AE

EC (UKK) B
BIM Protoco
ol fo
or
Be
entley AEC
A COssim Building
De
esig
gnerr
Addiitional dettail and enhancem
e ments for impleme
entation o
of the AEC
C (UK)
BIM Protocol for Bentlley users .
Versio
on 2.0 eptember 2 012
Se Re-publish
hed as a suupplementary
documentt to the geneeric AEC (U
UK) BIM
Protocol
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AE
EC (U
UK) BIM
B P Prottocoll for
Be
entley
y AE
ECOssim Build
B ding g
De
esign
ner
Conttents
1 Intrroduction 4
1.1 d
Background 4
1.2 The Committtee 5
1.3 Disclaimer 6
1.4 Scope 6
1.5 Update Proccedure 6
1.6 References 6
1.7 Definitions 7
2 Besst Practice 7
2.1 BIM 7
2.2 oduction
Drawing Pro 7
3 Pro
oject BIM Execcution Plan 7
3.1 Roles and Responsibilities
R s 7
3.2 Project BIM
M Execution Pla
an 7
3.3 Project BIM
M Meetings 7
4 Collaborative BIM
M Working 7
4.1 Common Da
ata Environme
ent (CDE) 7
4.2 Preparation
n for publicatio
on 7
4.3 Legal Stuff 8
4.4 Data Security & Saving 8
4.5 Reviewing BIM
B Data 8
5 Inteeroperability 8
5.1 n
Introduction 8
5.2 Incoming CA
AD/BIM Data Managementt 8
5.3 Intended Usse of Model 8
5.4 Data Transffer between Packages 8
6 Datta Segregation
n 9
6.1 General Prin
nciples 9
6.2 Division 10
6.3 g
Referencing 10
7 Mo
odelling Methodology 12
2
7.1 Model Deveelopment Metthodology 12
7.2 Graded Com
mponent Creation 13
7.3 Drawing Co
ompilation 13

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7.4 Spatial Loca

ation & Co-ord
dination 15
7.5 Units and Measurement
M 16
8 der Structure and Naming Conventions
Fold 17
7
8.1 n
Introduction 17
8.2 Project Fold
der Structure 17
8.3 General Nam
ming Conventtions 18
8.4 Model File Naming
N 18
8.5 Division Nam
ming 18
8.6 Library Objeect Naming 18
8.7 Object Prop
perty Naming 18
8.8 View Namin
ng 18
8.9 View List Sccheduling 18
8.10 Data Organ
nisation 18
8.11 Sheet Namiing 19
9 Preesentation Styyles 19
9
9.1 Introduction
n 19
9.2 AEC (UK) Co
ompliant Mate
erials 19
9.3 Annotation 19
9.4 ment
Text Assignm 19
9.5 Line Weightts 20
9.6 Line Pattern
ns 20
9.7 Line Styles 20
9.8 nd Filled Regio
Hatching an ons 20
9.9 View Templlates 20
9.10 Dimensionin
ng 20
9.11 Drawing Bo
orders and Titlle Blocks 20
9.12 Symbology 21
9.13 Copyright 21
10 Ressources 21
1
10.1 n
Introduction 21
10.2 Software 21
10.3 nt / Resource Libraries
BIM Conten L 21
10.4 Keynotes 21
10.5 Custom mettadata 22
10.6 Keyboard Sh
hortcuts 22
11 App
pendices 23
3
11.1 Model File Naming
N Codess 23
11.2 Project Fold
der Structure 23

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1 In
ntrodu
uction
n
1.1 B
Backgrou
und
The AEC (UK) BIM Standard
S wa
as released in Novemb
ber 2009.

Version 2.0 of the AE

EC (UK) BIMM Protocol was
w publish hed in Septeember 2012
2 to
improve th
he process of design in
nformation production, managemeent and excchange.

The general processes, workflow ndards applicable to BIIM working are

ws and stan
defined in
n the above AEC (UK) BBIM Protocol documen nt. The stanndards defin
ned
herein are
e supplementary to the
e AEC (UK) BIM Protoc col and add ress the specific
requiremeents of AEC
COsim Build er, operating as a coree BIM autho
ding Designe oring
tool.

Copyrightt Notice:

It is imporrtant to note
e that this sttandard will only becom me truly useeful if as ma
any
companie a possible. To that exttent, it may be freely diistributed an
es adopt it as nd used
in any formmat necess sary, provide ed credit is given to the
e committeee.

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1.2 T
The Com
mmittee
The Bentley sub-commmittee hass representaatives from architectura
a al, engineerring and
construction compannies in the U
UK, large an
nd small, he
ence the adooption of the AEC
(UK) moniker. The BIM committe ee is workin
ng together to realise a unified, us
sable,
co-ordinatted approac ng Information Modellin
ch to Buildin ng in a desiign environm ment.

