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Winter Workshop 2010 - Presentation 5 - Chris Lepine: The Stone Towers
by bentleyuser - 09 March 2010
This talk focused around a pair of projects. The Signature Towers, Dubai and the Stone Towers, Cairo a business park with mixed use facilities including retail and a 5 star hotel. Chris has headed the implementation of 3D Microstation in Hadid’s office. The talk included a discussion of interoperability with Rhino and Maya and explored approaches to getting a team working together quickly in a complex 3D environment.
Download Chris's presentation (this is a large download).
Winter Workshop 2010 - Presentation 3 - Volker Thein: Dataset Masterclass
by bentleyuser - 04 March 2010
The dataset and customisations made to it stand at the centre of each of the Building products. In this revealing discussion Volker covered the core components of the dataset and takes you through the process of an office set-up.
Download Volker's presentation.
For further detailed reading try the Bentley Architecture Dataset Overview and Bentley Architecture Dataset Upgrade Guide 08.11.07. Please note that you have to be a Be Communities member to access these files.
Winter Workshop 2010 - Presentation 1 - Mervyn Richards: BIM, What do you think it is?
by bentleyuser - 02 March 2010
Our keynote presentation was given by Mervyn Richards, an established expert in the processes now known as BIM. The question "What is BIM?" has a variety of answers, many of which are at best misleading
It was an impassioned and hard hitting, discourse on collaborative working and BIM today, outlining some of the lessons learnt, with historical precedents from the many projects he has been involved with.
Download Mervyn's presentation.
Autodesk RealDWG 2010 patch available for V8i SS1
by Marc Thomas - 01 March 2010
Happy St David's Day!
A patch is available to add Autodesk RealDWG 2010 compatability to Bentley V8i (SELECTseries 1) applications. This update is available for download from Bentley SELECTservices Downloads/MySELECT CD.
The patch will automatically install to the relevant applications, the supported applications are listed here.
See the FAQ for installation details.
The patch simply adds RealDWG 2010 as yet another DWG format option to those available.
Robert Klaschka confirmed as BCUKI chairman.
by bentleyuser - 26 February 2010
At the AGM that ended the Winter Workshop Robert Klaschka was confirmed as BCUKI chairman.
Reports from the event and as many of the presentations as we can obtain will be published later this week.
The quality of the presentations and discussions arising was excellent, we all came away from the event having learned a great deal about a range of BIM topics from the conceptual to the deeply technical.
Luxology beta 2 Available for V8i SS1
by Marc Thomas - 13 January 2010
Beta 2 of the SS1 Luxology update is now available for download, see this link to the Be Communities for futher details:
Luxology Update for MicroStation V8i SELECTSeries 1 Beta2 Release Now Available
Luxology Update Available for V8i SS1
by Marc Thomas - 04 January 2010
Those of you who attended the BC UKI Visualisation event early in December will be pleased to hear that the first post Select Update 1 beta for Luxology has been posted.
It includes several features shown by Jerry Flynn at this event, including the redesigned tabbed Material Editor that offers even more settings for materials, sub-surface scattering for example.
The beta is accompanied by a draft update of the PDF guide to Luxology.
V8i SS1 Full Commercial Release Now Available.
by bentleyuser - 02 November 2009
Applications available for download now include the familiar trio of MicroStation, PowerDraft and Bentley View.
Also available are the radically updated ProjectWise Navigator V8i which replaces Bentley Redline, and ProjectWise i-model Composer V8i.
Note that there is a recent update to the pre-requisites that is needed to support all of these applications, version 08.11.07.03.
Be Together: The Be Communities ‘Live’ Conference
by Marc Thomas - 15 October 2009
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia.
Date: 17 May 2010
Time:
Bentley today announced the return of their major user event. Rebranded as Be Communities ‘Live’ the emphasis is being placed on user interaction and information sharing, an opportunity for people who have met online in the Be Communities to meet face to face IRL.
See bentley.com for Bentley’s full text.
Bentley Community Reorganisation
by David Warr - 28 July 2009
For many years the Bentley Community has provided a venue for Bentley product users to gather and exchange experiences. Whether you were a MicroStation user, or a user of any one of a host of application based on MicroStation, this was the place to come to enhance your knowledge.
Membership was on the basis of an annual subscription levied on individuals. The principle was that this type of membership allowed individual members to express their views without the pre-condition of ‘toeing’ their employers’ line. The committee is well aware that current economic conditions have meant that members are moving employment at a rate faster than the community can keep track of them. As a result members are in danger of becoming disenfranchised.
The Bentley Community is mindful that in times such as these it should be playing a major role in helping members maintain and improve their professional skills.
To this end the Bentley Community will no longer be charging an annual membership fee after November 2009. The only precondition of attendance at Community events is that attendees are Bentley product users and that they purchase an entrance ticket as appropriate. Events will be charged to cover the cost of venues, accommodation, and administration. In this way event costs will be kept to an absolute minimum for the foreseeable future.
There will four monthly events starting in September 2009 covering BIM, Modeling, Printing and Publishing, and Visualisation. The first two will be free to existing members, thereafter all events will be chargeable.
Details of these are on the Events pages so please make diary notes and don’t miss this great opportunity. The Community continues to be committed to the idea that face to face gatherings are important and wants your support to continue this tradition. It could be the key to your future.
David Warr
Bentley Community Chairman
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