Could someone at Bentley confirm if they intend to be certified as part of the buildingSMART open BIM certification? See http://www.buildingsmart.org/certification It appears that all the other big names have followed this routes so I wondered why Bentley hadn't.
I'm guessing my the lack of response from Bentley that they don't consider this to be important and sums up Bentley s lack of will to provide IFC compliant software. There must be something in this if the top players are able to get their programs through the certification. What are Bentley doing about this, if anything?
Hi Stuart,
AECOsim Building Designer SS4 has significantly extended IFC capabilities including COBie export that will help with meeting current UK government requirements.
The following post is now out of date as SS4 was released recently but gives an indication of the current commitment: communities.bentley.com/.../237681.aspx
I don't know what the current position is regarding BuildingSmart.
Regards
Marc
Volker, thanks for the info.
So, as to Stuart's question: You've applied for the certification on ABD instead of individual products, and are awaiting confirmation from buildingsmart?
Thanks,
Shawn
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Unknown said: So, as to Stuart's question: You've applied for the certification on ABD instead of individual products, and are awaiting confirmation from buildingsmart?
Yes.
We still have to go through buildingSMART's certification procedure.
Regards,
Volker
On the same note, what are Bentley's plans to implement the recently released IFC4?
Just wanted to say thanks to all the responded to my query. Good to know that Bentley are progressing this.