While the industry has moved on to the CONNECT Edition, XM holds a special place for those of us who learned CAD on "iconic" interfaces.
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: Bentley began offering this extension for free to SELECT subscribers with the XM release, enabling complex, rule-based design automation. System Requirements and Installation bentley microstation xm
Bentley’s intelligent drafting compass, AccuDraw, received major upgrades in XM, including better contextual snap points and a more intuitive interface for entering polar or Cartesian coordinates. This dramatically improved 2D and 3D drafting speed. While the industry has moved on to the
The XM generation (which included not just MicroStation but also companion products like Bentley Structural, Bentley Architecture, and Bentley GeoWeb Publisher) was released during a crucial industry shift. The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) world was beginning to move from pure CAD drafting toward Building Information Modeling (BIM). XM laid the groundwork for the subsequent platform (where "i" stands for "intuitive"), which would fully embrace parametric modeling and data-rich workflows. This dramatically improved 2D and 3D drafting speed
: Natively supports the DGN (design) format, which is the industry standard for Bentley and Intergraph CAD environments.
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