What’s new in Version 25 & BEXEL CDE?

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BEXEL Manager

Version: 25.0

BEXEL CDE Publisher

Faster publishing and model conversion with reduced RAM usage when viewing the model in CDE, thanks to optimization of the properties publishing done independently from the model structure starting from BEXEL Manager 25.

Improved user interface for displaying model properties introduces new options such as grouping, sorting, and displaying units.
Clash Detection results from BEXEL Manager can be published to BEXEL CDE. Within the publishing wizard, users can select which Clash Jobs to send to CDE.

When publishing to CDE, the statuses and priorities of clash pairs and groups from BEXEL Manager are assigned as follows:
- Statuses: New, Active, Not Clash, Solved.
- Priorities: High, Medium, Undefined, Low.
- All custom values added in BEXEL Manager are transferred to CDE as priorities.
Clash Jobs can only be published when creating a new version of a CDE project. When re-publishing a Clash Job to a new CDE project version, if a group or clash pair was marked as ‘Not Clash’ in the previous version, its status will not be updated to the one coming from BEXEL Manager. In all other cases, the status will be updated.

On the CDE portal, users can group clashes, edit or rename groups, change statuses, and adjust priorities for both groups and individual clash pairs.
Publishing of empty IDS Check results is now disabled when publishing models to CDE.
Fixed a bug that caused the currency to always be set to USD when publishing a new version of a project to BEXEL CDE. Now, the currency is set exclusively via the CDE portal (Edit Project -> Currency), and the value from BEX is no longer sent.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Automatic Quantity from being calculated at the element level when publishing cost data to BEXEL CDE. On the CDE side, this caused those values to be invalid on the CDE portal when filtering the cost structure by element selection.

Cost

Added a ‘Calculated Working Hours’ column within the Cost Estimate window. Like other columns, this column can be exported to Excel, used in Power BI reports that include cost data, and published to BEXEL CDE.
Fixed an issue that prevented Supplement Costs on non-BIM cost items from being considered when importing a Cost Estimate from an Excel file.
Enabled filtering by columns within the Cost Estimate window. This option is available for both system columns and custom/user-defined columns. The column filter is activated by clicking the funnel icon in each column header and selecting the appropriate values to filter by.
Enabled automatic calculation of the Remaining Cost on parent tasks (with schedule grouping activated) when opening old projects.

Exchange

Improved stability of exchange process by enabling better matching of elements IDs (GUIDs). This affects the exchange of Selection Sets and the Navisworks Exchange add-in.

Geometry

Fixed issues causing incorrect mutual positioning of elements from different sources and affecting the quality of displayed geometry in some cases, most often occurring when geometry from one or more sources was extremely distant (over 7,000 km).
Fixed an issue where split elements were positioned on different location from the original elements after cutting due to a double geometry transformation.

Mesh Optimizer

Enabled geometry optimization when updating an existing project. The option is available in the project update form (BEXEL logo → Projects and Versions → select the existing project version → Update or Update and Open) and applies only to elements from the model that are being updated. More details about geometry optimization can be found in the user manual at this link.
Fixed an issue where the geometry optimization configuration file remained selected when creating two projects in a row without restarting the BEXEL Manager application, even though the user did not reselect it.

Mesh Splitter

New types of geometry splitting are added: according to grid lines, IfcAlignment lines (for IFC 4×3 models only), radial splitting, as well as according to angled planes rotated around Z-axis (vertical axis).

For all these new and old splitting types, the level of settings within the configuration file has been increased. Now, it is possible to filter elements to be splitted at the Family or individual element level (according to element unique id – Guid) as well as previously available filtering on Category level.

Additionally, the stability, quality and speed of cutting have been increased.

More details about geometry splitting can be found in the user manual at this link.
The geometry splitting process has been improved to retain the original element in the model as an element without geometry. All existing properties remain on the original element, and a relation is created between the original and newly created elements. Additionally, splitting-related properties are added to both the original and cutting elements.
Enabled geometry splitting when updating a project. Similar to geometry optimization, this option is available in the project update form (BEXEL logo → Projects and Versions → select the existing project version → Update or Update and Open) and applies only to elements that are being updated. More details about geometry splitting can be found in the user manual at this link.
Enabled the option to visualize splitting planes within the viewer (Ribbon → View → Splitting Planes). To use this option, the user must select the desired splitting configuration file. The selected config file does not necessarily have to be the same one previously used for the geometry splitting, allowing this option to also serve as a preview of the splitting. All types of splitting can be visualized, except for those by IfcAlignment, by Grid, or by Storey.

