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“At a joint press conference, Autodesk, Inc. and Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) software. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write the companies’ respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed [...]

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What’s Left for 2008: Bentley Reveals All (Almost)
By Rita Stange, ConnectPress Senior Editor
In this morning’s welcome ceremony Bentley Chief Marketing Officer Edward Mueller announced that this year’s BE Conference here in Baltimore, Maryland soared with over 2,000 registrations representing 50 different countries. In addition there were more than 70 journalists, 179 industry speakers [...]

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Bentley BIM Approach/Features Preferred Over Revit 58 to 38 Percent in BIM Survey
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I was part of the press conference where they annonced some of the results.
“A quantitative analysis of the recent BIM survey showed that 58 percent of building professionals preferred the approach and features of Bentley BIM solutions while 38 percent [...]

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My final installment on the BE Conference 2007 in Los Angeles
The conference comes to a close and ti was quite a training event. Learning everywhere you turn. The Platform Team did the Wednesday keynotes and discussed the two platforms that the firm was focused on: Microstation and ProjectWise.
ProjectWise includes Navigator, StartPoint and [...]

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Another packed day…
First I heard from the Bentley BIM team on how BIM is changing the industry and how we can all tap into this movement or get left behind. Client demands and competition among architects to gain a leg up have impacted us.
Then it was on to some training in Bentley Architecture. [...]

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Wow - what a day!
Half of the day was taken up by Keynote addresses. A parade of Bentley folks speaking to the issues of the day and the plans for tomorrow.
First up - Malcolm Walters - COO
He mentioned that there were over 2000 in attendance and that the whole event was about learning. [...]

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Day One of the Bentley conference comes to a close. There were many classes to choose from today and many ways to get more info.
Bentley Architecture for Users Part I
Bentley Architecture for Users Part II
Well managed information in distributed teams - for CAD Managers
BIM Based Integrated Practice
The ProjectWise Experience
Much more expected tomorrow - but [...]

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You can see and hear the presentations that were given on the web. Bentley has kindly shared the video presentation and information that was presented at this event.
Now Available Online at www.bentley.com/bimsummit
Leading European building industry executives gathered in London to guide each other and the industry. The central topics of this event were chosen [...]

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Bentley announced that it has connected MicroStation to Google Earth. As a result, for the first time, users can view and navigate 2D/3D models of projects in the context of the Google Earth environment.
Check it out for yourself. Google is connecting to the CAD Market!!
www.bentley.com/earthtools
After a large and successful Beta test, Bentley is rolling [...]

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