Will MicroStation V8 XM support Windows Vista?
Most new computers will have it pre-installed in a half-year. A: Customers will need a new version of XM, which Bentley hopes to deliver within 90 days of Vista shipping. Q: Weren’t generative components supposed to be included with XM? A: There is some code under the hood that supports generative components. They are currently in beta, and will become available by the end of September. Q: What is missing from PowerDraft “XM”? A: Mesh modeling is missing; StartPoint is included. About 80-90% of XM’s new features are in Bentley’s pretty-much free CAD package. Q: Explain Project Explorer some more. A: It provides access to link sets. Links are stored centrally, and can be shortcuts to files. Export drawings as PDFs, and the links are retained. It reads DGN, DWG, PDF, and Excel docs, extracting “items of interest” for users’ access, such as views, xrefs, and models. Curiously, it doesn’t extract symbols, layers, hatch patterns, and the like. Q: When will XM support DWG 2007? A: That depen
