Hello there,
Please excuse me if something below may sound like a rant, it is.
I am a long time user of MX looking to switch to ORD. The biggest hurdle for me is creating a Configuration from scratch. I have started, done some of it, but the "intelligence" of the software relies on the feature definitions and the "Configuration" itself. Without a proper Configuration this software is as useful as microstation in a sea of AutoCAD and C3D. Not all the relations between the feature definitions, annotations, feature symbologies, element templates, item types, etc are obvious, nor very well documented, as a bonus they change quite often.
Is there something like an UK Configuration for ORD?
I mean something more polished than last year, compliant with IAN184/16 and Uniclass 2015, the last one I had access to was "ordd10050030en_gb.msi". That was half baked and Uniclass in all it's glory was dumped in 1000s of levels and element templates.
I am looking at something more like the AU/NZ Configuration. I do understand that HE does not want to involve themselves in such a matter (not the best policy if you want everything BIM compliant), but when people start getting creative, like they did with MX, you end up having everyone "migrated" to C3D.
And if such thing exists, can it be distributed via zip file rather than msi? When refreshing it, requests admin privileges and we must answer too many questions, often to people who have no idea of what we're talking about, half a world apart, bored to death by anything that's not Windows, Office, pdf or sometimes PW, waste of time and energy.
Can Bentley, please, move the Configurations/Country Kits in an area where we can download them without Select? Like in the Communities or a section of the Learn server? We're not downloading software that can cause licensing issues, we're downloading content.
Some of us are forced to switch to C3D and struggle to show a viable alternative, can Bentley help us in our endeavour?
Thank you in advance for help and understanding.
Regards,
Val.