IFC

Added support for loading IFC4x3 files, including the ability to load and display new entity types, such as IfcAlignment curves, introduced in this version of the standard.
Fixed an issue with reading colors of the elements created from IfcMappedItem.

Knowledge Base

Added new templates and updated existing ones for geometry splitting. These will be automatically available upon the first launch of BEXEL Manager 25.

Power BI

Fixed an issue that caused the export of quantity data to be done at the group level instead of the element level when exporting Power BI reports that include cost data (Model Explorer with Cost, 5D Estimation, Cost Comparison, and Connect Data → With 5D Estimation).
Fixed an issue that caused crash when no actual schedule was selected (schedule where progress being entered and a baseline schedule defined) during the export of a Schedule Delay Analysis Power BI report.
Introduced the ability to adjust whether BEXEL Viewer is maximized by default in the published Power BI template.

Property Checker

The initial loading time of the Property Checker window has been reduced.
Fixed an issue where the number of Checked and Passed elements differed in some cases after re-evaluation of the same project.

Revit

The BEXEL Manager Revit Publisher add-in for Revit 2025 has been introduced and can be downloaded from this link.

Support for BEXEL Manager Revit Publisher and BEXEL Manager Properties Importer for Revit versions older than 2020 is no longer available.

Add-ins for older Revit versions can still be downloaded from our website, but no further updates or new features will be provided for those versions.

Schedule

Introduced the ability to enter task relation lag via text input in the ‘Predecessor Row Index’ and ‘Successor Row Index’ fields within the Gantt table. Examples: 5FS + 9h, 9FS + 50%, 5FS 9h, 5SF – 10h.

Additionally, it is now possible to create ‘StartFinish’ and ‘FinishFinish’ relations with parent tasks.
Introduced a setting for defining the unit in which task duration is entered or displayed (Schedule → Schedule Settings → Time → Task Duration Unit). This setting applies at the application-wide level.
Enabled the option to export and display “Compare With” tasks from Gantt when exporting to PDF (Schedule Editor window → Export → Export to PDF (Gantt)).
Added new columns ‘Actual Duration,’ ‘Remaining Duration,’ ‘Duration % Complete’, and ‘Remaining Cost’ within the Gantt table and renamed the ‘Cost Completion Percentage’ column to ‘Cost % Complete’.
Introduced the option to select elements from the context menu within the Activities tab in the Task Editor (Schedule Editor window → Select task → Task Editor → Activities → Right-click on any activity → Select Elements).
When manually linking tasks and elements within the Task Link Rules Editor window, the Filtered Link is now always set to the default value. Additionally, the entire Task Link Rules Editor window has been improved.
The regular update of libraries used for export and import schedules from MS Project and Primavera.
Fixed an issue where an existing relationship was deleted when attempting to create a circular dependency or an ‘Start Finish’/’Finish Finish’ relationship on parent tasks.
Fixed an issue caused that .XER file import failed when attempting to update a base schedule using import.
Fixed an issue that caused irregular activity states on tasks when using the ‘Remove Selected Elements’ option from the context menu in Gantt and when excluding link rules for cost items.
Fixed an issue that, in some rare cases, caused schedules to be lost after updating a project using IFC files.
Fixed an issue that caused task dates to be incorrect when exporting a schedule with entered progress to MS Project.
Fixed an issue that caused schedules to be lost when importing a XER file into a baseline created from an MPP file.

Please note that importing both from MS Project and Primavera into a single schedule is not a recommended workflow due to their fundamentally different scheduling engines.
Fixed an issue where task relationships that do not exist in MS Project were not deleted when importing from MS Project (both MPP and XML formats) into an existing schedule in BEXEL Manager.
Fixed incorrect log messages when importing a schedule from Primavera.

Unreal

A new and improved version of the add-in for exporting construction visualization to Unreal (version 5.4.4.1) from BEXEL Manager is available at this link.

General

General update and addition of translations for all languages.
Introduced an option to copy GUIDs (Unique IDs) of selected elements to the clipboard (Ribbon → Selection → Selection → Copy GUIDs).
Added new units, “Short Ton” and “Long Ton,” within the mass unit category for the Imperial system (Ribbon → Settings → Units → Imperial → Mass).

Addins

The add-in system in BEXEL Manager 25 has been upgraded, and all custom/user add-ins must be updated to .NET Framework version 4.8 before use in the new version. Previously installed add-ins for BEXEL Manager 24 will not be automatically transferred to the latest version.

