New and Changed in OpenCities Map CONNECT Edition Update 7

Last updated: July 26, 2023

Product re-branding within the Bentley software catalog is taking place in order to provide clarity and consistency across the naming of desktop applications. Products that are affected include those sold in Suites, Tiers, and Enterprise Editions, such as the OpenCities Map products, beginning with this Update 7 commercial release.

OpenCities Map products have been offered in a three-tiered approach from the beginning - OpenCities Map PowerView, the most basic version of the application; OpenCities Map, for users who mainly work with 2D and need to update spatial databases, and OpenCities Map Enterprise, the most comprehensive version of the product that adds full support of 3D. The Enterprise Edition also comes with a complete version of MicroStation and Descartes.

The new names will establish consistency across all products in the Bentley catalog. The basic version name will remain the same. The intermediate version will have the word "Advanced" appended to it. The most comprehensive version will no longer be referred to as an Enterprise edition and have "Ultimate" appended to it.

Therefore, the new names for the OpenCities Map products will be:

These other enhancements have been added to OpenCities Map CONNECT Edition Update 7:

Re-branding
- Product Names have changed throughout the Bentley catalog and domain
DGN2DB
- Command line tool to incorporate your DGNs into a spatial database. Oracle and PostGIS are now supported.
Place by Command Key-in Metadata
- New Placement Method in the Geospatial Administrator. Used to easily create a placement method by calling any tool that can be activated with a key-in.
See the Resolved Issues in Update 7 list in the Bentley Communities for more details regarding fixes to existing commands

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The following features in this update are provided as Technology Preview:

Labeling has several enhancements such as: specifying label frequency, specifying area type to label, trimming labeled elements to the view, containing labels within a closed element, and setting the maximum label size factor.
Label Collision Detection to detect and resolve text conflicts.
Export Feature Definitions
- This new tool allows you to create, in the specified schema, the feature definitions (Symbology and Properties) for the active session inferred features.
- This tool is in the Map Admin workflow of the OpenCities Map Ribbon.
The New Live Feature Detection Rules dialog.
- It is now possible to create rules to determine which feature definition a CAD element will be inferred as.
- It is also possible with the rules to set property values for the inferred feature based on information extracted from the CAD element.
- This tool is in the Map Admin Workflow of the OpenCities Map Ribbon