MicroStation Advanced Training

Set it up once, and let every sheet follow.

Go beyond drafting. Attach real data to your elements, build geometry that updates when a value changes, and control how every drawing looks and prints with display rules. Then pull reports from your files and automate the repetitive work.

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MicroStation · Data & Drawing Production

MicroStation Advanced

Learning objectives

What you'll be able to do after MicroStation Advanced

You'll stop fixing drawings one by one. You'll learn how the settings behind your files work together, so one change updates the whole set and every sheet prints the way it should.

✓Attach item types so your elements carry real data such as material, grade and weight.

✓Use variables and parametric tools to build geometry you update by editing a single value.

✓Set up named boundaries to define the areas your drawings are made from.

✓Control how elements look and print with display styles and display rules, across every drawing.

✓Work out why a display rule isn't showing on screen or on the printed sheet, and fix it.

✓Pull element data into reports, ready to use in schedules.

✓Customize MicroStation around the way your team works.

✓Use automation basics to apply the same task across every drawing in a set at once.

Who it's for

Built for people who produce and manage drawing sets

Core audience

CAD Technicians & Drafters

You already work in MicroStation every day and turn models into finished sheets. Learn the tools that make a large drawing set faster to produce and easier to keep consistent.

Working in 3D

3D Modelers

OpenBuildings Designer is built on MicroStation, so every tool in this course works there too. Learn how your model's data and display settings carry through to the drawings.

Setting the standards

BIM Managers, CAD Administrators & Team Leads

You set up the display rules, data and standards the rest of the team works from. Learn to build them so they apply the same way on every drawing, for every user.

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Syllabus

8 modules, from smart element data to automated drawing sets

Item Types

Giving elements real information, such as material, grade and weight.

What item types are
Attaching item types to elements
Element properties & attributes, such as material, grade and weight
Using item type data in display rules and reports

Variables

Storing the values your geometry depends on in one place.

What variables are
Creating and editing variables
Driving geometry from variables

Parametric Tools

Building geometry that updates when a value changes.

Parametric tools
Parametric solids
Editing parametric geometry without recreating it

Named Boundaries

Defining the areas of the model your drawings are made from.

What named boundaries are
Creating named boundaries
Creating drawings from named boundaries

Display Styles & Display Rules

Controlling how elements look on screen and in print, automatically and consistently.

Display styles: render mode, edge display & display rules in one reusable style
Switching drawing presentations by applying a display style
Display rules: graphics driven by element properties
Display rules vs. manual overrides
Rule sets for different drawing types, such as showing one discipline in color and the rest in gray
Project-wide graphic standards set by the BIM or CAD administrator
Applying display rules across a full drawing set
Why display rule colors don't appear on the printed sheet, and how to fix it

Reports

Getting the data out of your files and onto the drawings.

Reports
Schedules
Data extraction

Customization

Setting MicroStation up around the way your team works.

Workspace & WorkSet configuration variables
Custom ribbon tabs, tools & tasks
Function keys
Working within your project's workspace and standards

Automation Basics

Taking the repetition out of drawing production.

Key-ins
Recorded macros
Batch Process: running a task across many files
Applying the same settings to many drawings at once

About BIM Global

Taught by an industry expert with 12+ years in Bentley tools

BIM Global is a Bentley-focused firm offering training, support, consulting, and modeling services for OpenBuildings Designer, MicroStation, and ProjectWise, for teams delivering large infrastructure projects.

Our training is led by an industry expert who has trained multiple teams and uses these exact tools on live projects every day. Most experienced users already know how to navigate the software. What makes the difference is knowing why people get stuck, spotting the mistakes teams keep repeating, and delivering training in a way that makes skills actually stick.

Our approach is deeply interactive. We connect new skills to the tools and workflows you already know, continuously check for understanding, and stay on a topic until it’s truly mastered, not just demonstrated.