Bentley Expert Designer

The Benefits of Bentley Expert Designer Learning Technology

A New Paradigm in Ease of Use What makes the typical designer's job especially difficult is having to bridge gaps between multiple task domains to assemble information that satisfies customers and construction crews as well as other business requirements.

Introduction to Expert Designer

An Overview on Bentley Electric and Bentley Expert Designer Watch this video to learn about Bentley's Utilities product line

Expert Designer and PDF Work Prints

eSeminar on Bentley Expert Designer Presented by: Jim Lucas, Service Director, Electric Professional Services

See how Expert Designer can work with ProjectWise to track utility designs

Electric and Gas Utility Distribution Design and Facility Management Watch this video presented by Vonnie Smith P.E

Rapid Layout of Facilities With Expert Designer, users drag and drop features into their designs using a convenient, dockable catalog. Job defaults are in place to make sure rules-of-thumb for design are followed.   The approach guarantees standardization by ensuring designers follow guidelines.

Configurable Business Work Flow

Work Organization in Bentley Expert Designer

Making a Quick Estimate Using Design Templates

Comparing an Overhead and Underground Design

Learn How Bentley Expert Designer Automatically Assigns Compatible Units

On-the-Fly Design Cost Estimating with Bentley Expert Designer

Bentley Expert Designer's Support for In-House and Contractor Labor Watch videos detailing interesting Bentley Electric features

Free Form Placements Placing an intelligent electric feature according to the electric model is as simple as placing any other feature

Inference Engine The Bentley Electric advanced Inference engine operates behind the scenes using rules to automatically establish network and attachment relationships as the user lays out facilities in the GIS

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 parametric network tracing

Customizing Phase Validation when establishing Connectivity during Placement

Plotting Work Prints in Bentley Electric   Related eSeminars

Substation Design Solution - BE 2007 Bentley Substation Design solution capitalizes on the breadth of Bentley’s applications to offer a comprehensive solution ranging from civil/site design, to structural or control house design, to intelligent electric schematics, to full 3D modeling of the substation. This presentation describes the solution components and the business model for deploying the Bentley Substation Design solution.

Progress Energy Using ProjectWise to Manage a Geographically Dispersed Electrical System Design This session presents Progress Energy’s use of ProjectWise to manage and standardize substation design projects performed by geographically separated design teams from differing corporate cultures using disparate design tools

Utility Distribution Design and Facility Management

Bentley Electric Solution Overview

Features in the Bentley Expert Designer Features list    Get the detailed feature list of Bentley Expert Designer Bentley Expert Designer Technical Requirements Take a look at the Technical Requirements for Bentley Expert Designer   Bentley Expert Designer brochure A full featured, integrated software solution for geospatial facility design     The BGE Bentley Project Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. The BGE Bentley Project consisted of the conversion of over 9,500 gas maps, 14,000 electric maps, 900,000 MicroStation drawings, and associated databases. Approximately 80 percent of the business case was based on successful delivery of the CAD/GIS Job Design application, Bentley Expert Designer, and a successful conversion of land, gas, and electric data.   Related products Bentley Electric Brochure Efficient GIS for Electric Utilities Bentley Electric capitalizes on Bentley’s GIS platform to address the facility management, modeling, and maintenance issues that electric utilities encounter in day-to-day operations.