Bentley Electric

Conduit Management

Bentley Electric includes a robust set of tools to manage complex underground networks.  These tools leverage the Inference Engine and the Feature Editor to set connectivity and relationships. With the Diagram Editor, conduit arrangements can be visualized and edited with a cross section and wall layout display.

Inference Engine

The Bentley Electric advanced inference engine operates behind the scenes using rules to automatically establish network and attachment relationships, giving the user the freedom to utilize efficient workflows to layout facilities.

Feature Editing

The Bentley Electric feature editor allows the user precise control to modify properties, connectivity, attachment relationships, and parent-child relationships while maintaining data integrity.

Network Tracing

The Bentley Electric network engine supports parameter-based network trace analysis. Trace constraints—for example, stop conditions—are sets of user-defined, feature-specific queries used by the network engine to precisely control trace behavior.  Trace Events allow for precise customization of the expected results.

Choice of Data Stores

Bentley Electric supports various persistence models, including DGN with RDBMS and Oracle Spatial in a two-tier configuration.  

Adding Bentley Expert Designer Electric and Bentley Geospatial Server expands this capability to include three-tier connections and the ability to integrate with GE Smallworld.

Leverages the Bentley Geospatial Architecture

Bentley leverages the capabilities of MicroStation and the built-in Bentley Map functionality to optimize workflows for electric utilities. The Bentley Geospatial Server further extends Bentley Electric by giving structured access to enterprise GIS data stores and other engineering content.

Highly Configurable

The Bentley Electric data model is completely configurable with the Model Administrator using standard tools. This approach offers significant implementation cost savings.

Customizable

Bentley Electric is entirely customizable through a robust customization model that is accessible using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and any .NET language.

Watch video of customizing phase validation when establishing connectivity

Integration with Bentley Expert Designer Electric

Seamless integration with Bentley Expert Designer Electric adds powerful new capabilities, including on-the-fly design cost estimation, design cost comparison, automatic compatible unit assignment, configurable work flows, and support for work management and asset management solutions, to name just a few.