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Bentley Descartes Feature List
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Interpretation and Conversion
- Raster to vector conversion
- New line conversion engine
- New generalization algorithms
- Automatic and Interactive Modes
- Topologically ready linework
- Point, stream, and arc modes
- Gap jumping
- Continue at intersections
- Line straightening
- Generalization
- Raster Snap
- Convert contours
- Convert all connected lines
- Convert area
- Erase raster while vectorizing
- Spy Window
- Vector to raster conversion
- Automatic vector stamping
- Stamp vector
- Merge (High definition screen capture)
- Optical Character Recognition
- New Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine
- Foreign language support for OCR
- Custom OCR dictionary
- Replace raster symbols with MicroStation cells
High Fidelity Imaging
- AccuSnap enabled on image borders
- Dynamic raster snap (binary raster)
- Snap on edge
- Snap on center of line
- Snap on intersection
- Manipulate standard MicroStation Selection Sets
- Move, Scale, Rotate using standard MicroStation tools
- Manipulate selected raster and vector elements in a single operation
- Dynamic transparency (defined by color mask)
Rapid Document Cleanup, Editing, and Enhancement and Flexible Image Manipulation
- Fence supported as vector elements
- Paint
- Erase
- Clean-up
- Flood (binary raster)
- Combine images (binary rasters)
- Editing of 3D oriented images
- Edit in the image plane using "Work in image plane" option
- Local transform (edit area of a raster)
- Move, scale, rotate, mirror, and warp
- Cover-up area and clone area (color rasters)
Image Enhancement and Manipulation
- Square
- Clipping
- Translucency/Transparency
- WYSIWYG Enhancement tools
- Crop using non-rectangular shapes
- Resize canvas
- Selection Set operations
- Scene creation (merge)
- Cut/copy/paste
- Uses standard Windows clipboard
- Image filters (blur, sharpen, edge enhance...)
Registration and Transformation
- Register/Resampling
- Precision warping
- Easy-to-use interface for creation of more precise warps
- Accurate results the first time with WYSIWYG display of vectors and control points over raster
- Precise fit without iterations
- Ability to offload processing to a convenient time with batch resampling
- Multiple warping methods
- Align
- Helment
- Similitude
- Affine
- Thin-Plate Spline
- Polynomial (2nd and 3rd degree)
- Projective
- Georeferenced File Formats
- Georeferenced “Sister Files”
Dynamic Tools to Rapidly Create Image Mosaics
- Mosaic creation
- Automatic color balancing on unlimited number of images
- Corridor
- Mosaic, crop and transform raster images, based on DGN elements, to a single output raster
- Included vector elements can also be cropped and transformed
- Merge
- Generate a mosaic using the visible rasters within a defined area
- Included vector elements can also be rasterized into the output raster
Bentley Descartes Integration
- Bentley Descartes can be installed on:
- MicroStation
- Bentley Map
- MicroStation PowerDraft
- Bentley PowerMap
- Bentley PowerCivil
- Bentley Descartes is integrated with ProjectWise
- Bentley I/RAS B compatibility
- Bentley I/RAS B and Bentley Descartes attachments are identical
- Support for Bentley I/RAS B COR files
Standard File Formats
- Raster files:
- iTiff64, OGC WMS, ECW (unlimited), PDF, IMG, JPEG 2000, BIL, DOQ, FLI, SPOT CAP, TIFF (1 to 32-bit), GEOTIFF, iTIFF, COT, CIT, RLE, CALS, PCX, IMG, BUM, TG4, INT, RGB, TGA, JPEG, RLC, RS, HMR, BMP, and IKONOS 3, and 4 bands from Space Imaging
- Compression schemes: Deflate, PackBits, CCITT3, CCITT4, and JPEG
- Wavelet compression schemes: ECW and MrSID
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