Bentley Launches GenerativeComponents Subscription Program
 BOSTON,
MA, May 16, 2008 – (AIA 2008 National Convention and Design Exposition) –
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced a special new annual
subscription program for GenerativeComponents (GC), Bentley’s exciting new
generative design software for architects and engineers. The innovative
GenerativeComponents Discovery Subscription program includes a one-year
subscription to GC, plus online learning and support resources to help users
accelerate their discovery of the power of this new technology. GC enables
architects and engineers to pursue designs and achieve results that were
virtually unthinkable before. Empowered by computational methods, designers
can direct their creativity to deliver inspired, sustainable buildings that
are freer in form and use innovative materials. The GC Discovery
Subscription is available to new users for $250 in the United States. For
pricing outside of the U.S., contact Bentley.
Commenting on this new subscription program, CEO Greg Bentley said,
“Thousands have taken advantage of our free trial download of GC that we
introduced last year. They have experienced the ability to quickly explore a
broad range of ‘what-if’ design alternatives, and their feedback has been
most gratifying.
“To empower others to employ computational power through GC to discover
their ideal designs, we have developed an extremely cost-effective program.
To my knowledge, our Discovery Subscription is the first of its kind among
providers of software for infrastructure. We are proud to offer it to
architects and engineers around the globe eager to pursue a new approach to
design.”
GC uniquely preserves and exploits the critical relationships between
design intent and geometry. Users can, for instance, dynamically model and
manipulate geometry, apply rules and capture relationships among geometric
features, and define complex forms through concisely expressed algorithms.
By virtue of GC’s extension of Bentley’s MicroStation environment, the
resulting generative designs can flow through to detailed production and
fabrication without information loss.
The GC Discovery Subscription is available for secure purchase by credit
card online at
www.generativecomponents.com. Along with the software for download,
users receive a robust set of GC-related resources from Bentley – including
OnDemand eLearning – and gain entry to the new and expanding BE Communities
website, which includes blogs, wikis, forums, and a resource gallery for
sharing generative design project work. Practitioners will be able to meet
equally inquisitive peers, share how-to information and best practices, and
learn about upcoming GC events. You can visit BE Communities, which is still
in beta, at community.be.org.
GenerativeComponents is available to Bentley SELECT subscribers at no
additional charge. For more information, visit
www.generativecomponents.com.
GC has already been incorporated into the curricula of top architectural
and engineering colleges and universities around the world, including
Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT in North
America; the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London,
the University of Bath, and the Architectural Association in the United
Kingdom; TU Delft and KTH Stockholm in Continental Europe; and RMIT
University in Australia.
Designs that have been completed using GC include Dostyk Towers by NBBJ
and E/Ye Design, Cutty Sark Pavilion by YOUMEHESHE, The Pinnacle by Kohn
Pederson Fox, and Museo del Acero by Grimshaw Architects.
About these designs, David Chadwick, editor, CADUser and Construction
Computing, said, “Projects already completed using GenerativeComponents
clearly illustrate tremendous creativity based on a highly developed sense
of intuitive design, while being expressed with a clarity that comes from an
equally developed sense of design logic.”
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle of the
world’s infrastructure. The company’s comprehensive portfolio for the
building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans architecture,
engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With revenues now surpassing
$400 million annually, and more than 2,400 colleagues globally, Bentley is
the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Top
Design Firms and major owner-operators and was named the world’s No. 2
provider of GIS/geospatial software solutions in a Daratech research study.
For more information, visit
www.bentley.com.
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