I am blogging today from my hotel room in Amsterdam - basking in the afterglow of another brilliant Be Seminar, which follows hot on the heels of London and Frankfurt before. Every single Be Seminar has built upon the excitement I first experienced in Philly. And I have to say, it's been great to witness our users' excited reactions to the V8i software portfolio. But our users are not alone; the world's media has caught on to V8i too. Check out a...

User Preference Files (UPFs) often get blamed for a lot of things -- in fact, it would not surprise me if they were seen by some as the cause for sun spots :). Seriously, that blame is very often misdirected. How? Well... there is a very big difference between cause and effect. Alleviating the effect (i.e. deleting your UPF) often does very little (if anything) to remedy the cause, which could be something much deeper and many times more serious....

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...

Today, Bentley passes another milestone as the Be Communities website is officially launched! Since going live for Be Conference in May 2008, the Be Communities site has been continually enhanced and updated. During this time, there have been dramatic upgrades in site infrastructure, speed and reliability. Officially, however, the site has remained in "beta" ... until today! What is Be Communities? Be Communities is a networking site for...

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...