Moving Cameras

When you use the Define Camera tool in V8i to move a camera, it looks like AccuDraw doesn’t work...

9th of July 2010

Locating a project

Ensuring that a MicroStation project is accurate and to the correct coordinates...

7th of July 2010

Saved Views and Dynamic Views 101

Saved Views, Dynamic Views... what's the difference?

2nd of June 2010

3D View Rotation

Using mouse buttons in MicroStation can improve your speed and help you to control views without having to continually move your cursor up (or down) to the View Controls toolbar...

7th of May 2010

3D Tentative Points

If you’re an ACS and AccuDraw whizz, you may sometimes forget “old school” methods of controlling locations in your MicroStation files...

12th of April 2010

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

UK BIM Standard: What next?

The AEC (UK) BIM Standard is a practical, workable standard for any company that has invested in Revit, or Bentley Architecture, or any other BIM software of choice, and has stopped to ask “Now what?”

Nigel writes about AEC for AEC magazine...

by Nigel Davies, 27th of January 2010

HOK BIM Solutions Wiki

[HOK] decided to call it ‘HOK BIM Solutions” as it is for our HOK buildingSMART BIM community and we want to primarily demonstrate answers to issues we face in our daily work. Postings will be by HOK and invited guests, viewing is by anybody inside and outside HOK.

23rd of December 2009

Bentley Architecture V8i Review

Product Summary
Bentley Architecture V8i is Bentley’s BIM application for architectural design that is part of a large integrated multi-disciplinary set of building solutions for design, analysis, and collaboration, built on the new MicroStation V8i platform.

Pros: Inherits all the power and comprehensiveness of MicroStation's CAD platform in solid and surface modeling, documentation, rendering, and animation; federated database approach lends itself much more easily and efficiently to distributed work processes and large projects; new release includes better conceptual design and new space planning capabilities; views are now dynamic, ensuring better drawing coordination; new display styles allow high-quality presentation graphics to be easily created; native support of Rhino and SketchUp files with live links adds to long list of supported formats; new Luxology rendering engine allows high-end renderings and animations to be created within the application.

Cons: Continues to remain a very complex application with a steep learning curve; quality of the documentation is poor, making it even more difficult to learn the application; new dynamic views adds an additional layer of complexity with more constructs to set up and work with; distributed file structure makes project organization more difficult to set up and manage

by Lachmi Khemlani, 20th of November 2009

Creating Compound Cells

Find out how to create compound cells in XM.

9th of November 2009