Committe
ee

Chris Seym
mour-Smith chris@seym
c oursmith.co..uk
(Chair)
Nigel Davie
es Evolve Co
onsultancy nigel@evolve
n e-consultanc
cy.com
Paul Wodd
dy White Fro
og Publishing
g paul@whitef
p frog.co

Contributtors

Ian John BDP

Stephen Holmes Foster & P
Partners
Mathew Brrett AECOM
Steve Wrig
ght Ramboll U
UK
Volker The
ein Bentley S ystems

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1.3 D
Disclaimer
All the advvice outlined in this do cument is foor information only. Thhe authors and
a
ng companiies take no responsibility for the utilisation of these procedures
contributin
and guideelines. Theirr suitability sshould be considered
c carefully
c beefore embarrking
upon any integration into your cu urrent work
king practice
es.

None of th
he recommeendations in
n this docum
ment are inttended as a replacemeent for
companiees who alrea
ady have ann AEC (UK))-based or BS1192-com
B mpliant systtem.

1.4 S
Scope
This suppplement is intended tto support all BIM woork undertaaken using
Bentley’ss AECOsimm Building DDesigner across
a a practice, or o
on a speciffic
project, unless
u othe
erwise dicttated by the
e client.

The AEC (UK) BIM Protocol

P for Bentley AE
ECOsim Building Desiggner builds on
o the
procedurees and methhodologies defined in the AEC (UK
K) BIM Prottocol and shhould
be read in
n conjunctio
on with that document.

Terminolo
ogy and refe
erence to fu
unctionality is based around the Beentley
MicroStation/ABD pla
atform.

1.5 U
Update Procedu
P ure
Proposed changes and addition s to this sta andard shou uld be subm
mitted in writting
with accom mpanying examples,
e d
discussion, oro other suppportive maaterial to the
e
Bentley suub-committe ee. Feedba
ack will be gathered
g and continuouusly reviewe ed; they
will be colllated to form
m new revissions at app
propriate inttervals.

It is expeccted that this standard will undergo a relatively rapid evoolution process, as
the industtry adapts too the impliccations and advantages s of BIM meethodology.

1.6 R
Referencces
This stand
dard is writtten with refe
erence to th
he following documentss:

• BS1192:2007

• PAS1192-2

• BS8541-1 and -2
2

• AEC (UK)
( BIM Protocol v2.0
0

• AEC (UK)
( CAD Standard
S fo r Layer Nam
ming v3

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1.7 D
Definition
ns

2B
Best Practic
P ce
2.1 B
BIM
• Sub-ddivide Desiggn Models bbetween dis sciplines, an
nd within sinngle disciplines to
allow effective ac
ccess to the
e data at all times. A typical refereence file app
proach
shouldd be taken. Refer to Seection 5.All changes too the model shall be ca arried
out ass 3D modific
cations, rath
her than 2D
D ‘patches’ tot maintain the integrity y of the
mode el.

• Where e detail nee

eds to be ad
dded over ‘ffrozen’ data
a, a Dynami c View should be
refere
enced using g Cached mmode.

2.2 D
Drawing Producttion

3P
Projecct BIM
M Execcution
n Plan
n
3.1 R
Roles an
nd Responsibilit ies
3.2 P B Execution P
Project BIM Plan
3.3 P
Project BIM
B Mee
etings

4C
Collaborativ
ve BIM
M Wo
orking
4.1 C
Common
n Data Environm
E ment (CD
DE)
4.1.1 Work In Progress (W
WIP)

4.1.2 Shared

4.1.3 Publication
n and Document Issu
ue

4.1.4 Archiving

4.2 P
Preparattion for publicati
p ion
Sheet Models from th he BIM sha ll be publish
hed to PDF (preferred)) or other no
on-
editable fo
ormat, wherre they can be checked d, issued annd archived as
d, approved
traditionall documents
s according
g to existing company procedures.
p .
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n of the BIM data prior tto sharing shall

Validation s check that:

• All refferences an
nd extraneo us views an
nd elements
s shall be reemoved from the
BIM;

• Mode
el file has be
een compre
essed;

• File fo
ormat and naming
n convventions co
onform to the project BxxP,

• Data segregation
s n conforms to the agreed project BIM
B methoddology,

• Mode
el files are up-to-date, ccontaining all
a users’ mo
odifications,,

• Any unnecessary
u y reference files have been
b removved and anyy other asso
ociated
data required
r to load the moodel file is made
m available,

• Mode
el is correctly
y assemble
ed through visual
v inspection,

• Any changes
c since the last issue are co
ommunicate
ed to the prroject team.

