• 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…
  • Re: PB with extraction DEM

    Hi emilberger Today i have expose my pb to Bentley and i hope some answer. So the general pb is how to work in 3D in architecture. Make a draw in 3d, no pb (or not yet..lol no). But the pb is to make extraction. With the DEM, many cells are not…
  • 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: 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…
  • Bentleys Content Options

    Anyone, We have a client requesting Bentley BIM, eventually AECOSim and I’m trying to get a handle on the different Bentleys content options. what works with the dataset catalogs and what doesn’t, what is parametric and what isn’t. From what I can…
  • Updating Doors in Parametric Cell Studio

    When modifiying and/or building new doors in PCS you can put an Elevation Door Swing Marker onto the door so that when it is extracted in bentley it will show which direction the door is to open. Is it poosible, and if so, how do you change the Elevation…
  • BIM Extractions

    I have been having a problem with calculating my extractions. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. The problem I'm having is that when I calculate my extraction, all the levels turn off, even though they were on before I calculated the extraction…
  • URG : Problems crossing TRIFORMA to Bentley ARCHITECTURE

  • 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?
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Mechanical Systems Resymbolization

    I am having problems getting my pipe ups and downs getting to resymbolize the way I want them to. I have tweaked the rules as far as I know how and am stuck. I want the ups to be circles and the downs to be horseshoes and I am having zero luck.
  • 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…
  • OpenBuildings Speedikon + Bentley Speedikon V8i

    A Single Architectural BIM Application for MicroStation and PowerDraft Bentley speedikon is a powerful and integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) application for architectural design, building performance analysis and documentation. Bentley…