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Proven, open, and versatile architectural application
- A single application for MicroStation, PowerDraft, and AutoCAD
- 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 more)
- Applicable in many industry segments (architecture; interior design; pre-fab housing; automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical and other industries)
- Able to support several European standards (see Support of industry and company standards below)
- Customizable to company requirements and workflows
- Support for architectural stages 1 through 6 and 9
- Recommended by German car manufacturers as design offering for industrial plants and the "digital factory" (for example: Daimler AG and BMW Group)
Building Information Modeling
- Creation of central virtual 3D building model
- Comprehensive tools for placement and modification of parametric 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
- Management of shared elements overlapping different floor levels
- Relationships between building elements
- Various forms (round, sloping, offset, non-uniform cross-sections, and more)
- Combination of steel and concrete design in one system
- Macro script language for customizing of individual building elements and reports
- Referencing of other drawings and models
- Import of coordinates from other sources
- Comprehensive 2D drafting tools
Drawings and reports
- View filter-based drawing generation from central building model (floor plans, ceiling plans, sections, elevations)
- 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 reporting from central building model (quantities, reports, schedules, room areas and volumes, verifiable area calculation)
- 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 level of detail - at the touch of a button (site plans, construction drawings, presentation drawings,
egress plans, and more)
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) display and plotting
- Displaying and printing 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 relationships between building elements (move wall modifies adjacent building elements, room area calculation, labels, dimensioning)
- Reference planes for building elements height reference as a base concept
- 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 technology
- Context sensitive help system
Project management and cross-discipline coordination
- Intuitive and powerful project manager tool integrated
- User management tools to organize project teams
- Integrated in ProjectWise supporting distributed project teams and global collaboration
- Connection to other discipline-specific applications:
- Building services: Bentley Building Mechanical System, Bentley Building Electrical System, TRICAD MS
- Steel design and engineering: ProSteel, STAAD.Pro, bocad, SUcad, FrameWorks
- Energy analysis: Hevacomp, Bentley TAS
- Cost estimation/specification: AVAplus®, ARRIBA® planen, COSOBA (CPLAN)
- Facilities management: speedikon FM
- Coordination with numerous MicroStation and AutoCAD applications
Support of industry and company standards
- Support of industry-standard CAD file formats (DGN, DWG, DXF)
- Support of industry-standard graphics file formats PDF, HPGL, TIF, JPG, BMP, WMF, GIF (see also MicroStation, PowerDraft, AutoCAD)
- Export to Internet file formats (3D Adobe PDF, VRML)
- Data export in domain specific formats:
- SDNF (Steel Detailing Neutral Format)
- STD (Structural Analysis And Design – STAAD)
- GBXML (Green Building Extended Markup Language)
- DRV (Design Review – PDS)
- HLI (High Level Interface)
- 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
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