MicroStation 2025 (25.00.00.119)

The MicroStation product team is proud to announce the availability of MicroStation 2025 (release date: July 31, 2025). This release includes significant improvements across three key areas: AI Automation, Geospatial Context, and Performance & Enhancements.

MicroStation 2025 equips infrastructure professionals with powerful, intelligent, and automated workflows to solve complex design challenges faster and with more confidence. This release continues the transformation of 2D and 3D modeling and design processes, offering superior automation, geospatial context, and performance enhancements. These improvements will save you time, reduce errors, and help you to deliver better projects.


AI Automation

With the introduction of AI-powered automation, MicroStation 2025 transforms how users approach design challenges by integrating the intuitive Python Assistant. This feature empowers both novice and experienced users to rapidly develop and implement Python scripts through natural language prompts, eliminating barriers to automation and fostering greater efficiency. By acting as a knowledgeable mentor and assistant, the Python Assistant accelerates workflow automation, reduces reliance on expert programming skills, and ultimately enables users to deliver higher-quality projects with greater confidence and speed.

"Important note: Python Assistant is an AI feature; by enabling this feature during installation of MicroStation 2025, you agree that the use of this feature shall be governed by the AI Product-Specific Terms and Bentley AI User Guidelines. You have the option to disable the Python Assistant as part of the installation process."

Geospatial Context

Unlock a new dimension of design insight with MicroStation 2025’s advanced geospatial context capabilities. Effortlessly integrate rich 2D and 3D geospatial data—including Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Google Maps—directly into your workflows for heightened real-world accuracy and awareness. Enhanced interoperability with Esri solutions and intuitive Python scripting empower you to automate, visualize, and collaborate on complex infrastructure projects with greater clarity, speed, and confidence. Click here to learn more about the Geospatial Context Enhancements.

- Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles Support (Tech Preview): Natively incorporate geospatial data for design context and big-picture awareness. This provides a powerful 3D geospatial experience for the built and natural environment, enabling integration of massive 3D geospatial context data from various sources. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles will be available as a Tech Preview.
- Google Maps Integration: MicroStation 2025 now supports high-quality Google 2D Maps, replacing outdated Bing Maps. This brings superior image quality, accuracy, and more recent data for instant real-world site context. Bing Maps for Enterprise will be deprecated, with services ending June 30, 2028; MicroStation 2025 onwards will use Google Maps only.
- Geospatial Context in Python API: Write Python scripts to automate tasks and work with geospatial context within MicroStation, saving time, reducing errors, and improving design visualization.
- Esri File Geodatabase Support: Efficiently import and export Esri File Geodatabases, including options for reprojection, multi-file operations, and ProjectWise integration. This improves interoperability between your design environment and GIS.
- Esri ArcGIS Feature Services – Cell Fixed Size: Point features from ArcGIS Feature Services now benefit from Cell Fixed Size in Element Templates. This ensures cells retain a consistent on-screen size regardless of zoom level, improving clarity and user experience.
- OGC 3D Tiles Support: Accessing 3DTiles format stored in the Reality Management portal is now possible via Reality Mesh Attachments, enabling seamless integration of rich, multi-resolution 3D geospatial data for enhanced design context and visualization.
- OGC API Feature Service (Tech Preview): Access OGC API Feature Services directly from the Geospatial context workflow. This modern, standards-based integration streamlines connectivity to dynamic geospatial data sources, improving interoperability and real-time data access.

Point Cloud Enhancements

Experience transformative efficiency and precision in your infrastructure projects with MicroStation 2025’s advanced point cloud capabilities. Seamlessly integrate and visualize massive, geospatially accurate 3D datasets through direct 3D Tile Point Cloud attachment, while optimized rendering boosts productivity by delivering smoother, faster interactions. These enhancements empower users to handle complex real-world data with ease, unlocking new levels of clarity and performance in design and analysis.

- 3D Tile Point Cloud (Tech Preview): Attach 3D Tiles (JSON) point cloud datasets directly through the Attach Point Cloud from Reality Management interface. This new capability enables seamless integration of rich, geospatial 3D data into your projects.
- Point Cloud Optimization: Rendering efficiency has been significantly enhanced through point cloud optimization. Users will experience faster zooming, panning, and overall interaction with point cloud data. These improvements apply to both Web Ready Point Clouds (OPC) and 3D Tiles Point Clouds (JSON).

Performance & Other Enhancements

Experience substantial productivity gains and greater interoperability for users. Key improvements—such as dramatically faster processing of conditional expressions, adoption of modern C++20 features, and support for the latest RealDWG 2026—mean users will experience significantly reduced wait times, seamless integration with industry-standard formats, and compatibility with cutting-edge technologies. These advancements ensure that MicroStation 2025 remains a powerful, future-ready platform, capable of supporting complex workflows and diverse project requirements with enhanced efficiency and reliability.

- IFC Export: IFC export in MicroStation enables open, standardized data sharing across industry technologies. By using Item Types to embed custom properties on objects, both geometry and metadata are preserved in the IFC file. This allows MicroStation to play a key role in projects that rely on a variety of model types. It supports regulatory compliance, improves coordination, and ensures long-term data accessibility.
- Conditional Expressions Performance: A new evaluation process for Conditional Expressions significantly improves performance for designs containing conditional "IIF" statements, leading to increased productivity. Processing time can be reduced from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.
- C++20: MicroStation 2025 will utilize C++20, allowing users to benefit from major C++20 features. Partners and developers with C++ applications will need to recompile their source code. Click here for more information.
- RealDWG 2026: MicroStation 2025 supports the latest version of Autodesk's software development kit (SDK) that provides reliable and accurate DWG/DXF access. It allows developers to read and write DWG files created with AutoCAD software, ensuring compatibility with the most current version of AutoCAD.
- New Example Dataset: MicroStation 2025 includes a new example dataset that showcases the new features developed in MicroStation in a realistic design setting. For example, the River Bridge data set is Geospatially located providing context with Google’s Map Integration.

Additional Technology Preview Features

- Mesh Extreme Decimation tool (Tech Preview) – Enables the creation of a new smoother mesh element from an existing mesh element.
- Parametric Modeling
. Equal Angle Constraint (Tech Preview): Keeps angles equal between segments—great for parametric designs.
. Create an Associative Array (Tech Preview): Creates an association between the parent and the child elements in the Array when the Associative box is checked


MicroStation is the only computer-aided design (CAD) software purpose-built for infrastructure design, helping architects and engineers like you bring their vision to life, present their designs to their clients, and deliver their projects to the community. MicroStation’s advanced parametric 3D modeling capabilities allow infrastructure professionals of any discipline to deliver data-driven, BIM-ready models. MicroStation and all Bentley BIM applications are built on the same comprehensive modeling platform. You therefore can easily progress your MicroStation work into discipline specific workflows with Bentley’s design and analytical modeling BIM applications. With this flexibility, each member of your project team has exactly the right application for the work they need to do.

What's New in MicroStation 2025


From Python Assistant to Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles, here is everything new in MicroStation 2025.
Bentley Systems Inc. is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive architecture and engineering software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has nearly 3,000 colleagues in more than 45 countries, $500 million in annual revenues, and, since 2001, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Owner: Bentley Systems Inc.
Product Name: MicroStation
Version: 2025 (25.00.00.119)
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.bentley.com
Languages Supported: english
System Requirements: Windows *
Size: 6.4 Gb