Upon launching the new version for the first time, you will be prompted to download pre-installed add-ins, including Data Enrichment, Property Checker, Property Consistency Resolver/Property Manager, and BEXEL Portfolio Manager Publisher.

If you encounter any issues or need assistance, please contact our support team.

BEXEL CDE

Released: April 2025

BCF

The option for partial saving of viewpoint components is now supported when creating a BCF Issue within the BEXEL CDE portal. Users can now precisely choose which components to save along with the viewpoint – besides the camera position, it is possible to individually include the selection of elements, their colors, and/or visibility. These options are available under the Viewpoint Types section.
When later applying a BCF Issue that contains a partially saved viewpoint, changes in the scene will only affect the components that were originally saved. This allows for selective scene updates without altering other parameters that were not explicitly saved.
An option to edit multiple selected BCF Issues at once has been added. This feature is available if all selected BCF Issues are of the same type and if you have edit permissions for each of them. During the editing process, only the fields explicitly modified by the user will be updated, ensuring that all other data remains unchanged.
Now it is possible to export selected BCF Issues to a BCF file. The exported file is fully compliant with the BCF standard and can be used as an exchange format with third-party software that does not have a direct integration with BEXEL, i.e., where a client for BEXEL BCF.Server is not implemented yet.
A new option has been added to export multiple selected or filtered BCF Issues at once into a PDF in a tabular format.
When uploading an Excel template, you now need to specify whether the template is intended for a Single or Multiple report, depending on the desired output format. [SINGLE TEMPLATE EXAMPLE] [MULTIPLE TEMPLATE EXAMPLE]
Additionally, as part of this update, an option has been added to choose the export format – either PDF or Excel.
When selecting a template from the dropdown menu (by clicking the arrow next to the Report button on the main screen), the report is exported to PDF by default. However, by clicking directly on the Report button, a new window opens, allowing you to select both the desired report template and the preferred export format.
A new feature has been added to display the list of linked documents within BCF reports.
For Single-type reports, the list of documents can be added in two ways:
1. List of file names in multiple lines within a single cell, using the tag {DOCUMENT_LIST}.
2. Table format, with selectable columns/information. Depending on the tags added in the first row of the table, the following information can be displayed:
{DOCUMENT_FILENAME} – file name
{DOCUMENT_SIZE} – file size (in KB, MB, or GB depending on the actual size)
{DOCUMENT_AUTHOR_NAME} – full name of the user who last uploaded the specific version linked to the BCF Issue
{DOCUMENT_DATE_MODIFIED} – date of last modification
{DOCUMENT_CURRENT_VERSION} – version number of the document currently linked to the BCF Issue
{DOCUMENT_LATEST_VERSION} – latest version number / total number of versions
For Multiple-type reports, the list of documents can be added as:
1. List of file names for each individual Issue, in multiple lines within a single cell, using the {DOCUMENT_LIST} tag.

A new BCF Issue type named Approval has been introduced.
It is designed to follow the same approval workflow as Document Approval, but with a key difference: documents are optional. They can be added or removed at any point during the approval process.
If documents are linked to an Approval issue, changing the approval status does not affect the status of the documents (unlike in Document Approval), and there is no file copying process upon approval.

A new BCF Issue type – RFI (Request for Information) – has been added. The new type can be selected from the Type dropdown menu when creating a BCF Issue (+ → New Issue → Type: RFI).
Significant performance improvements have been made to the loading of the BCF Manager window.
When creating a new issue, only elements that are fully visible are now saved. Elements displayed in x-ray or wireframe mode are no longer included.
In addition to Creator and Assigned To, users listed as First Reviewers and Final Reviewers can now edit the Description and other custom fields in BCF Issues.
Fixed an issue where users who are not Creators or Project Administrators were able to close a BCF issue in certain cases.
Resolved an issue where the status of a BCF Document Approval could be changed twice in a row when triggered from two open tabs.
Resolved an issue where the full text within the Description field was not visible for users without editing permissions.
Fixed an issue where a Project Administrator could not edit a BCF Issue if they were added only as a Participant.
Removed the misleading text from Linked Documents window stating that no linked documents were present, even when documents were correctly linked.
Fixed an issue where report generation was not working on certain projects.
Fixed an issue where creating a Document Approval from the Documents window was not working in certain cases.

