• You may not be satisfied with recent licence and pricing changesAutoDesk ?
  AutoDesknow only offers rental. Bentley Systems has been offering this mode of use for more than 20 years but in addition to perpetual licenses. Various rental modes are also available allowing even to pay only what you consume monthly. Flexibility and comfort that will make you earn money!
  In addition, for customers in perpetual licence maintenance,AutoDeskprovides for a gradual increase in such maintenance to meet rental costs. So you'll have to basically rent the previously acquired licenses!
• Maybe you have enough of regular file format changes?
  Bentley Systemsoffers a single file format, theDGN. This is of great stability and has evolved only once since the release of the first version ofMicroStation. It was in 2001!

• Perhaps you have the impression that you have not seen any improvements that will increase your productivity?
  Bentley Systemsmakes very regular updates of these platform applications includingMicroStation. On average 4-5 updates are available annually. To each of these updates correspond real evolutions.

• Your new projects require working with new data types or various file formats?
  MicroStation, as well as all applications based on this platform, have the ability to read, write or convert from or to many file formats. FormatsAutoDesk DWGandDXFare supported natively in reading and writing.

• Perhaps you are looking to collaborate more effectively with other users of theBIM ?
  FormatIFCis one of the great standards for operating projects using processesBIM. MicroStation allows you to read this type of file until version 4.x. However, a business application such as this will be required.OpenBuilding Designerto write. Indeed, in this case it is imperative to define the attribution structures, associate them with the graphic entities and complete them in order to respect the information cycle.

If any of these points seem familiar to you,
Read on to see why he might
be time to consider a change.

How to migrate fromAutoDesk to Bentley Systems?

DTechnical perspective, it's extremely simple since our products are fully compatible with technologyDWG(including LIN, SHX,...) Also, all the concepts you know also exist. User interfaces are also quite similar and in general a user easily passes fromAutoCADtoMicroStation, for example, in just a small day of training.

Dadministrative perspectiveand TradeBentley Systemsoffers a structural offer allowing you to value your perpetual product licensesAutoDeskto acquire productsBentley Systems. In this case,discounts can reach 50% of the value of the products.

To learn more, fill out the form on the right of this screen and describe your wish. We will then contact you again to discuss and evaluate with you the various modalities.