• V8i Walls And The Part FamilySystem

    In V8i, the Wall Catalogs Entries now drive the size of a Wall by the Wall Catalog Type, (height and width), at the time of placement, rather than the Part and Family system. Wall Catalog Instances are now selected when placing Walls from the pull down…
  • Creating A Datagroup Space Catalog That Matches Your Project Program

    The information below shows a method for creating a space catalog that matches a project program. It assumes that you are using a shared Site Dataset for the majority of your Datagroup Catalogs like walls, doors, plumbing fixtures, etc., but because your…
  • Mechanical catalog in MDB and XML and...?

    I'm trying to find out if the catalogs in the Mechanical section are something we can use for something. Is it possible to setup some rules – for example can it be setup to show a list of the available sizes of duct(without going the the Manufature catalog…
  • 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…