CDE

Loading times for certain pages and modules have been improved, enhancing the overall user experience when working in BEXEL CDE.
User interface across all pages and modules has been refined to use smaller text, buttons, tables, and other elements for a more compact layout.
Resolved an issue where deleting a project could cause the application to crash in certain scenarios.

Clash Detection

Advanced grouping options for Clash Pairs are now available. After selecting multiple ungrouped Clash Pairs, right-click to open the context menu and select Create Multiple Groups → Left or Right.
Limitation: If all selected pairs have different elements on the left or right side, no grouping will be applied to avoid creating groups with only one pair.
New options have been added for selecting elements involved in clashes. After selecting one or more Clash Groups or Clash Pairs, right-click to open the context menu and choose from:
Select Elements → All Elements, Right Elements, or Left Elements.
Additionally, a Select All Clashes option has been introduced to select all Clash Pairs within the current Clash Job. All selection options are also available in the Select section of the toolbar.
Filtering of Clash Jobs and Clash Pairs by any column is now enabled. Filtering can be done by clicking the filter icon in the header of any column.
Added the ability to delete one or more selected clash jobs from the Clash Detection table. The Delete button is located in the toolbar, next to the Search option.
Fixed an issue where vertical scrolling in the Clash Jobs table did not function correctly in certain situations.

Properties

It is now possible to add, edit, and delete element properties directly through the CDE portal. All newly added properties are visually highlighted in blue and have the column value ‘Created on CDE’ set to True, making them easily distinguishable from properties published from BEXEL Manager

Properties added through the CDE portal are automatically carried over to the next version of the project. In cases where a newly published version from BEXEL Manager contains a property on the same element with identical name, type, and property set (PSet), the BEXEL Manager property will overwrite the one created in the CDE portal. As a result, the value from BEXEL Manager will be used in the new version.

Any project participant can add new properties via the CDE portal. Regular users can modify or delete only those element properties created through the portal, while properties published from BEXEL Manager remain locked for editing. Project administrators have full access and can edit or delete all element properties regardless of origin.

Several enhancements have been made to the Properties module, including:

Filtering: The ability to filter values in any column within the Properties window has been enabled. The applied filter is retained even after changing the element selection.
Clipboard Copy Options: New options for copying property values to the clipboard have been added to the Properties context menu:
– Copy to Clipboard – Copies both the Name and Value of the selected property. This option is optimized for use in Excel and text documents. When pasted into Excel, the Name is placed in one cell, while the Value is inserted into the adjacent cell.
– Copy Value To – Copies only the Value of the selected property, excluding its Name.
Color Indicators: A colored square is now displayed for properties that represent a specific color value, both in the Properties window and the View Property Values form.
Expand/Collapse Options: Collapse All and Expand All options have been added to the Properties window for better navigation.
New Column in View Property Values: The Elements column has been added to the View Property Values form. This column shows the number of elements that share a specific value. Additionally, values can now be sorted by this column in both ascending and descending order.
Icons have been added to the Properties context menu for better visual identification and improved user experience.
Optimized the loading of properties, resulting in significantly faster display times, even for larger projects.
Additionally, the ‘View Property Values’ form and the ‘QTO/CBS Creation’ form now load much faster.
The display of empty (undefined) property values and the ability to select elements with such values within the Properties window have been enabled (the Select By Property Value and View Property Values options).
An issue with the validation of access rights when working with properties on the CDE has been resolved. In certain cases, an error was displayed even though the user had the necessary rights to view specific properties.
An issue causing the same QTO/CBS to be recreated after selecting elements following its initial creation has been resolved.
Resolved an issue where the context menu for properties remained visible even after the element selection was changed.

Selection Sets

The Selection Sets window has been redesigned and improved, and is now placed as a dedicated tab within the CDE user interface. If the tab is not visible by default, it can be accessed by clicking the Selection Sets button located in the header.
Search and filtering capabilities have been added to improve navigation and usability. There are two available search methods:

– Typing text into the Search field in the toolbar.
– Selecting one or more values from the column filters (such as Name or Elements).

Viewer

The enhanced version of the converter has significantly accelerated the model conversion process and reduced waiting times, whether models are uploaded from BEXEL Manager or directly via CDE. Additionally, the Viewer module has been optimized, resulting in a several-fold increase in loading speed and a much smoother overall user experience when working with models.
Fixed an issue where the Recent projects list failed to update after deleting individual project versions, causing a crash when loading the Home page.
The user interface within the BEXEL Viewer window has been redesigned to provide a more comfortable and efficient experience when working on high-resolution screens.