Bentley Systems announced the immediate availability of Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 4). Based on MicroStation, Bentley’s information modeling environment, it provides a uniquely powerful toolset for processing and integrating point clouds and scalable terrain models, as fundamental data types, persistently throughout architectural, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) workflows.
The point-cloud processing capabilities of Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 4) enable infrastructure professionals to enrich, enhance, and interpret point clouds for “downstream” workflows – increasing the comprehension, usability, and value of point clouds across the infrastructure lifecycle.
Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 4) can further purpose point clouds pre-processed in Bentley Pointools V8i, and as a layered application, it uniquely empowers design-time visualization within Bentley’s civil applications, such as InRoads V8i, using OpenRoads technology, and within OpenPlant V8i and AECOsim Building Designer V8i.
With ProjectWise Point-cloud Services, point clouds processed and geo-coordinated with Bentley Descartes V8i, rather than being limited to “survey” usefulness, become persistent point clouds managed and streamed for advantageous reuse across collaborative AECO and asset management workflows.
Bentley is committed to making the handling and processing of point clouds seamless, flexible, and as productive as possible. Its cohesive approach has established point clouds as a fundamental data type across its portfolio, enabling Bentley to bring point-cloud benefits to its users comprehensively – for practical scalability from the desktop to the server and the field.
New offerings recently delivered include Bentley Pointools V8i and the Pointools View no-charge iWare app for point-cloud viewing. The point-cloud clash detection and point-cloud differencing that are already available in Bentley Pointools V8i will soon be incorporated into SELECTseries releases of MicroStation V8i, Bentley Navigator V8i, and Bentley Descartes V8i.