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BUILDING ISM is due for launch next year and is designed to provide Bentley with the glue to bring its products together, share structural project information efﬁciently, and make it much easier to generate design documentation. And most importantly, users won’t have to keep track of which design changes will affect who since the ISM will manage all of the transactions automatically. It certainly looks to be a very exciting technology, but Bentley needs to ensure that its products are not only talking the same language, but talking to the right applications at the right time about the right pieces of information. And it needs to be able to do all of this without making the whole system too complex to set up and manage. This article was originally published in AEC Magazine, July/August 2007, and can be found on the publication’s Web site, www.aecmag.com. Copyright 2007 Electronic Design Automation Publications. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. FBEAM-RAM LINK Fabsec, the leading expert in the ﬁeld of plated beams, developed a link between its FBEAM Cellular Beam design software and Bentley’s RAM Structural System. By joining the productivity of the RAM Structural System design model and the expertise of Fabsec, structural engineers can now fully design an entire building with Fabsec beams. Engineers initially model Fabsec beams within the 3D RAM design model. Using the model browser integrated into FBEAM, members to be designed as Fabsec beams are selected graphically and, through the data exchange, FBEAM seamlessly links all pertinent information from the model. Once in Fabsec software, the process of designing Fabsec beams is virtually at a click of a button, and —BE Magazine a process that previously took hours now takes seconds. For example, if an engineer decides to change the ﬂoor heights of a building in STAAD.Pro, the ISM can automatically notify the RAM Concept user that they have changed and will ask if he or she wants to automatically update his or her slab design. The ISM could then inform the connection designer using RAM Connection that the beam size has changed and even ask the detailer using Bentley Rebar if he or she wants to automatically update all fabrication drawings. Unlike a manual import/export workﬂow where users have to make sure they share the right data with the right people at the right time, the ISM can be set up to manage all transactions automatically. It can also manage the state of the transactions and keep a complete revision history including what was changed, who changed the design, and when it was changed. Not all information has to be made available to the ISM, and users are able to hold on to their private data and publish public data. For example, while a Bentley Rebar user wouldn’t be interested in the pipe locations in Bentley’s AutoPIPE, he or she would be interested in the location of the beams and columns, so only they would be made public by AutoPIPE and published into the ISM. In addition to Bentley’s core ISM structural software products, the ISM is also open to other products and disciplines. For example, the RAM Structural System has a bidirectional integration with the Revit modeler so you can take in a Revit or start in RAM Structural System and go back and forth. Users can also work with vertical data—for instance, for bridges or plant design. Conclusion BUILDING NEWS FROM BENTLEY Bentley BIM Approach/Features Preferred Over Revit 58 to 38 Percent in BIM Survey >>more Creating an ISM is a huge challenge for Bentley, but it is a logical response to the problem of solving interoperability between its many structural design/analysis/ documentation solutions. With so many products in its portfolio, Bentley certainly has to take action in order to deliver a cohesive structural engineering solution. And while amalgamating the 20 or so products into a single software application could be a long-term solution, such is the diversity and history of the products—each with different interfaces and workﬂows— that to introduce a master structural system too soon would simply serve to confuse and alienate its customers. GSA and Bentley Collaborate on New GSA BIM Guide >>more Workman Named to Twenty-First Century Chair >>more Bentley Acquires STAAD/CHINA and SSDD Software to Deliver Complete Structural Steel Solutions to China >>more Bentley Releases Signiﬁcant Update to Bentley AutoPIPE XM >>more 24 BE MAGAZINE | Volume 4, Issue 4 http://www.aecmag.com/ http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+4/BIMsurvey.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/GSA.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/Workman.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/STAADCHINA+SSDD.htm http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/Update+AutoPIPEXM.htm

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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