4.3 L
Legal Stu
uff
4.4 D
Data Seccurity & Saving
4.5 R
Reviewin
ng BIM Data
D
Untrainedd users shall not open BBentley Building models directly. IInstead, the
e model
eviewed usiing the pub lication of an
shall be re a i-model (.i.dgn) and viewed usinng the
freely ava errogation and analysiss of the mod
ailable Bentlley View or,, where inte del is
needed, Bentley
B Nav
vigator.

5 In
nterop
perab
bility
5.1 In
ntroducttion
5.2 In
ncoming
g CAD/B
BIM Data
a Manag
gement
• CAD data
d may need be shiffted to within
n the Solids
s Working A
Area prior to
o import
– see section 7.4
4.

5.3 In
ntended
d Use of Model
5.4 D
Data Tra
ansfer be
etween Package
es

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6D
Data Segre
S gation
n
6.1 G
General Principles
A BIM mo odel should not be thouught of as a single file containing
c aall the proje
ect data.
Instead, maximum
m us
se should bbe made of Bentley’s re eferencing ccapabilities to
enable coollaborative working in a BIM envirronment, inc cluding worrking practicces and
team man nagement as well as th he technologgical solutio
ons coveredd by the rem mit of
this docum
ment.

This section deals wiith the princciples of sub

bdividing a model for thhe purposes
s of:

• multi-user access s,
• operaational efficie ge projects,
ency on larg
• inter-d
disciplinary collaboratio
on.

wing practices shall be followed:

The follow

• No mo
ore than on
ne floor or fa
açade shall be modelle
ed in a singlle Design file.

• A mod del file shall contain da

ata from one
e discipline / project staakeholder only
o
(altho
ough excepttions may a pply for Buiilding Servicces where m multiple disciplines
conveerge).

• Drawiing Models will be publlished to se eparate filess and shouldd not be stoored as
multipple models within
w a sing
gle containeer file. No more
m than oone Drawing g Model
will be
e stored in each
e file. Th
his is to maximise the effectivenes
e ss of Bentle
ey’s
refereencing capaabilities and to allow mu ulti-user acc
cess to all aaspects of the
projecct.

• Sheett Models will be create d as separa d should noot be stored as

ate files and
multipple models within
w a singgle containe
er file. No more
m than oone Sheet Model
M
will be
e stored in each
e ata tracking and drawinng managem
file to allow for da ment.

• In ord
der to avoid duplication n or co-ordin nation errorss, clear defiinition of the
e data
ownership throug ghout the liffe of the pro
oject shall be defined aand docume ented.
Eleme ent ownersh hip may tran nsfer duringg the projecct time-line – this shall be
expliccitly identifie
ed in the Prooject BIM Execution
E Plan.

• Wheree multiple models

m makke up a sing gle project, a container model should be
consid
dered, whos se function is to link the various assemblies ttogether forr
coordination/clas
sh detectionn purposes.

The BIM
B will be made
m up of a series of 3D Design
n Files (1).

The re s are refere nced into a single “Container” filee (2). This is
elevant files s the
locatio
on from whe ere the Dyn namic View ws (3) are created. Whiile it is poss
sible to
create
e Dynamic Views
V direcctly in the 3D
D Design Fiile, from othher Saved Views
V or
even from a Sheet Model, u using a Conttainer file allows you too manage th he
Viewss more easily (you do n not need to keep jumping betweenn references) and it

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avoidss any proble

ems with pe
eople remov
ving or adding referencces to the working
w
files.

When n the Dynammic Views a re created, a Drawing Model file (4) is also. You
could create thesse within the
e Containerr file, but ass these mayy need to be
e edited,
or issued to external consulttants, it is better
b ep them as separate files.
to kee

The Drawing
D en referenced into the Design Moddel of a She
Models are the eet File
(5). This is neces ovide DWG compatibilitty. As it is uunlikely that any
ssary to pro
projecct contains only
o 3D datta, 2D Model data (7) can
c also bee referenced d into
here if necessaryy.

The Design
D Model is re-refeerenced intoo the Sheet Model of thhe same Sh heet
File, producing
p “P
Paperspace e” and “Mod delspace”. The
T drawingg Border (6 6) is also
refereenced so tha
at the office
e details, pro
oject inform
mation and ddrawing title
es can
be added and a printed
p drawwing produc ced.

6.2 Division
6.3 encing
Refere
Reference es should be treated ass read-only information
n for the purrposes of iterative
design. In
n no circumsstances shoould elemennts be modified from annother disciipline’s
reference. In cases where
w inform
mation need ds to be rev
vised, two m
methods can n be
used: a deesign changge request tto the owne
er of the refe
erence or bby taking ow
wnership
of the elem
ments:

• Userss reference the informa

ation from th
he required file.

