LONDON, UK, (The Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference), Nov 3, 2015 – Bentley Systems is now offering OpenBridge Modeler, new intelligent 3D parametric bridge analytical modeling software that leverages designs directly from Bentley’s civil design applications.
OpenBridge Modeler’s seamless integration with Bentley’s civil applications allows users to calibrate design to terrain, roadways, access ramps, and other related infrastructure.
Key capabilities include:
- Intelligent, parametric 3D bridge modelling for rapid and iterative design
- Seamlessintegration with Bentley’s civil applications to calibrate design to terrain, roadways, access ramps, and other related infrastructure
- Seamless integration with bridge analytics applications such as LEAP Bridge and RM Bridge for design, analysis, and load rating of bridges
- Enhanced visualization for lifelike renderings, traffic simulations, and more
- Clash detection to reduce interference problems, such as underground utilities interferencebefore construction begins minimizing costly delays
- Construction simulation and planning to stage work and ensure constructability
The built-in and user-defined relationships among the bridge components allows controlled, automatic update of the model when geometric parameters change. Predictable andinevitable changes to requirements can therefore be easily managed and incorporated into designs throughout the project lifecycle.
OpenBridge Modeler includes design modeling capabilities including rendering and visualization, clash detection, dynamic views, scheduling, and construction simulation. The powerful parametric cross-section template provides freedom in modeling intricate shapes. Extensive libraries of commonly used structural and non-structural components makes modeling everyday bridges easier, creates realistic visualizations, and provides the detail for precisecost estimates.
With its ProjectWise integration, all stakeholders in OpenBridge Modelerworkflows are connected and can share and reuse project data throughout the lifecycle of the bridge, supporting design, engineering, maintenance, and operations processes.
Raoul Karp, Bentley Systems, VP Structural and Bridge Analysis,states that“Federal, local, and private owners are realizing the value of 3D model workflows in the design, construction, and operations of bridges, and are more commonly mandating 3D-based models as a contractual deliverable. OpenBridgeModeler is a culmination and aggregation of generations of experience and Bentley technology. OpenBridgeModeler is built on a foundation ofBentley’s civil design, structural analysis, and structural detailing technology, together with specific new innovations for 3D bridge analytical modeling.”
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2008 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
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