• 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…
  • 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
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • BuildingSMART COBie Challenge 2013 | Result

    Bentley successfully participated in the ‘buildingSMART COBie Challenge 2013’ for architectural and mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) design using AECOsim Building Designer. COBie Based on the IFC 'Facility Management Handover' Model…