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

The Recession: CAD Managers Action Plan

The CAD Managers Forum addressed how we can learn from the recession and produced a CAD Managers' Action Plan...

5th of July 2010

Schrodinger’s CAD: The view from inside the box at AU 2008

Inspiration, innovation - Schrodinger's Cat is alive and well at AU 2008...

5th of December 2008

RE: MicroStation Memory Management

25th of November 2008

V8i: inspired or insipid?

The latest incarnation of MicroStation is finally available for download from SELECT. Will we see much change in the product? Does MicroStation V8i represent 8 years of advancement...?

14th of November 2008

RE: MicroStation Memory Management

12th of November 2008

MicroStation Memory Management

The topic of memory management can be quite confusing, owing to the inherently complex memory issues of a multitasking operating system like Windows, and foreign concepts like "virtual memory". The rest of this article describes some details for the technically inclined. But for the vast majority of users who simply want advice on how to configure their system to work on very large data sets, the simple answer is:

by Bentley Systems, 28th of October 2008

Do you know of any comparisons in the performance of XM on Vista 32 bit and 64 bit?

MicroStation is still a 32-bit application, but XM will run on Vista x64 if you have a version newer than 08.09.03...

28th of April 2008

Book of the Month: BIG BIM little bim

Finith A. Jernigan's "BIG BIM little bim" is available from the EatyourCAD bookshop. Nigel looks at whether it gives big or little value...

1st of February 2008

Magnum B.I.M.

Nigel drags himself away from re-runs of '80's TV programmes to investigate the strange excuses for not adopting BIM...

1st of February 2008