Makes Leading Generative Design Software Available for Immediate, No-Charge Download at www.Bentley.com/GetGC; Offering Includes Instructional Materials and Support
BARCELONA, Spain – SmartGeometry 2010 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that its proven GenerativeComponents (GC) generative design software – delivered with MicroStation and successfully employed the past seven years by more than 10,000 users on inspiring projects around the world – is now available as a no-charge, stand-alone technology preview release. The new offering provides a feature set solely focused on computational design and includes no-charge instructional materials and user support through a dedicated online GC forum – ensuring the successful exploration of generative design software by a larger community of infrastructure professionals. The software can be downloaded with a single click at www.Bentley.com/GetGC.
Bentley’s GC is a powerful and enabling technology for architects and engineers across multiple disciplines. It has been incorporated in more than 80 academic curriculums and adopted for use by many of the world’s leading architectural and engineering practices, including Arup, Buro Happold SMART, Foster + Partners, Grimshaw, Henning Larsen Architects, HOK, PLP Architecture, Morphosis, SHoP Architects, Snøhetta, and UNStudio.
Bentley’s experience with GC in research, academia, commercial practices, and the computational design community has shown that even small hurdles to acquiring, installing, and licensing new methodologies such as generative design can significantly limit the pace at which they are explored and adopted. Recognizing the important contributions generative design practices are already making to the creation of better-performing, more sustainable buildings and other structures, Bentley is paving the way for any and all practitioners and organizations to try generative design software today.
Huw Roberts, Bentley global marketing director, said, “The use of generative design methods to deliver more sustainable buildings is currently practiced primarily by architectural and structural innovators. Bentley is a strong advocate for the expanded use of generative design practices, and has helped enable its adoption through our innovative GC software and support of industry communities such as the SmartGeometry Group. By offering a stand-alone technology preview release of our GC software at no charge, and making access to its powerful capabilities as simple as a website click, we hope to accelerate the use of generative design methods for building design, and to encourage a broader community to begin exploring its many features.
“In addition, by continuing our highly interactive relationship with the growing community of GC adopters, we can symbiotically discover generative design’s full potential. This will quickly benefit users while informing the course of Bentley’s future product developments as we provide users a migration path to extended GC capabilities through additional integrations with Bentley’s comprehensive portfolio of software for sustaining infrastructure.”
To download the GenerativeComponents technology preview release, visit www.Bentley.com/GetGC.
About GenerativeComponents
GenerativeComponents enables architects and engineers to pursue designs and achieve results that were virtually unthinkable before. Empowered by computational methods, the designers can direct their creativity to deliver inspired, sustainable, better-performing buildings that are freer in form and use innovative materials and assemblies. GenerativeComponents facilitates this by allowing the quick exploration of a broad range of “what-if” alternatives for even the most complex buildings.
This unique generative design software captures and exploits the critical relationships between design intent and geometry. Designs can be refined by either dynamically modeling and directly manipulating geometry, by applying rules and capturing relationships among building elements, or by defining complex building forms and systems through concisely expressed algorithms.
To inform decisions, GenerativeComponents is integrated with building information modeling, analysis, and simulation software, providing feedback on building materials, assemblies, systems performance, and environmental conditions. This integration also ensures that intent becomes reality by enabling designs to accurately and efficiently flow through to detailed production and fabrication.
For more information about GenerativeComponents, visit www.bentley.com/gc.
About Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Bentley is the global leader dedicated to providing architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 2,700 colleagues and offices in more than 45 countries, achieved in 2008 the milestone of $500 million in revenues, and, since 1995, has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
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