BEXEL Manager – August 2025

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Version: 25.8.0

CDE Publisher

The comparison of two versions of a CDE project has been enabled via the BEXEL CDE portal. The version compare functionality is described in more detail within the CDE release notes. Comparison can only be performed if at least two versions of the project have been published from BM version 25.8.0.0 or later.
Schedule Columns: Parent Task Level 1/2/3/… and IsCritical have been set to always be published when publishing a model to CDE.
The publishing and display of Task Activities in CDE has been enabled, accessible within the Gantt chart.
An issue that caused certain percentages within IDS Check analyses in CDE to display incorrectly has been fixed.
The loading speed of the CDE project list within the BEXEL CDE ribbon tab has been improved, as it occasionally slowed down project loading in BEXEL Manager.

Cost

On-demand refreshing of the Cost Estimate has been enabled. After this change, the Update Cost Estimate must be triggered manually after editing a Property or a Cost classification.
A prompt has been added during schedule updates, asking whether the Cost version should also be updated. The purpose of this prompt is to remind users to update the Cost version when updating the schedule, since Cost version updating is now on-demand. It is important to update the Cost version before updating the schedule to avoid incorrect creation of activities at the Schedule level.
A setting has been introduced at the Cost Version level to define whether Fixed Cost and Fixed Quantity should be retained during AutoAssign. By default, this option is checked, preserving the behavior from previous versions.
An issue has been fixed where CostAssignments Supplement could not be edited if two assignments with different Supplement Unit Cost values were selected.
An issue has been fixed where using AutoAssign to Selected Elements or Add Assignment options resulted in multiple Assignments with different unit costs.

Methodology

The option to select elements based on selected Methodology Items has been enabled. The option performs selection according to the active Cost version and is activated via the context menu in the Methodology Editor window (Selection → Select Elements or Add To Selection).

Progress/Schedule

The algorithm for scaling parent tasks has been improved to provide more accurate results. Scaling of relation lags (different from 0) has been excluded.
Saving selected Gantt columns at the individual schedule level has been enabled.
The creation of new Custom Gantt columns/Task properties by importing from Excel has been enabled (Schedule Editor → Import → From Excel…).
Two parallel Viewers have been introduced in BEXEL Manager, allowing Planned vs Actual visualizations.
– A new Viewer named Baseline Schedule has been introduced. The Schedule Animation window now includes the option Animate Baseline. To view Planned vs Actual animation, the currently selected Schedule in the Schedule Editor must have a defined Baseline Schedule. Both the Schedule and Baseline Schedule Viewers must be manually arranged to display simultaneously.
– Tip: Depending on the calendar, it may be necessary to uncheck the Skip non-working intervals option in the Schedule Animation settings to ensure synchronized animation dates.
Export of Gantt charts to PDF has been improved. The exported PDF (with default settings) is now properly formatted. Options have been added to control whether task relations are shown and to configure the timeline export format (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).
Import of task relations from Excel has been enabled. For this process, the previously exported Excel file should be used, and it has to contain either the “Successor Row Index” or “Predecessor Row Index” column.
Import of progress from CDE has been enabled based on Takt Planning data entered at the element level (BEXEL CDE → Import → Import Progress from CDE).
Export of schedules to Primavera P6 has been enhanced so that WBS tasks are sorted in the same way as in BEXEL Manager (Schedule Editor -> Export -> Export To Primavera P6). Sorting by custom properties included as well.
Import of schedules from the latest versions of Primavera P6 has been supported.
The issue that caused significant extensions of task Finish Dates after entering progress has been resolved. This occurred when a task had a Must Start On constraint later than the progress entry start date, and the task was not 100% completed.
The issue that in some cases prevented Select Completed Elements from selecting finished elements has been resolved.
The issue that caused Code and Name of resources to be exported concatenated twice into Primavera has been resolved.
The issue that in some cases caused incorrect task dates in PDFs exported from BEXEL Manager has been resolved.
Milestone tasks were incorrectly displayed as duration tasks in PDFs exported from BEXEL Manager. This has been corrected.
The Elapsed Days lag type from MS Project was incorrectly imported as Hours in BEXEL Manager. This has been corrected to import as Days.
An unnecessary Start No Earlier Than constraint was being created when exporting schedules to MS Project. This behavior has been corrected.

Update

The issue that caused changes in element categories during model updates has been resolved. This fix will be applied only to newly created projects.
The issue related to model positioning during project creation and updates has been resolved. The problem occurred when not all elements in the IFC file were positioned relative to the IFCSite. (This case was invalid and appeared only in faulty IFC files.)

Properties

Search/Filter functionality has been enabled in the Property Values window (View values of property).

Selection Sets

The option to delay refreshing of smart Selection Sets has been enabled to improve performance on large models.
– When automatic refreshing is disabled, smart Selection Sets will not refresh upon Add/Edit/Delete of element properties, whether through the UI or Excel import.
– Refreshing can be triggered manually by clicking Update All or Update Selected (refreshing only selected Selection Sets and their children) from either the toolbar or the context menu.
– Dependent sections such as QTO, CBS, etc. will only be updated after using Update All or Update Selected.
– Automatic refreshing will still occur for the following actions: deleting elements, modifying or deleting floors, buildings, or families.
By default, automatic refreshing is disabled for both new and existing projects. It can be re-enabled in the Selection Set window under Settings.

User Interface

General update and addition of translations for all languages.