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Accurate As-built Models in the Form of Laser-scanned Point Clouds


Advantages

Immediate Productivity

Bentley CloudWorx provides immediate productivity, enabling users to easily take 3D point cloud data into MicroStation to create accurate as-builts, check proposed designs against existing site conditions and compare construction progress with design plans.

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Powerful Performance and Visualization

3D laser scanners capture existing conditions in the field to generate a highly visual and accurate representation of reality as 3D point clouds. Bentley CloudWorx uses Leica Cyclone technology to display point clouds in MicroStation efficiently through sophisticated rendering performance, visualization, data management and data interrogation.

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Point Cloud Display Control

To focus on particular areas of interest, easy-to-use tools define specific areas of 3D point clouds to display. For improved visualization, segments of point clouds can be selectively hidden using fences and user-defined cutplanes or slices through the point cloud data.

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Spatial Navigation with 3D Limit Box

Project data can be organized into 3D Limit Boxes. A Limit Box Manager enables users to navigate spatially through the database quickly loading and viewing data as-needed.

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Accurate Building Documentation

Slices through point cloud data facilitate the creation of planimetric and elevation drawings. 2D lines, polylines, and arcs can be best-fit to point cloud slices to provide accurate results. Cross sections of point clouds can also be plotted directly, introducing an entirely new, accurate "deliverable" and reducing project cycle time.

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As-built Piping Models

Bentley CloudWorx’s powerful pipe fitting tool enables users to quickly create accurate, intelligent as-built piping models, best-fit to the 3D point clouds, with the help of tools in applications like Bentley PlantSpace. Tie-in locations for proposed retrofit designs can also be easily identified and marked. Planar surfaces can also be modeled from point clouds using Bentley CloudWorx fitting and 'region growing' tools.

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Detailed Information for Retrofit Projects

Engineers can use Bentley CloudWorx in retrofit design projects to check proposed designs for potential interferences with point clouds that represent actual "as-built" or "as-is" conditions. The unparalleled detail provided by point clouds allows engineers to create 2D or 3D designs based on accurate, comprehensive information, providing time- and cost-savings throughout a project's various construction phases.

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Innovations by MicroStation

Productivity is further enhanced because Bentley CloudWorx leverages Innovations by MicroStation. That ensures multiple format support for both DGN and DWG as well as a full-fidelity connection to vertical applications and design/review software such as ProjectWise Navigator.

Familiar and Intuitive Interface

Working with point-cloud data is easy when you are working in the familiar MicroStation interface. It's new keyboard position mapping capability and other enhancements deliver immediate project throughput improvements.

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Available in Multiple Languages

Bentley CloudWorx is available in English, German and Japanese versions.

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