Key new features in V8i SELECTseries 3 | Key new features in V8i SELECTseries 2
Key new features in Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 3)
Advanced Point-cloud Data Processing
These new features enhance MicroStation, PowerDraft and many other Bentley applications with advanced point-cloud capabilities, including:
Classification editing
Classification editing tools allow users to edit and fix mistakes the service provider may have made on the classified data. It’s a simple way to isolate and remove points to support retrofitting, and more generally clean up point-cloud data.
Classification editing also allows users to generate valid terrain surface directly from the points, reducing the surface terrain filtering post processing time.
Drape and snap elements
Users can drape vectors along an arbitrary direction, projecting a simple linear element on the point-cloud surface to extract sections as well as projecting points to the terrain to extract a grid. Bentley Descartes users can also drape an alignment over the point cloud. This allows conceptual design on major road and rail projects along long alignments to be executed easily.
Point-cloud visual explorer
Visual Explorer is a visual help for users to dynamically re-color points in the cursor neighborhood based on their 3D location and a direction. It enables a better navigation and understanding of the 3D scene and allows users to do a simple QA/QC of the point-cloud data. Visual Explorer will provide even faster and more accurate digitizing, especially when combined with Smart Snap.
Smart snap
This features provides real time filtering of point cloud to isolate key points (such as the lowest, highest, average or median point along a user defined path), which allows immediate QA of the point filtering.
Batch tile export
Tile export allows users to define the extent in 3D of the exported files quickly and with a lot of flexibility. Tiles exports can be done in batch.
Export to LAS and POD
Exports allow users to create point-cloud deliverables in efficient binary file format either as native Bentley POD files or as LAS industry standard. For higher flexibility, users can also choose to export to XYZ files.
Primitive fitting
Planar and cylindrical elements can easily be extracted from complex point clouds.
Large Scalable Terrain Model (STM) Manipulation
The scalable digital terrain model is a revolutionary new technology that provides high performance display of very large digital terrain models (DTMs), in the order of billion of points. These terrain models can be used for very high area applications such as city or state-wise modeling and visualization.
Display modes
Terrain models can be displayed in a variety of modes, such as smooth shading, smooth shading with shadows, thematic showing aspect angle, elevation, slope, and contours.
High resolution image draping
The STM feature also supports high resolution image draping, to display a raster backdrop on the digital terrain model with extremely good resolution regardless of the terrain model or image size.
STM update and synchronization
Users can easily keep the STM up-to-date by synchronizing it with a wide variety of sources, including DGN, Civil DTM, point cloud, XYZ. As the source is updated, the large STM can be easily regenerated.
Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 2)
Advanced Texturing Tools
Bentley Descartes contains tools to texture 3D shapes with image data. The tools will map an image to a shape, rectify it to fit the shape, adjust any edge points, and convert images to an Advanced Texture. The texturing tools help urban planners create realistic scenes from 3D models.
Data courtesy City of Quebec
Advanced texturing process:
- Assign shape to image
This tool assigns a shape or shapes to an image or a number of images
- Warp Image to Area
Rectify an image to match the associated shape
- Stretch Image
Stretch images to match the shape upon which it has been mapped
- Convert to Advanced Texture
Convert images to Advanced Textures for higher resolution display
- Convert to Texture
Convert images to standard textures for conventional rendering
Now Certified on Multiple Products
- MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- MicroStation PowerDraft V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerCivil V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerCivil for North America V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerCivil for Country V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley Power Rail Track V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley Power InRoads V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley Power GEOPAK V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerSurvey V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley MXROAD V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
- Bentley PowerMap V8i (SELECTseries 2) or higher
Bentley Descartes V8i (SELECTseries 2) Is “Citrix Ready” for Application Virtualization
Dynamic Raster Snap
- When this option is enabled, all mouse moves have a shadow cursor that snaps to the nearest raster foreground element. A data point will be recorded at the location of shadow cursor. Therefore, it is possible to snap on raster drawings while placing MicroStation elements.
- This feature is only available for binary files.