CADDManager on May 29th, 2008

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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CADDManager on October 12th, 2007

Bentley BIM Approach/Features Preferred Over Revit 58 to 38 Percent in BIM Survey Click here to read 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 […]

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CADDManager on May 4th, 2007

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 InterPlot. […]

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CADDManager on May 1st, 2007

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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CADDManager on April 30th, 2007

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 […]

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CADDManager on April 29th, 2007

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 […]

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CADDManager on September 11th, 2006

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 […]

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CADDManager on March 15th, 2006

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 […]

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CADDManager on November 23rd, 2005

For those of you who use STAAD, here is a bit of interesting news. For those of you that use Bentley products, this could get interesting to see how this is incorporated into the Bentley product line of CAD software. Exton, Pa. – Nov. 22, 2005 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has […]

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