CADconform for MicroStation Readme

What's new in CADconform?

For the latest enhancements to the product in each revision of CADconform, see the Feature Request report. Fixes to known problems can also be found in the Bug Fix Report.

Brief highlights are listed below:

New in version 8.0

New V8 licence file format, see here more more info.
Support for feature types: 3D Solid, Hatch, Note/Leader
Platform support for Bentley Navigator, AECOsim and e-promis.
Symbology icons in the Report Viewer
Modified rows can now be highlighted or removed from the report.
Fully customisable reporting columns
Checking of hatch type, angle, cell and spacing.
Faster watermarking and watermark integrity checking.
Ability to merge selected features in the feature table editor.
Ability to choose the drafting command for every feature type from a drop-down list.
Added tab pages to the Conform window to flip between preview images, text description or both.
Support for DTM (type 106) elements used in OpenRoads.
The Batch Processor can now keep track of the active model via a toggle command.
Added ability to check and correct cells on 'is annotation cell' status.
Unicode support for design files with Asian language strings (levels, style names, etc)
Conform allows a "current scale" to be set, which allows quick selection of the active multi-scale setting.
Improved string filtering in Conform, including the ability to match on level name.
Option to check/fix on text scale proportionality independently of text size.
Option to check on maximum element size (useful in 3D models with compound cells).
The pooled licence 'alive' timer now operates in a separate thread to MicroStation, eliminating potential pauses due to network congestion.
Reports can now be sorted by the last two selected columns, and numeric columns are no longer sorted alphabetically.
Option to allow features only if they are found in a certain model (e.g. the title block reference model).
Support for negative text size.
Added a command to view a customisable log of configuration variables from the 'Tech Support' window.

New options for defining cross-hatching

View Report

A custom Feature Summary report showing the symbology icons and two rows with modified elements in red.

The new 'Technical Support' window

New in version 7.1

Drafting from the list-box can now optionally be operated in single-click or double-click mode.
Tag value checking and correcting, with full Perl / Unix Regular Expressions support.
Dockable and pinnable Drafting windows in MicroStation XM and V8i.
A new multi-preview resizeable Cell Selector with local cell image caching and customisations stored uniquely per cell library.
Platform support for Bentley PowerCivil, PowerMap, PowerSurvey, PowerInroads and PowerGeopak, as well as AECOsim and any other MicroStation / PowerDraft-based platform.


Four Drafting Menus docked and pinned to the left panel of MicroStation's main window. Each menu pops out automatically when the mouse moves over the tab page.	The new CADconform Cell Selector showing a cell library in multi-cell preview mode

Older Additions in v7.1

True colour icon in MicroStation XM and V8i.
Conform, Drop and Delete commands can now be performed from the Error Summary, Feature Summary or Individual Error reports in the Report Viewer.
A feature name filter has been added to the Feature Table Editor, to allow fast feature finding.
Terminator symbols can now be defined, checked and drafted. This is useful for cleaning up AutoCAD originating dimensions.
Feature keyin lengths have been increased from a maximum of 1024 characters, to approximatedly 8000 characters (depending on database vendor).
Conform now has much more granular feature match scoring. The new system compares and scores on closeness of values (colour matching, string similarity, integer and floating point proximity, etc)*. The result is a much better estimation of the best match in the Conform dialog.
CSV Export now support optional export of ranged values and hidden features.
Cell library details are now cached locally. This improves conformance speed considerably, especially when cell libraries are located on a network drive.
Conform now has a preview window showing the current element before and after the change has been applied. This preview can be in the main Conform window or a separate popup window.
The global file checking options (model/file name, colour table, signature/title block cell and border sheet options) are now integrated into the Conform window.

* This means for example, that a level named "REBAR" will be a closer match to "EXISTING_REBAR" than "CONCRETE" and will thus increase the match score. Similarly two shades of grey will have a higher match score for colour than a grey and green element.