• library components

    Is there any way to design prefabricated structures using the library components in Open Building Designer software?
  • "Publish i-model failed - Revit API"

    I cannot export the imodel from Revit 2020. The models have been upgraded from Revit 2018. Any idea what can it be? Many thanks.
  • Importing Electrical Conduit from Revit to OpenBuildings

    Hello, I am working on a project utilising OpenBuildings (Update 6). The electrical engineer on the project has modelled conduit using Revit and I am attempting to utilise this to produce electrical layout drawings. I downloaded the Bentley plugin…
  • Aecosim Reference file expiration

    Hello all, I am working on a project where we put reference 3d models in background and do annotation in 2d file to prepare drawing in AECOSim. Reference models we receive is from USA office. We are receiving updates reference models every week. Those…
  • Named Expression - System. String.Substring

    Hello, I am trying to create a named expression that will be used to control the display of context menus based on the model name prefix, (e.g. Sketch 1, detail 5.258, section t785) the user is in. My approach will only look at the prefixes and will…
  • Aecosim# floor selector issue#

    Dear all Currently i m facing problem in selecting floor(floor selector). I could not able to select any floor in floor selector. I don't know whether its from installation issue or any options to change. please give some suggest to sort out this issue…
  • RE: Aecosim

    Hi, your last AECOsim Questions were posted in the German Building Forum. Please bookmark this link: http://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/f/5917#pi20290=1 for the English Building Forum. You will save time…
  • RE: Where or how do I get a trial version of AECOsim?

    Hi Claudio MOSCHINI, If your company already uses Bentley Products please contact your Admin to give you Download permissions. If you aren't already Bentley user please contact the Bentley Headquarter of your country to get in contact with an…
  • How to print in grayscale and monochrome

    Hello, I have a question regarding printing setting for a drawing. I am trying to print a drawing just like this: I tried making the background on a single level and color (level-1 and color 128), what is printed in grayscale in the example. …
  • Solar Analysis Utility unavailable

    Hello good bentley Community I'm having a big problem with AECOsim Building Designer (and microstation too). The solar Analysis Utility is blank and doesn't let me do any solar analysis. Please help me
  • Extract Drawings as Independent editable 2d DGN models

    Hello Good Bentley Community Today I need your help to address an Issue I have. I have a very nice 3d model in AECOsim Building Designer, but I need to send some plans to some dudes using AutoCad (uuggghhh), anyway, I need to extract plans from my…
  • View Mis-alignment DEM

    Hi All Apologies if this has cropped up elsewhere and once again if it's a very simple problem but... We are using AECOsim Building Designer V8i (SELECT Series 3) through (Projectwise V8i SELECT Series 4) and are producing our architectural drawings…
  • rebuilding Revit Architecture in Bentley Architecture

    Fisrt, I am going to answer the question why not build models in Bentley Architecture? Right now the company I work for is a Revit shop. I have worked in offices that use two applications that do the same job depending on job requirements. Frankly it…
  • PB with extraction DEM

    Hi i have a pb when i extract. i'am going to migrate from V8 2004 + TRIFORMA to 8I + Arhitecture. My pb is that the DEM don't calculate me some cells and i don't know why. I attach a file with some cells and a drawing def. This cells are calculated…
  • AECOsim Building Designer Dataset_GB now available

    On May 18, 2012, the initial version 08.11.09.309 of Dataset_GB for AECOsim Building Designer was released. It is now available from SELECT downloads under Product Line: Building Analysis and Design, Category: Enhancements and Updates. It was created…
  • Node display when connecting pipe - not visible

    Does anyone know how to reset a model so that the nodes at the end of pipes will be visible when connecting other components? At present in one model the nodes at either end of most components are not visible. Why would it come and go in a model?
  • Re: PB with extraction DEM

    No sorry, i don't know. no Knowledge in program. I have just make a config from V82004 to V8I and make some basics macro. i am just a little Draftsman who have pb to work in 3D because somethings (i expose that in a message before) that work in triforma…
  • Re: BuildingSMART

    As a founding member of the IAI and active participant in many buildingSMART activities and initiatives around the world, top-quality support for IFC as the key interoperability standard for cross-discipline coordination across disparate BIM applications…
  • Adjusting Hollow Metal door heads

    I need to modify the head of a hollow metal door to be 4" without adjusting the rest of the frame. I am not sure if this needs to be done in PCS or in Bentley. When in bentley, if you double click on a door it gives you an option to adjust the frame thickness…
  • PCS Part Assignment Not Recognized in Extraction

    I have successfully added a part assignement to the component Door_Elev_HingLeft_Comp_1 and 2 in Parametric Cells Studio.. I have added this part assignment to get the door swing elevation marker to show up dashed. When I place the door into the model…
  • RE: Drawing Extraction Settings for BBES

    I typically am asked to show conduit runs as single dashed lines on my 2D drawings, however the extractions of the model show conduit as a double line. Does anyone know how to change the Extraction settings so as to show the desired single line for conduit…
  • Re: BV, DV and detail of design

    Hi i have read your messages and allow me to ask a question (SS2 + Architecture). In V8 2004, i have use DEM and it was very long to calculta my 2d. we are going to use V8I SS2. we have remake our config. We have pb to make extraction with the DEM…
  • Urgent : Crossing from Triforma to V8I + ARCHITECTURE

  • Plan Door Swing in PCS

    I have been updating door in Parametric Cell Studio. The questions I have are about the plan view of the door swing. The first question I have has to do with adjusting the door width. When I adjust the door width it does not scale the Plan Door…
  • Re: FYI: buildingSMART alliance January 2013 Challenge - Cobie

    Im afraid, this out-of-context information re. the ‘bSa COBie Challenge 2013’ result is rather misleading and omits a number of important aspects. As this was a ‘challenge’ rather than a ‘competition’, I don’t want to go down the road arguing which company…