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Drawing Composition, in general, is all about creating and composing drawings from your design. In MicroStation, drawing composition can be achieved efficiently and easily using Dynamic Views. Dynamic Views is a general term that encompasses several related technologies which share a common goal of making model analysis and documentation more interactive and intuitive. These technologies range from use of seeds, models, and detailing symbol styles to saved views and references. Dynamic views allow creation of live, intelligent views of a design that update automatically as the design evolves, thus making the task of composing drawings simpler and faster.

Broadly speaking, there are following stages in the drawing composition workflow:

1. Setting up project standards – Create drawing seeds, drawing boundaries, detailing symbol styles etc.
2. Design composition – Reference all your project designs into one design composition model, also called as Master model. This is usually at a full scale (1:1).
3. View composition and sheet composition – In view composition, you compose desired views (section, plan, elevation etc.) and link callouts with placeholder fields to these views. In the sheet composition stage, you will reference these views in a sheet model at a printable scale. In graphical terms, this workflow resembles something like this:(Please visit the site to view this video)
   This is the stage where you can use the Create Drawing dialog to automate the drawing and sheet model creation and place the views in them.
4. Scheduling and reporting – Add numbering and index to the sheets and place the index sheet as a table or generate a report.
5. Delivery (Printing, publishing and export).

In this blog series, we will primarily focus on stages 1, 3, and 4 and learn to achieve them using dynamic views.

In the first blog series, we will take an example project from the Building domain and demonstrate how to use the drawing seeds for a plan callout, automate dynamic views to generate sheet models and place plan views in them. We will also learn about indexing sheets and generating reports from the sheet index.

In the second blog series, we will take a Civil project example and create a drawing boundary seed. The drawing boundaries can then be used while placing multiple named boundaries in one go. We will also learn about fields and use them in the sheets.

Let’s start with the basics

Before going into details of dynamic views, lets understand its components.

Design Model

A design model is a collection of elements that are drawn for creation of desired model. The design model is drawn to actual size.

A design model can be a 2D or a 3D model. You can create it by clicking the Create Model icon in the Models dialog and selecting the Type setting as Design or Design from Seed. In the design model, you can create the design of your project such as a building, bridge, road etc.

Saved Views

A saved view is a capture of the current state of the view and is stored in the DGN file with a name. It stores information such as the view window size, level display, clip volume, and other view attributes.

A saved view can be of different types, namely, saved view, section view, elevation view, detail view, and plan view. The last four view types are usually associated to the respective callout tool. The first type, that is a normal saved view is created from the Create Saved View tool accessible from the Saved Views dialog.

Once created, you can apply the saved view from the Apply Saved View tool in same Saved Views dialog. While applying the saved view, you can toggle the status of various settings stored in the saved view.

You can also attach a saved view as a reference on a drawing or sheet model. In further blogs, you will learn how the saved views can be automatically referenced in the drawing or sheet models.

Drawing Model

A drawing model is an optional intermediate stage between the 3D design and sheet model. The drawing model is a 2D model in which you reference a design at full scale to add annotations, dimensions, callouts and other embellishments.

The drawing model can be manually created by clicking the Create Model icon in the Models dialog and selecting the Type setting as Drawing or Drawing from Seed.

You can manually reference a saved view created in the design model into the drawing model using the following steps:

1. Open the drawing model.
2. From the Models dialog, drag the desired design model into view window.
3. In the Attach Source Files window that pops up, change the Attachment method to Interactive and click OK.
4. In the Attach Reference dialog that opens, select the desired saved view in the Orientation section, select Live Nesting (required only if you have references in the source design file), and click OK.
5. Enter a data point to place the reference.(Please visit the site to view this video)

Sheet Model

A sheet model contains design model references that are scaled and positioned to create a printable drawing. It can be considered as an electronic drawing sheet. A typical sheet model looks something like this:

It contains a sheet boundary with a title block and is typically referenced from the sheet boundary seed. The title block contains text fields that display various properties ranging from the model name and annotation scale, to properties of the sheet index and WorkSet.

The design model is referenced into the sheet model directly or via the drawing model. In a project, multiple sheet models are created depicting section, plan, elevation, and details of the design.

The steps for referencing a design model manually in a sheet are the same as that we saw in the drawing model section above. However, the recommended workflow is to automatically create the sheet model and place the reference in it using the automated dynamic views process. We will learn more about this in the upcoming blogs.

