anywhere, at any time. Prevu3D software solution leverages the benefits of 3D scanning technologies by delivering an intuitive yet powerful solution to visualize and manage digital twins, helping engineers, project managers, and decision-makers to better manage manufacturing and production facilities.

Create, maintain, analyze, and share your geospatial, engineering, and business information in a powerful, yet familiar MicroStation environment. Work confidently with engineering-quality GIS to produce quality maps and unify disparate 2D/3D data. Save time and eliminate rework with engineering-accurate object creation, editing, and mapping tools. Use a strong yet flexible application program interface (API) for developing custom GIS applications. Increase productivity and improve decision making by giving field personnel fast access from a tablet with the Bentley Map Mobile app. Because every user has different needs and requirements, Bentley OpenCities Map is offered in various versions. ​Integrate engineering data, survey data, point clouds, and digital imagery to create and update highly accurate 3D city information models and databases. Automatically create 3D reality meshes of cities.

Create 3D models from simple photographs and/or point clouds. Reality modeling is the process of capturing the physical reality of an infrastructure asset, creating a representation of it, and maintaining it through continuous surveys. Bentley's reality modeling software, ContextCapture, provides you with real-world digital context in the form of a 3D reality mesh. A reality mesh is a 3D model of real-world conditions that contains large amounts of triangles and image data. Each digital component can be automatically recognized and/or geospatially referenced, providing you with an intuitive and immersive way to navigate, find, view, and query your asset information. You can use reality meshes in many engineering, maintenance, or GIS workflows to provide precise real-world digital context for design, construction, and operations decisions. Overlapping photos from drones and ground-level imagery, supplemented by laser scans where needed.