• The re
equired elements are ccopied throu
ugh into the
e active file and the Lev
vel
remappped to iden
ntify new ow
wnership.

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• When n first referencing the m

models toge
ether, ‘World
d Coordinaates’ shall be
b used
as the
e orientationn.

• When n splitting a file into sub

b-models the informatio on should bbe split out using
u
the Coopy/Move Fence
F Conteents to New T Processsing Mode should
w File tool. The
be set to Move.

6.3.1 Inter-Disciplinary Mo
odel Refere
encing

Each sepa arate discippline whethe er internal or

o external, involved in a project shhall
have its own BIM mo odel, compoosed of multtiple referennces, and iss responsiblle for
the contennts of that model.
m A disscipline cann reference in another ddiscipline’s models
for coordin
nation purposes.

• Coorddinate syste
ems and Pro oject North rotation shaall be agreeed and docuumented
at the
e outset. No deviation fr
from these shall
s occur without
w perm
rmission of the
t BIM
Co-orrdinator. Refer to sectio
on 7.4 for fu
ull details.

• Detaills of any dis

scipline-spe
ecific require
ements, suc
ch as the diifference beetween
Finish
hed Floor Le evel (FFL) a
and Structural Slab Levvel (SSL), sshall be fully
y
docummented in th he Project B
BIM Executiion Plan.

• A sing
gle Floor Maanager dgnnlib should be
b defined and
a shared between ea
ach
discip
pline to ensu
ure conform
mance of levvels.

Floor Manager is
s used to se
et the workin
ng planes of
o the buildinng in the Z axis.
a

A projject is divide
ed into Buil dings or Zoones and Flo
oor Manageer should be
e set up
to reflect the samme demarca ation with th ding design ation used for the
he same cod
namin ng of Buildinngs as usedd in the file naming.

Within
n a building , the prima
ary floor leve b set up ass Structural Slab
els should be
Level (SSL).

Floorss will be nam

med accord
ding to the AEC
A (UK) naming convventions.

i.e. B2 Basement Level 2

B1 Basement Level 1
00 Ground Flo oor
01 First Floor
02 Second Flo oor
etc…

Betwe een each prrimary floor Reference Planes may be set upp as required d to
meet the design needs of th he building. These may
y include, buut are not exclusive
to, the
e following:

Finish
h Floor Leve
el (FFL)

Net Usable
U Level (NUL)

ended Ceiling Level (S

Suspe SCL)

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Under Structural Slab (USL))

• Owne ership of ele

ements shalll be properrly communicated and ttracked thro ough
the prroject time-line (e.g. flo
oors may be e created by
y the Architeectural team
m, but
are th
hen adopted d by the Stru uctural team
m to form pa
art of the loaad-bearing
structure).

• Each discipline shall

s be connscious that referenced d data has bbeen produc ced
from the
t perspec ctive of the a
author and may not be e modelled tto the required
speciffication for other
o purpooses. In this case all relevant partiees, with inp
put from
the BIIM Manager(s), shall cconvene to discuss
d the potential ree-allocation of
ownership.

• Shoulld a team de evelop a ‘sttarter modeel’ for a partn

ner disciplinne, such as
defining the struc
ctural mode el in conjunc
ction with thhe architectuure, this sha
all be
done in a separa ate model wwhich shall thhen be referenced as rrequired.

• This starter
s mode
el may be p passed to th
he partner discipline
d whho shall then
assumme ownersh hip of it. The
e partner dis
scipline shaall open thiss starter model and
refere
ence, by Woorld Coordin nates, the originator’s
o model.
m

• With models
m prodduced for B Building Serv vices, several disciplinnes may be collated
in a single model, as a singlle piece of equipment
e may
m requiree connection to
variou us services.. In this sce nario, the model
m may beb split in vaarious ways s. The
BIM Co-ordinato
C r shall be coonsulted in defining the e project-sppecific strate
egy. In
all insstances the contents m must be clea arly identified through thhe model na ame.

7M
Modellling Metho
M odolog
gy
7.1 M
Model De
evelopm
ment Me
ethodology
An AEC(U UK)-complia
ant dataset, Dataset_G
GB is availab
ble for downnload from
Bentley’s SELECT siite. This Da
ataset_GB assists
a to de
evelop projeects in early
y stages

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bles rapid model

as it enab m develo
opment and d allows for very large m
models to be
b
created with
w low hard dware requiirements.

