MicroStation

MicroStation

24 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MicroStation	Score6 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Bentley Systems offers the MicroStation application and product family as a 3D and 2D modeling and computer-aided design (CAD) solution for engineers and designers.	$250 Per User Per Month

Pricing

MicroStation

Microstation: $250.00
Per User Per Month

Pricing Offerings
MicroStation
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	MicroStation
Considered Both Products	Bentley Systems Verified User Chose MicroStation Microstation is not intuitive. It is almost impossible for our newest employees to use effectively, and I strongly prefer to start them with Civil 3D, where possible. With MicroStation, you really need to be an intermediate to advanced user to use the program and know where the … Incentivized Helpful? Huma Ali Center Head at iNIFD (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose MicroStation MicroStation is best suited for large infrastructure projects, example: road design projects. Designing 2D and 3D can be done in other software too, but the context of real-life examples is an added advantage of MicroStation. Incentivized Helpful? Jackline Julias Proyecto Coordindor in Engineering at JOYCO (Civil Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose MicroStation MicroStation offers great capabilities which enable quick Engineering design and document generation, the view comparison functions is the best among the above tools and the easy of customizing the features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MicroStation It seems to be getting good investment with features, and information exchange is working between us and others still. Incentivized Helpful? Randall (Rande) Robinson Information Technology Specialist in Information Technology at North Carolina Dept. Information Technology - Transportation (Civil Engineering, 10,001+ employees) Chose MicroStation The only general purpose CAD program that you can compare MicroStation with would be AutoCAD. MicroStation, in my opinion, is a superior product in every way but one. That one issue is that there are just more people who have and know how to use AutoCAD than there are ones … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MicroStation I prefer MicroStation personally. It is much less taxing on your computer's RAM. However, they all have their pros and cons. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MicroStation I grew up working on AutoCAD and most recently was training on Microstation. To be honest I like MicroStation but Autodesk has a little bit more refined product. But we utilize MicroStation as mush as possible when needed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose MicroStation In my opinion, I would recommend AutoCAD Civil 3D over Microstation V8i unless you/your company benefit from using MicroStation due to your contracts requiring you to submit a digital design in MicroStation file type (.dgn). Otherwise, I feel that AutoCAD Civil 3D is actually a … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	MicroStation
Likelihood to Recommend	7.2 (8 ratings)
Usability	2.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)