Create Work Prints, Construction Documents and Drawings
The ability to easily create work prints and other construction documents and drawings has been added to Bentley communication products, Bentley Fiber, Bentley Coax, Bentley Copper, and Bentley Inside Plant. An environment for work print finishing is available to allow quick and easy addition of construction annotation, proposed facilities, borders and other information typically used in work print creation. Total flexibility is included to add customized features and properties and create any user defined BOM report.
General Enhancements
- User customizable attributes
- Command window no longer required
- Option to lock/unlock files by external file
Mapping and Strand
- Lat/Lon fields have been added to the poleped, address, and duct_enclosures tables
Duct
- Lat/Lon fields added to poleped, address, and duct_enclosures tables
- Add Combo Box when selecting bundles during route
- Ability to Change UG trench and peds to duct and enclosures using FENCE CHANGE commands
Fiber
- Support for trays
- Fiber schematics generated automatically
- Ability to edit logical fiber number and manually connect using logical fiber numbers
- New consolidated BOM containing fiber equipment and cable
- Manual connections w/ Multi-Sheath has ability to select specific cable to connect
- Expanded number of characters from six to 64 for cell names
Coax
- Added an option to CHECK DBs to look for strand linkage or not - rose circle
- Added LOCATE DEVICE BY NAME command
- Ability to rename a power supply
- Added error warning if power supply or amp name already used
Copper
- LOCATE OUTAGE command added
- Added combo box when selecting spans during route
- Enhanced complement handling including specification for Cable_ID and RTE_ID
- Can now link to strand addresses w/ Copper Drops
- Expanded number of characters from six to 64 for cell names
Inside Plant
- New option for elevations - use raster images (.jpg, .gif, and so on).
- Ability to place equipment in front or back of rack
- Option for elevations on four sides of racks (rack front/equip front, rack front/equip back, rack back/equip front, rack back/equip back)
- Simplified Wire Run report
- Added Balloon Fly-Over on equipment, slots and ports where labels cannot be read
- Added SEARCH CRITERIA when selecting Devices/Cards/Racks
- Ability to move ports together as a group in SETUP
- Ability to add Prefix and/or Suffix to port labels in SETUP
- Circuit Trace report now warns when elevation not present
- Expanded number of characters from six to 64 for cell names
- Added Combo boxes in many places
Bentley PowerMap Field for Communications
- Contains capabilities specific to the communications user
- Includes standard PowerMap Field capabilities
- Bentley Communications Model partially ported to XFM (XML Feature Modeling)
- Detailed equipment reviews
- Standard equipment reviews
- Splicing documentation
- Locating tools for devices/addressesFiber Xsection review
- Redlining
- Locating tools
- Measure distance tool
- Printing/plotting capability
Bentley Geo Web Publisher for Communications
- Contains publishing capabilities specific to the communications users
- Includes standard Geo Web Publisher capabilities
- Detailed equipment reviews
- Standard equipment reviews
- Splicing documentation
- Locating tools for devices/addresses
- Fiber Xsection
- Review and redlining
- Locating fiber outage
- Measure Distance tool
- Optical system trace
- Printing/plotting capability
- Spatial query - all customers by type (R,M,C) within x feet of cable
IMPORT/EXPORT OSS EXPORT
The ability to import and export information in a common data structure for data exchange with OSS systems is now available.