Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 2)
Advanced Texturing Tools
Bentley Descartes contains tools to texture 3D shapes with image data. The tools will map an image to a shape, rectify it to fit the shape, adjust any edge points, and convert images to an Advanced Texture. The texturing tools help urban planners create realistic scenes from 3D models.
Data courtesy City of Quebec
Advanced texturing process:
- Assign shape to image
This tool assigns a shape or shapes to an image or a number of images
- Warp Image to Area
Rectify an image to match the associated shape
- Stretch Image
Stretch images to match the shape upon which it has been mapped
- Convert to Advanced Texture
Convert images to Advanced Textures for higher resolution display
- Convert to Texture
Convert images to standard textures for conventional rendering
Now Certified on Multiple Products
- MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- MicroStation PowerDraft V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerCivil V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerCivil for North America V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerCivil for Country V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley Power Rail Track V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley Power InRoads V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley Power GEOPAK V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerSurvey V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley MXROAD V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerMap V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 2) Is “Citrix Ready” for Application Virtualization
Dynamic Raster Snap
- When this option is enabled, all mouse moves have a shadow cursor that snaps to the nearest raster foreground element. A data point will be recorded at the location of shadow cursor. Therefore, it is possible to snap on raster drawings while placing MicroStation elements.
- This feature is only available for binary files.
Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 1)
GeoRaster support
Bentley Descartes now lets you connect to Oracle Spatial databases and view stored GeoRasters.
Raster Surface (DEM)
It is now possible to attach Raster Surface (DEM) to Bentley Descartes. These files are displayed as 2D, but It is possible assign color based on elevation, slope, or aspect.
Define Seam tool enhancements
Enhancements to this tool now allow the feathering area to be defined interactively. It is now possible to see a preview of the feathering while placing the seam line. Also, only the top raster is modified by the tool so that the mosaic can be detached and reattached without losing the mosaicking.
Combine Images tool
Used to perform a logical operation on a selected area of two specified rasters and place the resulting data on a destination raster. This tool works on binary rasters only.
Paste from File tool
Pastes the contents of a selected file in much the same way that the clipboard contents are pasted.
Merge tool
It is now possible to rasterize a view or a portion of a view to the clipboard using the Merge tool.
New fence behavior in Editing tools
The tools that support fences to define an area have a new toggle in their tool settings called “Use Fence”. When this option is turned ON, the editing tool will work on all the raster attachments overlapped by the fence and will ignore the raster selection. The fence will always be treated as a fence clip, which means that only the pixels overlapped by the fence will be edited.
Line Cap and Line Join settings
A new section labeled “Line Ends” has been added to the Line Mapping Settings dialog. This section comprises two new settings labeled “Line Cap and “Line Join”. These settings specify the line caps and line joins to be used in the Merge and Stamp operations.
Dynamic Rubber Band display enhancements
The display of the dynamic rubber bands used in the Bentley Descartes editing tools has been enhanced so that they are easier to see.
Windows 7 compliance
Bentley Descartes is now Windows 7 compliant