Trusting Bentley Structural Quantities

How to add the Bentley Structural quantities spreadsheet as a trusted document...

26th of August 2010

BIM Deliverables: CAD Managers Action Plan

The CAD Managers Forum began what might turn out to be a lengthy series discussing what it is people ask for in a BIM deliverable, and what it is they actually use it for. Typically, they are not the same thing...

8th of July 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

A CADBIM Manager’s Career Alternatives

Charles A. Doppleganger returns with what might be his last interruption for a while. After being made redundant he provides some career therapy...

5th 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

Human evolution...

"It stikes me that the CAD Manager's role truly is survival of the fittest"
Nigel, Dec 2009

30th of November 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

GC Forum Presentations 21/10/2009

The CAD Managers Forum held an Introduction to Generative Components forum on 21/10/2009. The presentations are available here...

26th of October 2009