7.2 G
Graded Compon
C nent Cre
eation
• A corp ed DataGroup Catalog is encouragged in orde
porate or prroject-share er to
maintain consisteency of nam ming during content cre
eation. (Refe
fer to Appen
ndix
11.2)

• In the
e early stage ect, simple parametric objects shoould be used. The
es of a proje
visuall appearancce should noot be the prrime concerrn at this pooint. Once lo
ocations
and sizes have been
b confirm
med objectss should be swapped oout for Compound
Cells or custom DataGroup
D items to a higher
h level of visual deetail.

Doorss example:

- Duuring planning and dessign development stages, doors m might be pla

aced
ussing A-G322 2-Doors-Sin
ngle-Flush (a
( G1 grade
e object), reegardless off vision
paanels. Sizes
s can be adjjusted, and appearanc
ce is based on the 2D
re
epresentatioon.

- A visually corrrect Compo ound Cell might

m then be
b used to re
replace the simple
pa
arametric do oors for thee constructioon stage. Thhis would coontain enou
ugh
de
etail to prep
pare larger sscale elevattions (a G2 grade objecct), showing g vision
pa
anels and basic repressentations of o handles/hardware (usse block mo odelling
wh
herever pos ssible for deetail to imprrove the spe
eed of Dynaamic View
ge
eneration an nd keep filee sizes to a manageable minimum m).

• Cells should be created

c andd placed as User-define
ed DataGrooup items. The
T use
of Sha
ared Cells should
s be a
avoided as Instance Da ata cannot bbe attached to a
Shareed Cell there
efore the obbject cannot be scheduuled or havee automatic
c
annottation rules applied to i t.

7.3 D
Drawing Compila
ation
Drawing compilation
c and preparration for pu
ublication shhould be caarried out us
sing fully
assembled compilatioons of view
ws and shee ets within the
e BIM envirronment (prreferred)
using Dyn
namic Viewss.

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1. The model
m is com
mpiled from its various references as a singlee container,
speciffically create
ed for creatting Views.

2. Dynam a created for each pla

mic Views are an, section and elevati on in the
container. These should be u used to create an indiv vidual DGN files using the file
creatio
on tools avaailable in AB
BD. These should
s com
mprise a singgle Drawingg Model
with a single Vieww reference ed in, for con
ntrol of reference and llevel display
y, as
well ass the additio
on of manu al annotatio on as requirred.

3. The Drawing
D Mod del should n
not be referrenced direcctly to a Sheeet, but insttead
referenced into th
he “Modelsppace” of the
e Finished Drawing
D at 11:1. The
“Modeelspace” shoould be a D
Drawing Mod del to allow additional aannotation as
require
ed.

4. The “M Modelspacee” is then reeferenced in

nto the Sheeet Model at a reduced scale to
fit onto
o the sheet,, and clippe
ed using a non-plotting
n shape.

7.3.1 Sheet com

mposition direct
d from within the BIM

Sheet com mposition from within a BIM enviro onment shaall be establ ished through the
creation and
a referenc cing of callo
outs, saved views and sheets fullyy within ABD
D but
utilising re es whereverr possible.
eference file

Care shall be taken to hat any reference data is availablee and visible
t ensure th e prior
to the pub
blication of documentat
d tion from the BIM.

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7.3.2 Sheet com

mposition frrom Viewss/Output file
es

Output file
es are creatted from the
e BIM using
g Drawing Extraction
E M
Manager or byb
exporting cached Dynamic View ws to merge
ed files. MicrroStation caan then be used
u for
further non-dynamic editing and sheet compilation.

If it is a re
equirement to
t export da ata from AB
BD in ‘Real-W
World’ co-oordinates, th
hen the
export ope eration mus
st be perform
med from th
he Drawing Model (succh as a floor-plan)
and not from a compiled Sheet ffile.

7.4 S
Spatial Location
L & Co-ordination
BIM data modelled more
m than 2 1.45km fromm the originn (in any plaane) shall be e
shifted to 0,0,0 prior to importingg or referencing into Beentley produucts to avoid
accuracy issues. This s shift shall be agreed,, consistentt and identiffied in the Project
P
BIM Execcution Plan.

When starting any BIIM project, iit is critical that

t the info
ormation fallls within a certain
c
area of the DGN file. The “Solidss Working Area”
A is app
proximately 42.9km aro ound
0,0.

If the proje
ect is drawn World Coordinates, it will, more thaan likely, fall outside
n to Real W
of the SWWA. This can n cause erro
ors when coopying inforrmation, it m
may be notic ceable
to a very small
s degre
ee that meassurement is
s inaccurate
e, but Dynam mic Views anda
Drawing Extractions
E may be gennerated inco
onsistently.

So that yo
ou have acc
curate elem ents and yoour informattion is set oout to the su
urvey,
we recommmend you follow
f the in
nstructions below to se
et up the corrrect locatioon and
coordinate
e systems for
f your projject:

1. Identiffy a known location forr your projecct. This mayy be a grid iintersection
n, a site
g out point, a survey sttation, or a physical
setting p objject such ass the corner or a
buildin
ng.

