In 1999,I encountered a product called Project Bank I was very impressed because aside from accessing a single DGN file by multi user, It also has a message system that alerts users for clash. There are more useful functions of this product that the industry is looking. This product i think would be of great value if they bring it back.
I have not heard of the product "Project Bank". Who produced this as I do not believe this is related to anything that Bentley has produced? Was it a Document Management System? Can you clarify exactly what you are trying to achieve as it may be able to be performed in existing Bentley software.
RegardsAndrew BellTechnical SupportBentley Systems
It was actually a Document Management System. But I think it was separate from Team Mate now called ProjectWise.
Vicente
You are absolutely correct.
Back in c.1999 Bentley did have a product called ProjectBank. It was based on Microstation that allowed multiple editors of a DGN file.
It was also around the same time that Bentley launched Vecon (sorry maybe spelt wrong)
A handful of companies tried it but it wasnt stable enough to maintain. It also meant the dgn file wasnt a pure dgn, which caused issues.
One thing that came out of ProjectBank was the Design Histiry functionality, which we still have in Microstation today.
Yes it would be good to have something similar to ProectBank back in play
Ian
Andrew Bell said: have not heard of the product "Project Bank"
You're too young!
As Ian Lapper writes, ProjectBank was an innovative technology created under Keith Bentley's direction in the MicroStation 95 era.
Vicente Francisco said:aside from accessing a single DGN file by multi user, It also has a message system that alerts users for clash
Yes: it provided a way for several people to edit separate parts of a DGN file simultaneously.
It did not prove successful with customers for several reasons. However, it informed several subsequent technologies that you find in MicroStation today.
Ian Lapper said:it would be good to have something similar to ProjectBank back in play
Vicente Francisco said:I'm hopeful that ProjectBank will come out again
We're unlikely to see its return while MicroStation uses the current DGN format. You might anticipate something along those lines if MicroStation were to use another format, propelled for example by SQLite (take a look at the SQLite Consortium members) as we see in the products for handling iModels.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Actually It was more utilized by the engineering configuration of MicroStation back then. For me it was too early to launch the product because awareness of BIM was not that popular. But I hopeful that the Project Bank will come out again.
Viecon was some sort of predecessor to working CAD in the cloud. An online collaboration program that (at least in my country) was presented back in 2000 together with the brand new Microstation V8. It was way ahead of its time, but I deemed Viecon futureless. We still used a 14k4 dialup modem back then.
Working through the internet. Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.
Who knew.
Ivo Blaauw= = = = = = = = = = = = =Look what the CAD dragged in...