Bentley speedikon Architectural V8i

Proven, open, and versatile architectural application

• A single application for MicroStation, AutoCAD, and as stand-alone version
• Powerful tools for building design and "as built" documentation
• Suitable for projects of all sizes and complexities (residential, office, airport, railway stations, industrial plants, and so on)
• Applicable in many industry segments  (architecture; interior design; pre-fab housing; automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical
      industry and more)
• Able to support for several European standards (see "Support of industry standards")
• Customizable to company requirements and workflows
• Support for architectural stages 1 to 6 and 9
• Recommended by German car manufacturers as design solution for industrial plants and the "digital factory" (for example: DaimlerChrysler and BMW)
  
  

Building Information Modeling

• Creation of central virtual 3D building model
• Comprehensive tools for placement and modification of all building elements (single and multi-leaf (cavity) walls, columns, beams, slabs, roofs, floors, stairs, windows, doors, gates, furniture, façade elements, ladders, ramps, and more)
• Building elements and spaces with attributes, properties, and rules
• Associativity between building elements
• Unrestricted elements forms (round, sloping, offset, non-uniform cross-sections, and more)
• Combination of steel and concrete construction in one system
• Macro language for creation of individual building elements and analysis
• Referencing of other drawings and models
• Import of coordinates from other sources
• Comprehensive 2D drafting tools
  

Drawings and reports

• View filter-based generation of drawings from central building model (floor plans, sections, elevation, details and so on)
• Priority system for correct calculation and display of wall intersections/junctions in 2D and 3D
• Batch option to update or generate multiple and large drawings overnight
• Rule-based generation of alpha-numeric output from central building model (quantities, reports, schedules, room areas and volumes, room books, verifiable area calculation and so on)
• Area and volume calculations according to DIN 277
• Automatic update of drawings and numeric output
  
  

View filter technology

• Drawing generation and model representation at different scales and depth of detail - at the touch of a button (site plans, working drawings, presentation drawings,
      egress plans, and more)
• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) display and plotting
• Display according to DIN 1356
  
  

Design visualization

• Integrated high-end rendering and animation tools, including radiosity and particle tracing (photo-realistic images, animated walk-throughs, solar studies, interactive interior/exterior
      panoramas and more)
      [in MicroStation version only]
  
  

Ease of Use

• Option to work in traditional 2D floor plan or in 3D model
• Input/change done in one place only; drawings and 3D model automatically kept in synch
• Simple, yet powerful modifications through associativity between building elements (move wall modifies adjacent building elements, area calculation, labels, dimensioning)
• Comprehensive, yet extendable libraries of building components    (furniture, fixture, equipment, components, section tables, pre-fab parts, and more)
• Automatic import of paper documents via ScanSnap scanner
• Online help
  
  

Project management and cross-discipline coordination

• Intuitive and powerful project management functions (archiving of project stages with all relevant files and links)
• User management tools to organized project teams
• Seamless integration with other disciplines (building services, steel detailing, Intergraph PDS (Plant Design System), tender documentation)
• Coordination with numerous MicroStation and AutoCAD applications
  

Support of industry and company standards

• Import/export of industry-standard file formats (DGN, DWG, DXF, COM, ENVELOPE, GAEB, STEP, HLI bidirectional, IGES 2D/3D, MBA-Export,
      ArCon-Import (2D/3D), ARRIBA CA3D-Import (2D/3D), DRV, PDF, HPGL, TIF, JPG, BMP, WMF, GIF, TXT, Postscript, ORJ, and others)
• Export to Internet file formats (3D Adobe PDF, VRML, O2C, ORJ and others)
• Integrated German DIN standard; able to support several other European building industry standards
• Material names of construction and finishes according to DIN
• Support for numerous international steel section tables
• Definition, management, and enforcement of company-specific project standards
• Export to other discipline-specific applications:
      - tender documention: ARRIBA planen, AVAplus, CPLAN (COSOBA)
      - facilities management: speedikon FM
      - building services: TRICAD, heatloss calculation, openings
      - steel construction: Bocad, ProSteel, SDNF, Sucad
      - Intergraph PDS: FrameWorks