Callouts

Callouts are detailing symbols that contain fields and links that update automatically and make models more interactive and intuitive. The different callout types are section, elevation, plan, and detail. If a callout has an associated saved view, it’s marker is displayed in the model.

Callouts can be placed in 3D design models as well as in 2D drawing or sheet models. Following are the steps to place a simple section callout:

1. Start the Place Section Callout tool (Drawing > Annotate > Detailing > Place Section Callout).
2. Enter a data point to define the start point of the callout.
3. Enter second data point to define the ending point.
4. Enter third data point to define the depth of the callout. A section callout is placed

The Create Drawing check box in each of the callout’s tool settings window opens the Create Drawing dialog, from which you can automate the dynamic views.

Sheet Index

A sheet index is a centralized collection of sheets in your WorkSet. It contains all the sheets created in your project with appropriate numbering.

The sheet index is accessible from the Sheet Index tab of the Explorer.

There are different ways in which you can add a sheet to the sheet index:

• Manually, by dragging the sheet from the Models dialog into the Explorer’s Sheet Index tab.
• While creating a sheet model from the Create Model dialog, you have the option to add the sheet to the sheet index.
• While creating sheet model from the Create Drawing dialog, you can add the sheet to the sheet index. 

The sheet index has advanced options such as changing the numbering style, adding custom properties, creating folder structure for segregating sheets by types, and also placing the index sheet as a table and generating a report definition out of it.

Tables

In MicroStation CONNECT Edition, you can now place tables directly into your models. You can also place a table from other sources:

• using the data in an Excel workbook or a .csv file
• report definition
• sheet index

The Place Table tool is accessible from the Tables ribbon group in the Annotate tab of the Drawing workflow.
To place an empty table:

1. Start the Place Table tool.
2. In the Place Table tool settings window, enter the desired number of rows and columns in the Row Count and Column Count fields respectively.
3. Enter a data point in the view window. The table is placed.

Double-clicking a cell in the table opens the Text Editor window in which you can enter the text to be displayed in the cell.

Reports

A report definition is a way to extract and present data from a DGN file in a tabular format. The result of the evaluation of a report definition is a report. The report can be placed as table. The report definition is created in the Reports dialog (Drawing > Analyze > Reports).

When you place the sheet index as a table, a report definition of the sheet index is automatically created in the Reports dialog.

Now that you are aware of models and other components, in the next blog we will learn about seeds and their use in dynamic views automation.

     Below you will see Class names for some AutoDesk Application types. These names can be used to create Global Program Associations for a Datasource in the ProjectWise Admin module.

   However, please note: The separate MEP, Architecture and Structure are available for only Revit 2016. For Revit 2017 these verticals are ‘merged’  into the Revit 2017, and so they have no separate class names.

     The class names for rvt, rfa, rft, rte extensions supported by basic Revit integration are:

Class Name                               Application Name

Revit.Document.PW.RAC_2016      Revit Architecture 2016

Revit.Document.PW.RME_2016      Revit MEP 2016

Revit.Document.PW.RST_2016       Revit Structure 2016

Revit.Document.PW.OB_2016        Revit 2016

Revit.Document.PW.OB_2017        Revit 2017

     The class names for advanced Revit integration projects (pwdiproj extensions)are:

Class Name                               Application Name

Revit.Project.PW.RAC_2016       Advanced Integration for Revit Architecture 2016

Revit.Project.PW.RME_2016       Advanced Integration for Revit MEP 2016

Revit.Project.PW.RST_2016        Advanced Integration for Revit Structure 2016

Revit.Project.PW.OB_2016         Advanced Integration for Revit 2016

Revit.Project.PW.OB_2017         Advanced Integration for Revit 2017

      AutoCAD 2016 and its verticals:

AutoCAD.acad.Drawing.PW.20.1                         AutoCAD 2016

AutoCAD.acadArch.Drawing.PW.20.1                AutoCAD Architecture 2016

AutoCAD.acadCivil3d.Drawing.PW.20.1             AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016

AutoCAD.acadMap.Drawing.PW.20.1                 AutoCAD Map 3D 2016

AutoCAD.acadPID.Drawing.PW.20.1                  AutoCAD P&ID 2016

AutoCAD.acadRaster.Drawing.PW.20.1            AutoCAD Raster Design 2016

AutoCAD.acadMEP.Drawing.PW.20.1                 AutoCAD MEP 2016

AutoCAD.acadMech.Drawing.PW.20.1               AutoCAD Mechanical 2016

        AutoCAD 2017 and its verticals:

