Bentley Descartes* enhances infrastructure modeling by being the only 3D imaging software product that is integrated with MicroStation for the management and processing of fundamental data types used in infrastructure projects (e.g. scalable digital terrain models and point clouds), high productivity visualization workflows, and document conversion - all in a single product.
In all infrastructure projects, engineers need to manage fundamental data types and legacy documents – Bentley Descartes makes this straightforward and intuitive as an extension to MicroStation.
Bentley Descartes provides infrastructure professionals with:
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Point cloud data processing
Bentley Descartes integrates point cloud data with engineering software tools. This comprehensive functionality increases return on investment from point cloud data and help save infrastructure design time and costs.
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Advanced raster processing and management
Bentley Descartes brings raster images into infrastructure workflows, providing visualization and context for infrastructure projects. This contributes to improving the quality of outputs.
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Large scalable digital terrain model (DTM) manipulation
Bentley Descartes enables the use of large terrain models, typically for city or regional level planning, increasing the return on investment on large datasets. The ability to view larger digital terrain models also improves the quality of decisions made in infrastructure projects.
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Management and processing of legacy documentation
Bentley Descartes enables hybrid workflows and the cleanup and vectorization of legacy documents in MicroStation workflows, helping teams to increase productivity.
Bentley Descartes users can also integrate their files with ProjectWise, to document and manage the engineering data. This has the benefit of decreasing the risk of mismanagement and misuse of data and helping to maintain document integrity.
* Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 3) requires MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 3) as a prerequisite.