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This month's recommended reads from Resources are:

You can’t learn to BIM if you won’t get wet

This month, the soapbox returns to its roots with a good old rant. The whole direction of BIM, the way companies are handling its adoption - or not as the case seems to be - is drowning any benefits that it could provide...

1st of March 2010

Bentley Architecture Dataset Overview [ext]

Datasets add the ‘I' to ‘BIM', i.e. the Information to Building Information Modeling. They power the Bentley Architecture engine and without datasets, the application is not able to create a building information model and to generate drawings, rendered images and animations, reports, schedules, analysis data and other output. All such outputs depend on different inputs from the datasets. Therefore, it is vital to understand the different dataset components and their interactions, relationships, and dependencies, and how they affect the BIM as well as outputs from the BIM.

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by Bentley Systems, 21st of July 2009

Is your business smart enough?

1st of May 2009

Seeing is believing [ext]

Getting Serious about CAD Management - Nigel Davies of Evolve Consultancy analyses the results of their latest CAD Survey...

by Nigel Davies, 26th of January 2009

Axiom’s “Global Workspace Manager”

To check each workstation using MicroStation only can be a long slow slog, hence why the “External configuration interface” has enjoyed a top ten position in the MicroStation Wish List. So we were very interested to hear from our friends over at Axiom that they had a new product, “Global Workspace Manager” which should fulfil some of those needs...

17th of January 2009