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Positive impact of MicroStation V8 on
corporate-wide productivity
CLEARWATER, FL, USA — Is it possible that the
decision not to upgrade to MicroStation V8 could have an adverse
effect on the way you do business? Are there enough productivity
improvements to convince your firm to move to V8 or to confirm
that you made the right decision to migrate from V7? Most
of us have wrestled with these insecurities. Some remain in
the struggle.
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| Adopting MicroStation V8 at your
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When discussing productivity in the work place, a distinction
must be made between personal and corporate levels. At a personal
level, features that automate repetitive tasks or functions
that reduce procedural steps all improve individual productivity.
However, we shouldn’t assume that personal productivity
improvements automatically have a positive impact on corporate
productivity. Until now, incremental enhancements to MicroStation
meant we only had better design tools. That is, until
the release of V8.
Tools for mixing MicroStation and
AutoCAD files
V8 extends the interoperability between DWG and DGN formats,
allowing the files to be accessed and shared without translations.
DWG files, from Release 11 to 2004, may be attached as references
or opened natively as a design. While opened in V8, the DWG
mode is activated to secure the integrity of the file, disabling
any feature or function incompatible with AutoCAD. Changes
made in AutoCAD to the original DWG file are automatically
displayed in V8 when opened or attached as a reference.
How does this impact your corporate productivity? It insures
that your firm’s intellectual capital is not locked to
a single file format. V8 allows firms to work seamlessly with
AutoCAD vendors, suppliers and consultants that may not be
familiar with MicroStation.
Operational Features
Among the most notable MicroStation enhancements, Design History
leads the list of improvements geared towards increasing the
productivity of designers, especially when having to undo
work and when going back to previous revisions of a drawing.
Once activated, Design History records all the activities
performed inside a design. These modifications are stored,
named, time stamped and assigned to a specific user. Design
History may be used to roll back projects to previous revisions,
or to move forward to other proposed revisions, to permanently
revert to a different revision of a project or to make temporary
changes for tasks, such as, producing plots.
How can this impact your corporate productivity? For the
first time, you can roll back to different stages of any project
at any time. V8 allows you to visually confirm which stage
of history to restore. With V7, you either searched for existing
project files or restored backup files. Either process required
additional time to confirm the correct files were restored.
These are just some of the many enhancements, that once your
firm adopts them, you could significantly streamline your
design workflow.
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