BIM Objects and other resources

Hello

This seems increasingly popular

http://bimobject.com/

There are a couple of other similar resources on the go (don't know how good they really are)

There seems to be a serious absence of Microstation/AECOSim ready objects and components available via the web.

What are Bentley doing about this?

Certainly as architects, a lot of the time (most of the time), we don't need to be fiddling around 'designing' our own doors, windows and furniture, you just need a fairly basic door/window (like a place holder), then as the design progresses, you replace those with doors/windows from door and window manufacturing. We don't need to be re-inventing the wheel for these bread and butter type things (and grappling with frame builder and gasp ..... PC studio)

it doesn't look good when one is evaluating which BIM solution to invest in!

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  • I think I'm having a related problem with this PAZ file/ Datagroup linkage. Basically it was intended to be editable in the view window and provide dynamic width/height information for any given instance/placement. (very simple - generally I'm wary of PCS studio)

    However if one edits the handles it simply stays at width =0, height = 0 in datagroup explorer, no matter what.

    But if I right click in datagroup explorer and select 'edit' the correct width and height info comes up in the modify dialogue box.

    But in an imodel, ODBC driver at least the width and height always show up as either 0 or some v.large number.

    I'm using v .376, and PAZ file is attached

    WXH.paz
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