Bentley Cloud
Services - Helps you produce better designs by facilitating
collaboration, interoperability, standardization, and skills development. It
also provides greater insight and control over project design, deliverables and
the people working on them. Each CONNECTED user is provisioned with a
CONNECTION Center on the
Bentley Cloud Services
site. This portal provides users access to each of the following
services and more.
Improved Help
System Learning options - You can learn at your own pace through On
Demand options. You can watch video lectures, download hands-on workshops,
watch the SIG recordings. You can also have live interactions, attend a virtual
classroom or SIG, you can go to a physical event like a user group, get Account
Specific Training, get live training through our Channel Partners or attend any
of the Bentley events globally. We have given our users many, many ways to
learn.
Item
Types - An item type is a user defined set of properties used to
describe an object or element. Item types can be assigned to rebar, concrete,
steel, any graphical element. Once assigned to features in the model, they can
be reviewed, reported on and displayed as annotation or in a table and exported
to i-models (see this
Item Types - Introduction
Bentley Communities article for more information).
Annotation with
field types with Favorites - When using the Place Note tool,
annotations fields can be added that
include intelligent
fields which link to various properties in the model and business
properties in the design model. They can be saved as favorites for easy
placement and gets updated whenever a property data change occurs.
Parametric
cells - You can now include variables, constraints, item types and
variances when modeling parametric cells. This provides users the flexibility
to include in parametric cells formulas, inter-object relationship and user
defined data.
Acute3D -
Captures reality by
turning photos into 3D
models automatically with
ContextCapture. Produces meshed surface
models from a series of digital photographs of existing structures or as built
projects. By geo-referencing a model, it allows the model to be correctly
located in a similar geo-referenced design file.
Display
rules - Is a powerful new feature in which an engineering
model's display can be
overridden based on many criteria. Display rules can access file, model,
references and other properties. Display rules do not change the symbology of
the model it is strictly for display time, however the result can be printed to
PDF and other formats. However, Display Rule results can be exported to PDF's
or printed.
Reports and
Tables - The report tool extracts graphical or business information
from file or design objects based on a number of criteria. Reports can be
exported to a variety of formats or the content of the report can be placed
graphically with the new a table feature.
Sheet
Indexing - Is a
centralized list of drawings
available in a WorkSet, they can be organized by folder,
discipline, contractor etc., it supports comprehensive sheet numbering rules
like prefix/suffix, start number, and increment number. Additionally, other
project specific properties can be associated with each sheet, and can be
placed as a table.
Visualization -
CONNECT Edition brings several new features for visualization such as, the
animation producer now supports 3D
constrained geometry, the texture replicator
produces more realistic textures and several new procedural textures have been
added.
Georeferencing - Is the process of relating a
design to a real world location, the primary reason is the interoperability
with GIS, easy of visualization in Google Earth and integrating with GPS on
mobile devices.