topic Re: Virtual Building Explorer in BIMx

Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:13:26 GMT

Any easy way to deal with fact that Virtual Building Explorer files to send to client are executable files (.exe) and get hung up on internal anti-virus, internet anti-virus and scanning, client's anti-virus, etc. Have tried zip files, changing extension to something other than .exe with instructions to rename, etc.

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:33:19 GMT

It may not be possible to get around the email restrictions.

Use FTP or another file transfer service like YouSendIt. Some companies block the file transfer services so FTP or the company's own service may be necessary.

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:08:33 GMT

Agree with Matthew... dropbox.com is another place that is easy to use for file sharing and more...

The VBE files (exe/app/zip) can be pretty huge - many people might not be happy receiving such a large file attached to an email anyway, even if your and their ISP allow attachments that large.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:45:06 GMT

Thanks - found YouSendIt helpful, Rapidshare, and Megaupload as other possible vehicles. Waiting now for the calls from client end to see what happens when they have an .exe appear on their radar.

Is it possible to host an .exe file remotely that can be accessed by client via link that would not initiate standard anti-virus response?

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:15:18 GMT

Tom wrote:
Is it possible to host an .exe file remotely that can be accessed by client via link that would not initiate standard anti-virus response?

I doubt it. It's not the copying of the executable that is potentially dangerous (in the case of malware) it's the running of the program.

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

JaredBanks — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:55:19 GMT

For VBE files under 50mb I've just used my personal hotmail account. I can upload the file and then send a link for the client to download it. I'm not crazy about mixing personal and business e-mails, but it works.

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:11:18 GMT

For large files I've just started using We Transfer and so far it seems rock solid and it's got some extremely funky artworks going on as the backgrounds!
http://www.wetransfer.com

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

vfrontiers — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:12:55 GMT

Hmmm... no one's mentioned iDisk... Love it... and coupled with iWeb, I have been setting up BLOGs (private, password protected) where each update of the file sends an automatic RSS notification to the team..

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:55:56 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
Hmmm... no one's mentioned iDisk... Love it... and coupled with iWeb, I have been setting up BLOGs (private, password protected) where each update of the file sends an automatic RSS notification to the team..

I've been using iDisk for file transfer but hadn't thought of the project blog. Good idea. Thanks.

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

MMontgomery — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:31:50 GMT

I use dropbox as well, and find it perfect for just this sort of thing. Up to 10Gb free storage.

It works just like any folder on your PC (not sure how it works on Mac).

Drag the file into the dropbox public folder, right click it to get an internet link, then email the client the link.

Pretty simple really. Plus you then have access to that file from any internet connection.

If you want to try it, here's a shameless link you can use to give us each an extra 250MB of storage

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:01:51 GMT

MMontgomery wrote:
I use dropbox as well, and find it perfect for just this sort of thing. Up to 10Gb free storage.

It works just like any folder on your PC (not sure how it works on Mac).

Drag the file into the dropbox public folder, right click it to get an internet link, then email the client the link.

Pretty simple really. Plus you then have access to that file from any internet connection.

If you want to try it, here's a shameless link you can use to give us each an extra 250MB of storage

We used this at a conference in Copenhagen last year and it worked a charm. We had Macs and PCs all sharing files easily. Quite nice really. Thanks for reminding me. I'll have to find another opportunity to try it out.

Re: Virtual Building Explorer

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:24:04 GMT

Karl wrote:
Agree with Matthew... dropbox.com is another place that is easy to use for file sharing and more...

The VBE files (exe/app/zip) can be pretty huge - many people might not be happy receiving such a large file attached to an email anyway, even if your and their ISP allow attachments that large.

Cheers,
Karl

Karl, I can't believe I have never heard of dropbox..... thanks that's extremely helpful. Clicked the download straight away !