Old version of Bentley View were compatible with a wide scope of file format:
DWG 2022 and all previous formats
DXF files of all versions
Dot Clouds
Bentley Models of Civil Engineering Land
JT format
Rhino V5
Viewing IFC files
Reality meshes
when it is really reduced now. Please make those extension come back.
More info there: https://www.becad.net/en/index.php/bentley-view/
Where they speak about: "You can view more than 50 file formats: from CAD file to raster images."
It was one of the most extended free viewer of the market and now, we must mix many editors software to match this goal.
It was a way to proote the Bentley capabilities when know, this is one more Bentley product that will disappear from our software internal catalog as it has no enought interest.