Microstation vs Solidworks.

I am familiar with solidworks. Anyone work on Microstation, how is
that different from solidworks (pros and cons) Thanks.

lbbss

 

I have worked on Microstation. It's strength is in Civil Engineering design
of buildings. It's interface is difficult, and after 2 year of working on
it, I wasn't able to do much. But, like I said, it is a Civil Engineering
package. It was able to handle a very complicated model of building quite
easily. The designers that I knew said that if you like to click your mouse
button a lot to do simple tasks, it was acceptable, but its interface is
very difficult to use. It is more of a 3-D cad, not solid modeling program.

Solidworks is a much better all around. I don't know how it handles CE
projects, but it handles mechanical projects.

 

I'm not terribly familiar with Microstation, but you're not getting any
other info from other folks. Microstation is primarily known as an
architectural / civil eng / piping & instrumentation package.
Microstation itself is primarily a 2D product, competing with Autocad
and formerly Cadkey. They had/have a parametric modeler called, uh,
"Modeler" which was pretty weak as I remember. I used to work for a
company that sold it a while back. No idea if this is still available.
It may have been arguable that Microstation drawings were better than
SW's. I've heard of people using it for product design, but they were
comparatively few. It was owned by Intergraph and then Bentley Systems,
http://www.bentley.com/en-us/

 

It has been some time since I used MS, but as I recall, it did a nice
job with importing. Especially Catia files. Beyond that the other
posts are pretty much right on the money.