AutoCAD.acad.Drawing.PW.21.0                         AutoCAD 2017

AutoCAD.acadArch.Drawing.PW.21.0                AutoCAD Architecture 2017

AutoCAD.acadCivil3d.Drawing.PW.21.0             AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017

AutoCAD.acadMap.Drawing.PW.21.0                 AutoCAD Map 3D 2017

AutoCAD.acadPID.Drawing.PW.21.0                  AutoCAD P&ID 2017

AutoCAD.acadRaster.Drawing.PW.21.0            AutoCAD Raster Design 2017

AutoCAD.acadMEP.Drawing.PW.21.0                 AutoCAD MEP 2017

AutoCAD.acadMech.Drawing.PW.21.0               AutoCAD Mechanical 2017

        Note: For AutoCAD\Civil 3D 2018 it will be 22.0 suffix. For AutoCAD 2015 the suffix is 20.0, and for AutoCAD 2014 the suffix is 19.1

     The below screen capture shows where to create a more specific Program Class Name that targets a more specific application for Global Program Association setup. (derived by PW Admin module > Applications node > New > Application > highlighting the existing Action tab > Populate description AutoCad> then browsing, for example, to the Acad.exe which yields a more desirable AutoCAD.acad.Drawing.PW.21.0 (instead of AutoCAD.Drawing.PW).

     Alternatively, you can Select the Browse button > Advanced tab > type in the AutoCAD.acad.Drawing.PW.21.0

     You can also edit the APPINFO.XML file as in the below screen captures.

We are excited to announce a new release of OpenBridge Modeler V8i SELECT series 3. This new release features several user requested enhancements and bug fixes and introduces over 30 enhancements to the product since our last release in February. There is tremendous interest from the bridge owners, designers, contractors and consultants in Bridge Information Modeling, and OpenBridge modeler is an effective tool for enabling the necessary workflows and processes.

What's New in V8i SELECTseries 3

• Wingwalls modeling.
• User drawn templates for column cross-sections.
• Variable pier cap definition (linear, parabolic or circular variation).
• Superstructure cross-section drawings for girder-slab, slab bridges.
• Read camber and deflections from LBC and report screed and girder top elevations.

• Additional Enhancements:
  • Abutment backwall sloped to follow deck slope.
  • Allow multiple bearings in a single bearing line for CIP Box Girders.
  • New template constraints based on user drawn construction lines.
  • Model top and bottom cover plates for rolled steel girders.
  • Isolated footings, can now be rotated individually.
  • Select H-Piles from standard list, instead of dimensions input.
  • 2 additional edge modifications (fillet and chamfer) for variable pier caps.
  • Segmental Bridges: Define for one span and Copy deck variations to other spans.
  • Model sloped footings under piers or abutments.
  • Substructure Dialogs – improved Units consistency, now follows design file settings.
  • Beam Library: New Template sections for PADOT.
  • Deck Elevation Report – Along individual Beam Paths.
  • Segmental bridges – Copy Constraints option.
  • Haunch drawn on separate level?.
  • Option to Switch Pier or Abutment Template.
  • Activate Bridge / Unit – from context/pop-up menu.
  • Access consolidated LBC library, instead of CONSPAN library.
  • GUI Refresh: several icons updated for consistency.
  • Bearing Components – Assign different materials for Grout, Pad and BeamSeat.
  • Quantities Report – Beam Seats as part of substructure.
  • "Name Prefix" Changes.
  • Pier Template Window now shows a 3D Preview.
  • Stiffener and CrossFrames – Wizard Enhancements, several new options added.
  • New OBM and Lumen RT Training Manual available under LEARN server.
  • CONNECT Advisor.

The Bentley Institute Student Ambassador Program provides students with many opportunities to apply (and further develop) their technical, innovative, and management skills, becoming more polished for their future careers. Being a Student Ambassador allows them to showcase their talents in various activities and adopt the role of a leader on their campus. The global network of ambassadors helps students around the world exchange ideas about leveraging technology to effectively prepare for careers in infrastructure industries.

Each Bentley Institute Student Ambassador is either nominated by educators at their school or volunteers and is then approved by Bentley. Ow Yu Zen, Bentley Institute Student Ambassador at Universiti Malaysia Pahang, was vouched for by the former Bentley Institute Student Ambassador of his institute. He was then nominated by his educators to take up the position, when the former ambassador graduated.