2. Ascerttain the OS coordinate oint, or the local grid if the project is not
es for this po
in the UK.

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3. You need to reas

ssign the 0,0
0 point in yo
our seed file
e to these ccoordinates..

4. Keyin “GO=” (or “active

“ origiin”) to repos
sition the file
e’s “Global Origin”.

The Global
G Origin olids Workinng Area. By default
n is exactly in the centrre of the So
this is labelled 0,0
0. All we are y doing is changing thee label (the X and
e effectively
Y coordinates) off that point.

5. In you
ur Tool Settings windoww, make surre Mode is set
s to Monuument. Ente
er the X,
Y and Z co-ordinaates of yourr setting out point.

6. Your status
s bar prompt
p will n
now read:

Globa
al Origin > Id
dentify the m
monument at
a x,y,z in th
he design.

7. Snap onto the se etting out po oint and click to accept. The Globaal Origin will be
reposiitioned to su
uit this setti ng out point.

8. Save settings.
s

Y b accurate and also set out to the

Your projecct will now be e correct sitte coordinattes.

The projectt will now be e physicallyy located at the centre of the DGNN file. Other files will
still be in th
he old location, which mmeans the innformation may not linee up when
referenced.. You eitherr need to re position the e information in every ffile (which may
m not
be practical) or tell MiccroStation too use the co
oordinates to
t align youur reference es.

When attacching a surv

vey file you will need to
o make sure
e that you u se Coincide
ent
hod to align the global o
World meth origins.

This can bee set up to always

a attacch referenc
ces Coincide
ent World bby default us
sing the
configuratio
on variable:

MS_REF_DE
EFAULTSET
TTINGS > attachMe
ethod=wor
rld

Use > in ca
ase you hav
ve other valu
ues for MS_
_REF_DEFAULTSETT
TINGS defin
ned
elsewhere.

7.5 U
Units and
d Measu
urementt
• Modeels shall use
e consistentt units and measureme
m ent across thhe project. Master
units and sub units shall b e millimetrees with two decimal plaaces in ordeer to
displa
ay accuracyy when using g the measure tools.

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er unit:
Maste millimetres

Sub unit:
u millimetres

Accurracy: 0.12

Resollution: 1000 per D

Distance millimetre

• CAD data
d should
d always be
e attached at
a True Scale when refeerencing intto the
BIM environment
e t.

8 Folderr Struc
cture and Nami
N ng
C
Conveentions
8.1 In
ntroducttion
8.2 P
Project Folder
F Structure
e
8.2.1 Central Re
esource Fo
older Struccture

Standard seeds, titleblocks, dataagroup cata

alogs and other non-prroject-speciffic data
shall be held within th
he server ba
ased Centrral Resource
e Library, w
with restricte
ed
access.

- <SE
ERVER NAM ME>\Resou rces\
- Bentley
+ V8i
V
+ V8iSS3
V
- Worksspace1
- BuildingDDatasets
+ Bentley
B Data
aset
+ Company
C Daataset2
+ Interface
es
+ Projects
+ Standardds
+ Users

1.
To con
nfigure this correctly, p
point _USTN ACEROOT to this locatio
N_WORKSPA on.

2.
To addd company--specific da
ata to the coonfigurations of ABD, ccreate a
COMPAANY_DATAS SET variablee to point to
o this locatio
on. You will need to pre
epend
or app
pend the sta
andard conffigurations such
s as BB__LEVEL_DG GNLIBLIST T,
DG_CAATALOGS_P PATH or TFD DIR_PART to include this dataset .

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PROJ_DATASET can be used to include pro oject-specifiic items inc luded in the
e
Project BIIM Resourc
ces Library ((refer to sug
ggested fold
der structuree, Appendix x Error!
Referencce source not
n found.)..

Refer to Bentley
B umentation for full deta
docu ails on configurations.

8.2.2 Local Project Folder Structure

8.3 G
General Naming
g Conventions
• Where e custom filles are crea
ated for connfiguration of
o Bentley prroducts, the
ey shall
adoptt the namingg conventio on of existing elements and prefix wwith a 3-character
abbre dentify corp orate autho
eviation to id or.

Exampless:

Exissting name Custom

m name

Stan
ndards.cfg ABC_S
Standards.cfg

Shee
etsizes.def ABC_S
Sheetsizes.d
def

bb_a
annotation.c
cel ABC_ bb_annotat
b ion.cel

8.4 M
Model File Namiing
8.5 D
Division Naming
g
8.6 L
Library Object
O Naming
8.7 O
Object Property
P g
Naming
View Naming
8.8 V
ded as part of the view name, the View descrription field sshould alwa
Not includ ays be
completedd to assist in clarificatio
on of the vie
ew’s purpos
se.

