An avatar is more than just your profile picture. In addition to your username, it is what people identify you with in an online community. Which would you be more likely to remember: a face (avatar) and a name (username), or just a name? Now try to imagine remembering names when everyone has the same face (default avatar). Very hard. It's a fact that most people are wired to remember faces. This face perception is the basis for social interaction....

Our V8i launch event in Philly unveiled the industry's most comprehensive software portfolio ever assembled for infrastructure professionals. IMnsHO, the most exciting part was the new MicroStation. Keith Bentley gave a great presentation highlighting a lot of the really cool stuff in MicroStation V8i. Not only did he talk about the techniques used in MicroStation V8i for creating 3D models, but the visual presentation that goes along with his speech...

The fourth and final Be Seminar concluded on Friday in Paris, and from what I hear, it was nothing short of spectacular! The venue, the attendees, and the software made for quite a do! One colleague reported: "The energy was excellent from all attendees ...the fact that almost all presentations were given in French was a total hit!" And the energy of those in attendance wasn't the only reason for celebration; the Cadastre and Land Development...

In this article, I'll show the results of some PDF file size comparisons I performed printing from MicroStation 8.5, 8.9, and 8.11. I'll also compare PDF file sizes produced by MicroStation 8.11 printing to both pdf.pltcfg and the Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard Windows printer driver. You should be able to reproduce these results if you care to. In all cases, I printed using the default Untitled workspace and the standard, unmodified pdf.plt / pdf.pltcfg...

Earlier this week, we announced this exciting news about our agreement to distribute the rendering engine from Luxology LLC in MicroStation. I am personally very excited about this agreement and I expect it will be extremely welcome news for MicroStation users everywhere. 3D visualization, photo-realistic presentations, and animations, have become a mainstream part of nearly every AEC project. And, as everyone whose ever been involved in the process...