As a long time user and big fan of DEM, I get a little peeved when Bentley Support keep repeating the mantra that DEM is old technology and will be phased out and I quote:
'Drawing Views will replace Drawing Extractions at some point in the future'
'I’m not sure if Development still working on Drawing Extractions or how much time they are dedicating to it'
If I'm going to be forced down a path I don't want to go, can we at least have some time line as to when DEM will be phased out?
Thanks,
Hi Bear,
DEM can't cope past a certain project size. We find that we have to go with DV's to get any output at all.
Worse if you are using DEM + ProjectWise with caching servers.
Hopefully a lot of these issues will be addressed with the 64bit port... whenever that happens.
Auto-update: you can use CVE's if you do not want to have automatic udpates. Might even work with Design History.
Dominic
I have to opposite feeling > BV fails where DEM works.
And if you say CVE - DEM is easier to manage.
regards / Thomas Voghera
My feeling as well Thomas. Each time I delve into DV it just feels lacking to me.
DV's have their issues, but it is the way forward i think. I can't see Bentley porting or continuing to support / debug 64bit DEM.
It would be good to list the shortcomings so that they can be addressed?
One of my biggest gripes vis a vis DEM is the fact the extracted DV's are not coincident to the 3d model. This means that you can't reference the 2d extraction back into the 3d model without using the backref tool.
Dominic: when you place a SV in a drawing, you can select 'coincident' in a popup normally. Which is kind of coincident, no?