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Bentley is gearing up their 3D modeling capabilities and workflows to tackle the needs of city-scale geographies. The emphasis here is on model creation as well as on 3D analysis and simulation for better city management. There are a number of sessions on 3D City workflows using Bentley products at the upcoming Be Together: The [...]
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Today Bentley announced the acquisition of Enterprise Informatics, Incorporated (www.enterpriseinformatics.com) and Exor Corporation (www.exorcorp.com), two key providers of infrastructure asset management software. The eB Insight software provides configuration and change management capabilities for mission-critical infrastructure asset operations for the energy, nuclear, rail, and government sectors. Exor information modeling software provides for the management and operations [...]
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Bentley is rolling out a new format called i-model that they’re touting as a container for open information exchange. The format is essentially a DGN but with new concepts to support the workflows of integrated project delivery where multiple disciplines need access to shared information beyond simply the exchange of an individual model or file. [...]
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Bentley today announced a partnership with Pointools to include their Vortex Engine API into the Bentley platform. This integration will allow users to reference and manage point cloud data within MicroStation for better project management, and marks Bentley as the first CAD vendor to incorporate point clouds as an integrated data type and to manage [...]
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Bentley has been exploring the impact and application of 3D City GIS for some time, and they’ve been thinking along the sustainability lines for a while now as well. The design technology for 3D city models have now come together with the concept of sustainability in a new white paper titled, “3D City GIS – [...]
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Bentley launched a new pen-based solution called ProjectWise Dynamic Plot today, with the concession that paper is a ‘near-perfect’ mobile media. Despite assumptions to the contrary, more paper is generated as access to computers and printers become more ubiquitous, and much of this is due to the portability and ease of using pens on paper [...]
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Bentley has decided to morph the 2009 Be Conference into a six-month online seminar series called Be Connected, citing travel restrictions and other economic pressures. In addition, a good portion of the attendance at this event is State Departments of Transportation, and that’s a community that is particularly busy right now coordinating spending from the [...]
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Bentley today announced the creation of the Building Performance Group that will focus on software development to help create better performing and more sustainable buildings. The new group brings together product expertise from two recently acquired companies — Hevacomp (software for building system design and analysis) and Tas Software (energy analysis and simulation). The creation [...]
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Autodesk and Bentley held a joint press conference today to announce an agreement that will expand interoperability between their various products. The plan calls for a sharing of software libraries so that each will have the ability to read and write respective DWG and DGN formats. The companies also plan to facilitate better workflows through [...]
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The Bentley Geospatial Server solves a problem in the market of too much information to deal with. If data isn’t managed properly, you’re at risk of poor decisions with your data. The Geospatial Server brings together both structured information (shape files, dgn, dfx, etc.) and unstructured data (Word files, Excel, etc…). The Gartner Group indicates [...]
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