Ow Yu Zen is a fourth year student of the Faculty of Engineering Technology, studying Infrastructure Management. With an aim to introduce his peers to different kinds of products and disciplines, he organized a virtual session on structural design and analysis with STAAD.Pro in the month of March 2017. That session was followed by a second virtual session in April 2017 on naval engineering with MAXSURF.

With these activities, he exposed his fellow students to a variety of Bentley solutions and made them aware how they can use them in their studies, providing them with the opportunity to hone their hands-on technical skills in several fields of engineering. Ow Yu Zen enjoys sharing this knowledge with the students and encouraging them to use Bentley’s solutions to improve their projects and their understanding of engineering optimization. To enhance his own skills, he makes use of the video materials available via Bentley’s STUDENTserver. That way, he always keeps learning—just as he encourages his classmates to do.

After his graduation, he hopes to enter the engineering consultancy industry and further sharpen his design and analysis skills, as an engineering technologist. 

Ow Yu Zen is just getting started and we wish to acknowledge his efforts to support his classmates so far. We wish him the very best for all he plans to do in the remainder of this year, as a Bentley Institute Student Ambassador!

Je vous invite à suivre un wébinaire que je présenterai sur le logiciel de Bentley Systems LumenRT destiné à la création et à la simulation d'environnements animés pour mettre en scène et communiquer vos projets. LumenRT permet de produire des rendus saisissants, des animations de haute qualité et des scènes animées novatrices en terme de communication du projet.

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Wir laden Sie ganz herzlich ein zu unserer Webinar Reihe zum Thema ganzheitliche Lösungen für den Lebenszyklus Ihrer Infrastrukturprojekte : Von der Erstellung eines integrierten 3D-Modells bis hin zum Datenaustausch und multidisziplinärer Teamarbeit.

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Thema: BIM Fortschritte im Bereich Flughäfen und Transportwesen

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In dieser fünf-teiligen Integrated Infrastructure Lifecycle Webinar-Reihe wird Ihnen Hubertus Bergmann, Senior Application Engineer bei Bentley Systems, zeigen, wie BIM-Prozesse und -Standards die Planungs-, Design- und Bauphasen Ihrer Projekte vorantreiben und die operative Umsetzung verbessern können. 

Im ersten Teil der Webinar Reihe erfahren Sie mehr über:

• die verschiedenen BIM-Levels und wie Sie eine BIM-Roadmap definieren
• BIM für eine umfassende Projektabwicklung

Fachübergreifende Teamarbeit und Datenaustausch

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LEAP Bridge Steel CONNECT Edition V17 contains enhancements and bug fixes. The following enhancements are available in this release.

Major Enhancements

• Modeling, analysis and design check for Tub-Girder bridges
• 3D Finite Element Modeling and Analysis for both I-Girder and Tub-Girder bridges

Additional Enhancements

• Option to Specify Bracing of Concrete-Encased Top Flange

When this option is selected, the top flange of the beam encased in hardened concrete will be assumed to be braced for non-composite sections (no shear connectors).

• Detailed Camber Diagrams/Tables
  

In addition to the camber due to the vertical deflection, following rows are added:

Geometric Camber: It includes camber values due to vertical curve.

Reference Line Elevation: Reference line is a straight line connecting top of web elevations at two adjacent supports.

Top of Pavement Elevation: Top of pavement elevation at each tenth point.

Top of form Elevation: Elevation at each tenth point where the top of form should be placed before deck placement.

Blocking Offset: Offset of the top of web from a straight line connecting top of web elevations at the first and the last support. This value is reported only at supports.

For the detailed release notes see the attached PDF file.

(Please visit the site to view this file)

LEAP Bridge Steel CONNECT Edition V17 contains enhancements and bug fixes. The following enhancements are available in this release.

Major Enhancements

• Modeling, analysis and design check for Tub-Girder bridges
• 3D Finite Element Modeling and Analysis for both I-Girder and Tub-Girder bridges

Additional Enhancements

• Option to Specify Bracing of Concrete-Encased Top Flange

When this option is selected, the top flange of the beam encased in hardened concrete will be assumed to be braced for non-composite sections (no shear connectors).

• Detailed Camber Diagrams/Tables

In addition to the camber due to the vertical deflection, following rows are added:

Geometric Camber: It includes camber values due to vertical curve.

