Bentley Ships MicroStation V8i SELECTseries 1

Includes RealDWG and 3D printing support

Founder and CTO Keith Bentley commented, “Our new V8i (SELECTseries 1) offerings underscore our commitment to provide users with a recurring stream of enhancements. These include 3D printing support and audit tools, the ability to animate using our Luxology rendering engine, and Autodesk’s RealDWG libraries.”

By delivering Autodesk’s RealDWG software within MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 1) and other Bentley products, Bentley provides its users the highest level of fidelity when reading or writing DWG formats including 2009. At the same time, Bentley fulfills the commitment it made in July of 2008, through its interoperability agreement with Autodesk, to improve architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) workflows by:

• Enabling broader reuse of information generated during the design, construction, and operation of buildings and infrastructure, and
• Enhancing the ability of project teams to choose among multiple software sources.

Further interoperability enhancements featured in MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 1) include object enabler support to display data from Autodesk’s ARX applications, and new reference file support for ESRI SHP, as well as MIF, MID, and TAB file formats. In addition, MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 1) is able to produce i-models – the new “containers” for open infrastructure information exchange – and to aggregate comments registered against them in dynamic collaboration workflows. These capabilities will lead to expanded information reuse, improved process and workflow efficiency, and increased project quality.

MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 1) also extends existing core capabilities introduced in V8i including:

• Intrinsic geo-coordination (to synchronize and coordinate true and projected coordinate systems, so that all infrastructure designs are referenced and may be managed geographically) is further facilitated with the addition of ESRI SHP file referencing, and geospatial PDF is now supported, empowering users to leverage geo-intelligence and enrich project deliverables.
• Interactive dynamic views (which slices and filters 3D models) is extended and optimized to streamline the drawing production process by providing automated drawing composition.
• Intuitive design modeling (facilitated with tools that are easier to use and provide better feedback) has been enhanced by introducing explicit support for 3D printing, to automate creation of physical prototypes. Importantly, 3D-audit tools enable the designer to validate the integrity of the model, and the suitability to the medium, prior to printing, saving time and money.
• Interactive Luxology rendering engine (which produces highest-quality images in near real time) is further leveraged to distribute rendering on multiple computers, saving time and improving team efficiency. Also, professional-quality animation has been added to enhance project realism, and support is provided for up to 32 cores, with users benefiting from linear performance gains across each one.

All of this additional value created in MicroStationV8i (SELECTseries 1) helps users provide increasing project quality in sustaining infrastructure.

For additional information about MicroStationV8i (SELECTseries 1), visit www.bentley.com/MicroStation.

About Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards

The Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards, taking place this week in Charlotte, N.C., is Bentley’s premier thought leadership and networking event for 2009. During this invitation-only symposium, the finalists of the 2009 Be Inspired Awards present the best practices behind the successful realization of their projects. In addition, all of the leading practitioners who have gathered for this event have an opportunity to participate in interactive roundtable discussions on the key issues driving the business and design of infrastructure. For additional information about the Be Inspired: Infrastructure Best Practices Symposium and Awards, visit www.bentley.com/BeInspired. 

About Bentley Systems, Inc.

Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,700 colleagues and offices in more than 45 countries, achieved in 2008 the milestone of $500 million in revenues, and, since 1995, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

For additional information about Bentley, visit www.bentley.com.

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MicroStation Directory by TenLinks.com
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Nov 13 - Bentley to Add Energy Performance Series to Academic SELECT
Nov 12 - Bentley Hevacomp V8i Aids ASHRAE Comparisons for LEED
Nov 11 - Bentley Adds Green Building XML Feature to Hevacomp
Nov 4 - City of Phoenix Acquires Bentley's SewerGEMS
Oct 23 - Dr Earl Mark Gets Bentley '2009 Be Inspired Educator' Award
Oct 22 - NJDOT to Use Bentley SUPERLOAD for Online Vehicle Permits
Oct 20 - Bentley Unveils InRoads, GEOPAK, MXROAD V8i SELECTseries 1
Oct 15 - Bentley Announces 2009 Be Inspired Award Winners
Oct 13 - Bentley Ships MicroStation V8i SELECTseries 1
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Oct 13 - Bentley Acquires South Korea's 9SQ, Maker of PlantWAVE
Oct 13 - Bentley Offers Country License, 'Passport' Subscriptions
Oct 13 - Bentley to Acquire KSJ Beijing, Maker of BridgeMaster
Oct 13 - Bentley Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Oct 9 - Bentley Names 2009 Be Inspired Special Recognition Winners
Oct 2 - Bentley's Hevacomp Simulator V8i Gets UK DSM Certification
Sep 11 - Bentley Names Smith, Biagi, Sanins as Solutions Executives
Aug 20 - Bentley Gets 2009 Africa Rail Award for Services
Jul 30 - Philippines' Davao City Selects Bentley WaterGEMS
Jul 28 - Bentley Ships Substation V8i for Electrical Design
Jul 15 - Bentley Building Electrical Systems V8i for AutoCAD Ships
Jun 12 - Bentley Opens 'Be Connected' Online Seminar Registration
May 28 - Bentley ProjectWise Dynamic Plot v8i Links Paper, Model
May 21 - Bentley Expert Designer V8i Updated for Water, Gas Projects
Apr 21 - Greg Bentley Named In Chester County Hall of Fame
Mar 17 - Bentley Ships Green’Building Design Series for US, Canada
Mar 6 - Bentley Cancels Annual User Meeting, Conference
Mar 5 - Bentley Motors Uses Icona Solutions' aesthetica in Crewe
Feb 24 - Bentley's 'Be Employable' Initiative Offers Free Training
Jan 21 - Bentley Names Neethling Solutions Executive, Mining/Metals
Jan 21 - Delhi School Wins 2008-09 Future Cities India 2020 Contest
Jan 29 - GHAFARI Associates Accelerates Design with Bentley
Dec 24 - Bentley Publishes 'Year in Infrastructure 2008' Book
Nov 20 - Bentley Introduces promis•e V8i for Schematics
Nov 6 - Bentley Announces V8i Portfolio
Nov 6 - Bentley Launches BE Communities for Professional Networking
Nov 4 - CPS Energy Adopts Bentley MicroStation, ProjectWise System
Oct 28 - Florida DoT Gets Bentley Enterprise License
Oct 17 - Baker Egerton Joins Bentley as VP Lead Generation
Sep 30 - Germany's EVM Gets Bentley Enterprise License
Sep 25 - Bentley Releases SewerCAD V8 XM Edition
Sep 25 - Bentley Launches 2009 BE Awards Student Design Contest
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Sep 18 - Bentley, Tsinghua University to Offer BIM Support in China
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Aug 1 - Italy's City of Genoa Selects Bentley
Jul 8 - Bentley Releases Gas V8 XM Edition
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