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BEXEL Manager – February 2025

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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.
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