8.9 V
View Listt Scheduling
8.10 Data Orrganisattion
The Projeect Explorer in MicroSta ation provid
des an organisational sstructure to the
t
views andd files within
n the BIM ennvironment. The follow
wing rules shhould be ad dopted
to help org
ganise, idenntify and sh
hare the BIMM model effe
ectively:

• Desig
gn files shou
uld contain oonly one Deesign Mode
el. Multiple m
models can lead to
confusion and arre not able tto be worke ore than onee person at a time.
ed on by mo

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• Drawiing files shoould be kep t in a separrate folder, away

a from tthe producttion
inform
mation. Thatt way manu ual changes s to the dataa can be avooided, main
ntaining
the effficiency of the
t Dynamiic View / Hy ypermodel concepts.
c

• Drawiing files sho

ould contain
n only one Drawing
D Mo
odel.

• If Drawing Models are creatted manually, the mode

el name shoould be iden
ntical to
the vie
ew that it will
w contain.

• All Sh
heet files should be kep
pt in a sepa
arate folder.

• All Sh
heet files should contai n only one Sheet Model, represennting the sin
ngle
drawing that will be printed ffrom that file.

• All Sh
heet Models amed to ma
s must be na atch the dra
awing numbber it contain ns.
Theree should nev
ver be mod els named “Sheet” or “Untitled
“ Shheet”. Referr to 8.11
beloww.

8.11 Sheet Naming

N
Sheet Models shall be b named b ased on the e Document and Drawiing Numberring
protocols established d for the pro
oject. These
e names mu
ust match thhe text as it
appears in
n the title bllock and anny schedules.

9P
Presen
ntation Styyles
9.1 In
ntroducttion
Black & White
W drawin
ngs will alwa
ays be prodduced usingg MicroStatiion’s Level
Overridess. These sho d turned on in the Shee
ould be set to colour 0, white, and et where
monochro ome output is required..

eas should be displaye

Colour are ed by turning the override off for thhat level.

9.2 A
AEC (UK
K) Comp
pliant Ma
aterials
A generic UK dataset, Dataset_ _GB, is prov ntley as parrt of the AECOsim
vided by Ben
Building Designer
D oduct. Thesse datasets provide an alternative basis for new
pro
parts and datagroupss, consisten
nt with the AEC
A (UK) protocols, BS
S1192 and
Uniclass.

9.3 A
Annotatio
on
9.4 T
Text Asssignment
Where annnotation is placed in 2 D or 3D Deesign Models or Drawinng Models,
Annotation Scale shaall always b
be applied.

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9.5 L
Line Weiights
There are
e 32 model line
l weightss. Each can be given a plotted thicckness acro
oss the
range of drawing
d sca
ales in .pltcffg files.

• Line weights
w shaall be assign
ned ByLeveel project-wide using a project-specific
DGNL LIB. These can be ove rridden in each
e Drawinng or Sheet Model as
ding should be kept to a minimum to aid conssistency.
requirred. Overrid

9.6 L
Line Pattterns
Line Styles
9.7 L
Linestyless will be deffined in the associated dataset’s dgnlibs
d as a company or o
project de
efault. Typic andard MicroStation sttyles 0 – 7 sshould be used for
cally only sta
BIM mode els. Any add ditional custtom linestyles shall nott be used w
without clariffication
in the Projject BIM Exxecution Pla an as these will be requuired by all project
participan
nts.

9.8 H
Hatching
g and Fillled Reg
gions
• Where e possible, patterns an nd fill should d using the relevant Pa
d be created art
definittion, rather than create
ed as 2D ha atching/patte
erning.

• Care shall be tak

ken to ensurre that the priority
p and transparenncy settings of filled
shapees are appro he situation so as not to cover reqquired graph
opriate to th hical
inform
mation.

• Transsparency annd graded fi lls shall be avoided in normal circcumstances to

h rasterised printing.
avoid issues with

9.9 V
View Tem
mplates
For consisstency of ap
ppearance aand to standardise working methoods across all
projects, pre-defined
p Dynamic VView and Drrawing Model seeds shhall be provided in
the Centraal BIM Resoource Libra ry. Where these are no
ot suitable:

• A projject-specific
c DrawingS eed.dgnlib shall be cre
eated and sstored in the
e Project
BIM Resources
R Library.
L MS__DRAWING GSEEDLIBL LIST shouldd then be eddited in
the re
elevant PCF F to locate th
his file.

• Where e critical to the consisttent appearaance of output, Saved Views crea ated
prior to
t view seed d modificatiions must have
h view atttributes re--applied or be
recreaated comple etely in orde
er to display
y changes.

