andy, now im ready to try it

i installed ms mx, seems the latest version of microstation....
i considered the city file big, but it is handled so easily with ms...opens really quick, but ms always had that abili ty....
exporting the city file? to something i can read ? i dont think so....not too many options, i even tried sketchup...but, bentley is known to have addons and files that you need to download, etc..which i didnt do....so far, i didnt like it at all.
then, exporting using IFC....not with this latest version...!!! that IFC addon only come with bentley architecture, which is another module that requires another prerequisite package to be installed and a diffrent msmx version that need to be installed before you installed a 3rd package, the architecture package or module.
i installed everything but the architecture module wouldnt install cuz of wrong version something....a pain, i though retrieving the goodies for ac10 from their web site was a pain..after this experience...no problem.
i asked help from experts and that didnt help either.....i placed a call to bentley 3d expert (never returned my call) if you ask my very personal opinion, not a tool for me...and sorry i couldnt show you incorrect cuz i was born using ms

AFAIK, Bentley has only IFC support within Bentley Architecture (which requires the Triforma module too). I don't think IFC support has any meaning in plain MicroStation, which is a generic CAD program and not a building modeler...

I don't have this Architecture version here, only the (latest) MicroStation, Triforma and Structural editions.

Anyone correct me if I'm wrong 😉

AFAIK, Bentley has only IFC support within Bentley Architecture (which requires the Triforma module too). I don't think IFC support has any meaning in plain MicroStation, which is a generic CAD program and not a building modeler...

I don't have this Architecture version here, only the (latest) MicroStation, Triforma and Structural editions.

Anyone correct me if I'm wrong

i dont know about 'not a building modeler' , maybe plain ms has no 'specific building tools' (walls , windows, etc) but has excellent modeling tools...you can model from a boat to a spheric building if u wish.

Rakela wrote:

myself wrote:
AFAIK, Bentley has only IFC support within Bentley Architecture (which requires the Triforma module too). I don't think IFC support has any meaning in plain MicroStation, which is a generic CAD program and not a building modeler...

i dont know about 'not a building modeler' , maybe plain ms has no 'specific building tools' (walls , windows, etc) but has excellent modeling tools...you can model from a boat to a spheric building if u wish.

I mean that Bentley Architecture has specific architectural objects as opposed to geometrical objects. Think of the comparison between AutoCAD versus Architectural Desktop. Or AutoCAD versus ArchiCAD 😉

IFC support makes no sense when the software has no way of defining building objects (walls, windows etc...) as such.

im with you !!