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AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), Update1 (v08.11.09.863), Commercial Release

We are pleased to announce that the commercial release of AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), Update 1 (v08.11.09.863) is now available on the Software Fulfillment Center. This maintenance release  includes important updates and fixes to enhance user experience, as well as improves interoperability, personal productivity, and information sharing by leveraging Bentley CONNECT services. .

AECOsim Building Designer is available from the Software Fulfillment Center as a combined installation according to users' regional options (software language + regional dataset). Regional datasets will also be available as standalone downloads. The following versions are available for immediate download:

  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – ANZ)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – DK)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – GB)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – NM)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – SG)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – SE)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – UK)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – US)
  •  AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6, Update 1 (English – USM)

Subsequent International versions of AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), Update 1,  such as Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), French, German, Italian, & Spanish are targeted to release within 30 days of this announcement. Likewise, the Polish, & Russian versions are targeted to release within the next 90 days.

Since this is a maintenance release, this update will upgrade any previously installed versions of AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6.  The schema and dataset changes between AECOsim Building Designer V8i SELECTseries 6 and the SELECTseries 6, Update 1 datasets are minimal and are primarily to accommodate the new features contained with Update 1. This should allow users to quickly and easily migrate their projects and custom datasets from SELECTseries 6 and the SELECTseries 6, Update 1 . The dataset changes are documented in a dataset “delta” document delivered with each regional dataset.

What's New

Some of the significant new enhancements and capabilities available in AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECTseries 6), Update 1 are described below. More information on all of the new features can be found in the product documentation. 

  • Support for Windows® 10 and Windows Server® 2012 R2
  • CONNECT Services - Azure cloud services to connect all users (CONNECTED Users) across projects (CONNECTED Projects) throughout your enterprises (CONNECT Enterprises).
  • Direct integration with Bentley ContextCapture (Acute3D) reality modeling meshes. ContextCapture (.3mx) files can either be opened directly or referenced.
  • RealDWG 2016 - You can now open and save RealDWG 2016 files in AECOsim Building Designer . You can also open AutoCAD 2016 object enablers.
  • RFA 2016 - The AECOsim Building Designer RFA interpreter now supports RFA 2016.
  • Microsoft Bing Map feature enabled in Raster Manger
  • IFC CV2 Certification - Building Services (MEP)
  • IFC4 Open/Reference (Technology Preview)
  • IFC4 Export (Technology Preview)
  • Redesigned Floor Manager - updated user interface improves performance for floor management workflows. New controls allow you to insert a floor at a desired elevation
  • User Definable Key-ins - new key-in arguments for Catalog_Type and Catalog_Item. Identify user defined components by name
  • Break Structural Member
  • Annotation Scale support for Electrical Tags
  • Dynamic loss coefficient for Duct Sizing - With the newly integrated ASHRAE database into the Duct Sizing workflow, you can now use laboratory determined fitting loss coefficients within your design.
  • New Mechanical Components  - Two new fittings, Square Throat Cross and Radius Throat Cross fittings are added to the Rectangular Connectors
  • Dynamic Views - Align Annotation to ACS Option for DV
  • Dynamic Views - Auto Annotate key-in w/ Cache View
  • New configuration variable USTN_SUPPRESS_CROPPLANESECTIONGRAPHICS, (enabled by default) prevents Dynamic View clipping planes (all six sides) from generating section graphics in Cached Views, so that the intersecting edges display as open lines/curves 

To learn more about this release, requirements, FAQs, and other related information, please reference the ReadMe.