Microstation (Bentley) in Rhino?

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Revit in Rhino, Archicad in Rhino… What about also Microstation (Bentley) in Rhino?
Many years ago Bentley opened up for Autocad (Now = Revit) roundtrip conversion. So, given all the engineers and still architects like me, who appreciate the precise design tools of Microstation AND the creativity of Rhino including all the add-ons, why not? Hoping that Bentley developers read this…
Greetings,
Ingemar

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I think you have it backwards. It’s Rhino in Revit etc…

So it would be Rhino in Microstation.

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OK, thanks for correction. But the idea is the same, right?

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What would be the benefit to having Rhino in Microstation? Having it in parametric BIM software is reasonable because they have limited and clunky modelling tools and don’t really have similar features to Rhino at all. If I want Microstation in my Rhino, I can just open a .dgn file in Rhino, and I think vice versa.

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Fine. Have you tried that, a Rhino file back to Microstation? Would be very interesting to know.
Given all the extra features in Rhino? I didn’t manage that… Maybe I have to strip some layers where the more complicated stuff resides? Grateful for tips.
Ingemar

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No, I don’t use Microstation in my firm. I only ever deal with it when it’s the native file format at a firm that we’re working with. If you’re having issues with file conversions you’ll have to take it up with Bentley or McNeel. As far as I know Microstation is capable of opening .3dm files.

I know Microstation is the kind of software that uses 1 file format when 12 would suffice, so doing a round trip from Microstation to Rhino and back would probably strip away a bunch of embedded info that Rhino has absolutely no use for. But if you wanted to import some geometry from Microstation, model some extra geometry in Rhino and then export the new geometry to import into Microstation that should probably work.

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Hi again,
Well, I was just curious having read about “Rhino in Revit in, Rhino in Archicad etc” So why not also Rhino in Microstation ? Revit etc would have the same info loss at a round-trip conversion as you describe?
Anyway, thanks for your input, Ingemar

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Hi @ingemar
Japhy posted last year a basic example of Rhino inside Microstation:

Which specific functionalities would you gain with using such connection?

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Thank you Djordje,
Extremely interesting! Surprised I didn’t follow up this post last year.
For sure I will now,
Ingemar

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Hi @ingemar ,
I am interested to know, which kind of functionalities are you looking to gain, by having such Rhino Inside Microstation connection?
Can you provide some examples?

Thank you.