9.10 Dimenssioning
9.11 Drawing
g Borderrs and T
Title Bloc
cks
• Title blocks
b are available
a fro
om the ‘Cells’ folder of the central Workspace
e.
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• Altern
native client-specific ve
ersions may
y also be available from
m the same
locatio
on.

• Projecct-specific borders
b andd title blocks
s shall be crreated and stored in th
he
Projecct BIM Reso ources libra
ary.

9.12 Symbology
9.12.1 Section an
nd Detail Marks
M

Section annd Detail marks

m shall b
be accessed d from withiin the Detaiiling Symbo
ol Styles
dgnlib of Bentley
B Building’s defaault dataset,, the compa
any Worksppace or the Project
BIM Reso ources Libra
ary.

9.13 Copyrig
ght

10 Reso
ources
s
10.1 Introducction
10.2 Softwarre
10.3 BIM Content / Resourc
R ce Librarries
• Bentleey Building supplied da atasets are available th
hrough the C Central Ressource
Librarry / Workspaace as read d-only. Any elements frrom this librrary which require
r
modiffication prior to utilisatio
on shall be copied to th
he Project RResource Library.

10.3.1 Project BIM

M Resourc
ce Library

This shall be the repo he storage of project specific stanndards wherre

ository for th
deviation from this sttandard is reequired due
e to project or client reqquirements.

• Standdards, seeds
s, title blockks, parts, da
atagroup ca
atalogs and other data
produ
uced in the process
p of ccompleting the project shall be heeld within the
e
ource Libra ry (refer to Appendix 11.2).
Projecct BIM Reso

10.3.2 Central BIM Resourc

ce Library

10.4 Keynote
es
• A defa
ault Keynote file is provvided with Bentley
B Building and caan be found
d in the
BuildingDatasets
s ‘keynote’ ffolder withinn the Works
space.

• Referr to NBS Building for U K-specific keynotes.

k

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10.5 Custom
m metada
ata
• The corporate
c DaataGroup D Definitions files are held
d in the DataaGroupSys
stem
folderr within the central
c reso
ource.

• When n the creatioon of projecct-specific caatalog items

s requires thhe creation of
custom defintions s, a file sha
all be create e project’s rresource folder.
ed within the
This iss especially
y important in the case of list type definitions,, otherwise Bentley
Building will attem
mpt to creatte them in the
t central dataset’s
d ennumlookups s file.

Once this conten

nt is approve
ed for the corporate
c lib
brary, the asssociated .x
xml files
can be added to the central dataset.

10.6 Keyboa
ard Shorttcuts
Only delivvered Bentle
ey keyboard
d shortcuts shall be used.

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11 Appe
endice
es
11.1 Model File
F Namming Cod
des
11.2 Project Folder Structure
S e
The folderrs below are
e a suggestted structurre for the Prroject BIM R
Resources Library
L
relevant to
o ABD-base ed projects..

ovided as an example only and sh

This is pro hould not bee used in prreference too or
replace anny internal company
c quuality assurred standard
d folder struuctures. Alw
ways
consider your
y compa any processses and proc cedures, es
specially if I SO accreditation is
involved before
b adoppting changee.

Only use the

t folders that will con m data. Do not leave eempty folderrs in
ntain custom
your Com
mponent Librrary.

ant configurration varia bles are shown in brac

The releva ckets.

- Resource [Project BIIM Resourc

06-R ces Library
y]
- Bentley
+ Cell
C (ATFDIR_CEELL)
+ CPart
C (TFDIR_CPAART)
+ Data
D (STRUCTURAAL_SHAPES) F
For section siz
zes only
+ DatagroupC
D atalogs (DG_CATALOOGS_PATH)
+ DataGroupL
D Layouts (DG_SCHEDUULE_LAYOUT_
_PATH)
+ DataGroupS
D System (DG_PATH)
+ Dgnlib
D (MS_DGNLIBBLIST, BB_F
FLOORMASTER R_DGN,
BB_LEVEL_D
DGNLIBLIST)
- Frame
F (ATFDIR_FR
RAME)
+ Caseework
+ Doorrs
+ Shelvving
+ Componentts
StairC
+ Winddows
- Materials
M (MS_MATERI
IAL)
- Part
P (ATFDIR_PA
ART)
- Rules
R (ATFFILE_D
DRAWINGRULE
ES,
STFFILE_MO
ODELSTYLES,
,
STFFILE_DR
RAWINGRULES
S)
- Seed
S (MS_DESIGN
NSEED, TFBX
XS_SEEDDIR)
- Setting
S (TFANNOTAT
TION_OVERRI
IDES)

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