The ability to incorporate Bentley Map’s mapping & GIS functionality with the Bentley Civil Engineering software products was introduced early in the V8i (SELECTseries) of MicroStation software. The Bentley civil products that include Bentley Map are:
- InRoads
- InRoads Suite
- Rail Track
- Rail Track Suite
- Power InRoads
- Power Civil for [Country] (not including Power Civil for North America)
- Power Rail Track
- MXROAD
- GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite
- Power GEOPAK
No additional license is required to use the Bentley Map product when it is installed by a Civil Engineering software product. The Civil applications install Bentley Map during the Setup phase, and set an environment variable that tells the civil product to activate all of Bentley Map’s capabilities and tools. If you have a separate license of Bentley Map, you can install it separately from the civil products, but you must ensure that the installation folder and MicroStation product are unique – otherwise the Windows Registry may have conflicts with the two versions of Map. This is not recommended, and it is best to simply rely on the bundled version of Map that the civil product installs.
Bentley Map is not activated automatically once a civil workspace is opened – you won’t see any Map menus until you activate it. To manually ‘Activate Map’, use the menu item supplied by the civil product. The location of the Activate Map menu item varies, depending on which civil product you have installed. The following screenshots illustrate which menu the Activate Map item is located in, for each civil product:
For InRoads, InRoads Suite, Rail Track, Rail Track Suite, & MXROAD, the Activate Map item is located in the Applications menu
For GEOPAK, Power GEOPAK and other GEOPAK applications, the Activate Map item is located in the GEOPAK menu
For Power InRoads and PowerCivil for ‘Country’ the Activate Map item is located in the Tools menu
