• AutoPLANT on a 64 bit OS ... updated

    Disclaimer 2 ...
    The 64 bit blogs are posted for information and not an official endorsement by Bentley. I use a 64 bit OS as I was tired of the crashes in XP and have gradually migrated to Windows 7.  This blog is for information to assist you in your business decision on which platform to deploy on.  Bentley do NOT support AutoPLANT on a 64 bit platform and as such any issues you have MUST be validated on a supported…
  • iRing Installation ... and other dilemmas ...

    iRing ... what has that to do with Plant Design or Solutions ... well I am not sure, but like every other piece of technology I am not sure of, I tend to embrace it rather than ignore it.  I prefer to make my decisions after tearing something apart rather than from a distance, so I thought a quick install would be a start to understanding what iRing is doing ...
    Step 1 : Download the iRing tools ...
    Download the iRing…
  • AutoPLANT on a 64 bit OS

    Installing AutoPLANT on a 64 bit OS


    Disclaimers :
    This blog is due to many requests. Although it is not officially supported, perhaps it is better we suggest how to make it work and then monitor feedback. With that said, AutoPLANT is supported and therefore if something does not work on 64 bit, you need to run the same feature on a 32 bit installation to see if the issue is a 64 bit problem or a 32 bit problem.  If the…

  • SelectSeries ...

    As a Solutions Engineer I am always working on the edge of what is possible with Bentley technologies and feel quite privileged to work the latest technologies from Bentley. The recent release of ProjectWise Navigator, while we have worked on this for over a year and I have worked with several features, meant I recently had to plug this into my working system, which always includes ProjectWise and see how this could…

  • HP Workstations

    HP Demo Machines : Blog 3

    Started the base testing of the machines, and while WS#1 is still a noisy beast at least it can brag about its performance. Again I open myself to comment on the tests I selected. I selected the FutureMark tests PCMark05 and the 3DMark05 for testing as these tests are freely available and also there are significant results about to compare your machine to the workstations. As a baseline I…