• Rande's "Be" Blog: What have you done with CADD Lately

    So what have you done with CADD today?  I’ll bet no one has asked you that question in a while.   Which is a shame because it is a question that we need to ask and answer continually?  CADD (and notice I use the double D’s) is an acronym for Computer…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: What happened to the Be website?

    Just logged in to try and follow the Be Conference this week in Philly and low and behold the Old site has changed.  Thanks for giving all the old users a heads up?  An email would have been nice.  Not sure if the change is good or bad only time will tell…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Are you ready for Roadway Modeler?

    Just a Quick note to anyone in the Raleigh NC area.  The NCLUG next meeting is March 3 2010 we would love for you to attend. Hope to see you....

    Luncheon: Roadway Modeler Date: Wednesday, March 3rd Time: 11:30-2:00

    Are…
  • Rande's "Be" Blog: More Thoughts on Roads & Bridges conference

    Did anyone else other than me and Steve Myer attend this conference? I seem to remember a few other milling around. My point is that it has been five days since my last post and I found only one other post about the conference. Sad really, if this…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Roads & Bridges Conference - First thoughts

    The Bentley Roads and Bridges Conference (RBC) ended yesterday afternoon.  My overall impression was that it was a great conference.  Targeted, focused, informative and useful. (notice I didn't mention the word SALES?)  Bentley kept the delegates feed…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Roads & Bridges starts tommorrow

    Arrived in Charlotte at 6:40 pm.  Took about an hour to get here from the house.  Spent more time finding a parking space (concert tonight at Bobcat arena) than getting here it seems.  Since I was at the Race last night it seems like I've been in Charlotte…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Looking forward to Charlotte

    It has been a busy month for me so far.  Came back from a great HEEP meeting in Texas, taught a GEOPAK for Civil Engineers to some of our GeoTech staff and this morning gave a presentation on civil engineering to a group of high school students.  And…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Be seminars

    How many of the online Be Seminars have you attended? I just finished my third one and while I'm happy with the formats - On-line presentation and a call in Q&A (which works well), the content of the "sessions" have been so-so.

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Busy Month

    It has been over a month since I have posted anything  so I guess I should bring you up to date. So far June has been a pretty busy month. Visited an old high school buddy in New Orleans and attended the HEEP Area II meeting in Baton Rouge, LA where…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Rande's Shameless Plug

    If you are looking for a book for some quiet technical reading about MicroStation XM/V8i (with lots of pictures and arrows) then look no farther than the new, (hopefully to be best seller)  from Karen Coen-Brown and Randall J. Robinson (that's me) -…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Since you can't go to BE why not check out HEEP

    With the cancelation of the BE Conference are you stuck wondering what do.  Where are you going to pick up those elusive Professional Development Hours (PDHs)?  Why not check out a HEEP conference. (note HEEP is one of the biggest group of Bentley users…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Poor Documentation

    Just finished two days of MicroStation V8i admin training. While Bentley says MicroStation V8i is ready for prime time, their documentation and training materials leave a great deal to be desired. After all these years you would think that any software…
  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Happy New Year

    Happy New Year to all.  With the beginning of a new year one has to ask--what will 2009 bring?

    • Will it be the year that all microstation users finally use one version (V8i)?
    • Will Bentley get all its products running the same on a single version…
  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Bentleys Big Event - V8i Webcast

    Well did anyone catch the big webcast from 1:30 - 3:30pm today?  If you didn't then you saved 2 good hours.  When will Bentley learn that it's customers get tired of a sales pitch everytime they do ANYTHING.  I tuned in today hoping to see and hear about…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: 2008 IHEEP

    Just a quick note to remind everyone that the 2008 IHEEP meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico is less than FOUR WEEKS away (September 14-18).   If you haven't gotten around to making your plans to attend you still have time to get your plane tickets and…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: FLDOT Design Conference

     

    I had the privilege last week of giving a presentation at the Florida DOT Design conference held in Orlando, Florida July 28-30. Over 1100 engineers and design professionals from the FLDOT (and 1 from NC - me) and the consulting community attended…
  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Some construction Pictures from Romania

    Recently got the visit the largest current road project in Europe this past may.  While I shot a bunch of pictures, I thought I would share a few interesting ones.  The first one is of something I had never seen on a construction site before.  Beer Taps…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Press releases but...

    Well I'm receiving a flood of Bentley press releases about things announced at the Be conference but very little out side information on the conference. Kudos to the handful of people in the Be community to who have posted their thoughts. I've always…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: To Be or Not to Be

    Apparently the Annual Bentley Be conference is underway in Baltimore. How do I know this, my bosses are there. If I was left to find out these things in the CAD Press I might miss it. Going through my email this morning read through my TenLinks Daily…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: HEEP of Information in Atlanta

    Everyone there is still time to plan on attending the Highway Engineers Exchange Program Area II meeting in Atlanta, GA.  June 8- 11 ,2008.   One of the highlights of this years conference will be the recently announced Tuesday afternoon technical tour…

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Merry Christmas

    Just a quick note to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. With the hope that in the coming year the "be community" will "be"come the defacto gathering place for all the users of Bentley's many products and even those that don't.…
  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Where are the Athens Blogs?

    I just received a notice via email that a beta of "Athens" was made available to select subscribers today. I wandered over here to see what is being said about it. Other than a small blurb on the home page of this website I don't see any Bentley …

  • Rande's "Be" Blog: Interesting Site

    Just last night I posted a note to my main blog (http://rjrcubed.blogspot.com) about a lack of bentley blogs and low and behold I recieved a comment pointing me to "the be comunity" .  I have been part of the Intergraph / bentley world for…