Reference Line Elevation: Reference line is a straight line connecting top of web elevations at two adjacent supports.

Top of Pavement Elevation: Top of pavement elevation at each tenth point.

Top of form Elevation: Elevation at each tenth point where the top of form should be placed before deck placement.

Blocking Offset: Offset of the top of web from a straight line connecting top of web elevations at the first and the last support. This value is reported only at supports.

For the detailed release notes see the attached PDF file.

(Please visit the site to view this file)

Enhancements in RM Bridge CONNECT Edition V10 Update 3 (V10.03.00.18):

RM Bridge CONNECT Edition V10 Update 3 contains the following enhancements and error corrections:

1. Stress-leading Superposition

2. Bilinear Hysteretic Elements

3. New RM-Set for Time History (RHIST)

4. Enhanced TCL Editor

5. RM View: Customized Report Generation

6. Enhancements in GUI including: new easy-access icons, Load visualization in the main window, display support reactions in the result pad, Material Quantity report, option to specify Homogenous Wind Field, Sub-steps input in Time History Analysis (Action TINT), graphical view of assemblies in Analyzer, and more.

7. Error Corrections

   Note: RM Bridge View and RM Bridge Advanced will be delivered in one package. While installing RM Bridge Advanced, RM Bridge View automatically will be installed on your machine. Prior to installing the latest version, please uninstall any pre-existing RM Bridge View. (Please visit the site to view this file)

Enhancements in RM Bridge CONNECT Edition V10 Update 3 (V10.03.00.18):

 RM Bridge CONNECT Edition V10 Update 3 contains the following enhancements and error corrections:

1. Stress-leading Superposition
2. Bilinear Hysteretic Elements
3. New RM-Set for Time History (RHIST)
4. Enhanced TCL Editor
5. RM View: Customized Report Generation
6. Enhancements in GUI including: new easy-access icons, Load visualization in the main window, display support reactions in the result pad, Material Quantity report, option to specify Homogenous Wind Field, Sub-steps input in Time History Analysis (Action TINT), graphical view of assemblies in Analyzer, and more.
7. Error Corrections

 Note: RM Bridge View and RM Bridge Advanced will be delivered in one package. While installing RM Bridge Advanced, RM Bridge View automatically will be installed on your machine. Prior to installing the latest version, please uninstall any preexisting RM Bridge View.

(Please visit the site to view this file)

AssetWise Asset Reliability now includes the capabilities of Bentley's proven heritage products including AssetWise APM, Exor, and InspectTech. AssetWise Asset Reliability enables you to develop proactive strategies that improve long-term asset reliability and performance. Optimize processes for the day-to-day operations of assets to minimize operational costs and maximize your production capabilities. With risk-based inspections, maintenance task analysis, and reliability-centered maintenance analysis, you can develop high-quality reliability strategies and programs that ensure your assets and asset investments deliver optimal value, maximize safety, and enhance regulatory compliance.

More information: Asset Reliability Software
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AssetWise Operational Analytics now includes the capabilities of Bentley's proven heritage products including Optram and Amulet. AssetWise Operational Analytics helps you move beyond isolated business intelligence applications. Understand operational performance data and costs in near real-time, and identify areas for improvement that increase safety and reliability to optimize asset performance. With advances in industrial sensor technology and the internet of things (IoT), massive amounts of asset data is now available, and you need to harness the data from these diverse sources and utilize it for actionable intelligence. AssetWise consolidates operational and asset data and performs analytics to reveal patterns in interactive dashboards and reports, enabling you to visualize your existing operation and make informed decisions which affect asset performance, safety, security, and compliance.

More information: Predictive Operational Analytics Software
Product Support: Amulet | OpTram

AssetWise ALIM now includes the capabilities of Bentley's proven heritage products including eB and Exor. AssetWise ALIM improves overall accessibility, quality, integrity, and relevance of asset data, in-context, across the asset lifecycle. Control structured and unstructured information, control documents and records, manage changes, and ensure the delivery of accurate information to engineering, operations, and maintenance. Inherently spatial and network aware, AssetWise leverages digital engineering models to support superior asset performance. AssetWise ALIM integrates configuration and change management best practices and manages relationships between information types including asset data, documents, organizations, requirements, people, and processes.

More information: Asset Lifecycle Information Management Software
Product Support: eB | Exor