ARTICLES

Saved Views 101

What is a Saved View and how do you use them...?

26th of July 2010

Locating a project

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

7th of July 2010

Basic MicroStation file maintenance

Of all the problems we get sent, one of the most common is when files start to “misbehave”. The steps in this article can be used to alleviate many file problems...

7th of July 2010

Autocad - Annotative Scales

Annotative scaling is the process in which you select a scale for a drawing and all the annotative text, dimensions, blocks and hatches change to reflect the scale. This can also be set independently for each viewport so multiple scales can show on one sheet drawing.

21st of April 2010

User Configurations and Preferences 201

MicroStation V8i SELECTseries 1. Setting up and configuring user configurations and preferences has always been a challenge for systems managers. Here we give a run down on how to go about storing yours.

25th of February 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

CAD Managers Seek Self-Improvement

Robert Green sums up the overall attendence, mood and focus for the CAD Managers in attendence at this year's Autodesk University...

by Robert Green, 22nd 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

Is your business smart enough?

1st of May 2009

Debugging MicroStation

There are times when MicroStation cannot find a file it is supposed to. It could be that an interface is missing, none of your cell libraries are listed, or you receive an error message when trying to open a DWG file. Whenever something like this happens you need to be able to identify where the problem is occurring and the best way of fixing it...

23rd of April 2009