- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Work with all data types, regardless of size, in a single product
- Extract ground and breaklines from reality meshes and point clouds
- Use advanced modeling, clipping, and sectioning tools to create 3D models
- Produce animations and renderings for presentations
Descartes
Powerful reality modeling data process application
Including 3 training credits
Powerful reality modeling data process application
Work with all data types, regardless of size, in a single product. With Bentley Descartes, Bentley?s reality modeling data processing software, you can integrate point clouds, reality meshes, scalable terrain models, and raster imagery into your infrastructure workflows.
Quickly and easily manipulate 3D reality meshes
Descartes enables the fast and easy manipulation of 3D reality meshes of any scale as well as the generation of cross sections, extraction of ground and breaklines, and production of orthophotos, 3D PDFs, and iModels. In addition, you can integrate your meshes with GIS and engineering data to enable the intuitive search, navigation, visualization, and animation of that information within the visual context of the mesh. These meshes are rich, 3D scalable models of the real-world created with Bentley?s reality modeling software, ContextCapture.
Work with raster images
Raster images in the form of aerial imagery, binary imagery, and raster digital elevation models (DEM) are fully supported in Descartes. It is a comprehensive image management environment with conversion (raster to vector and vector to raster), cleanup, and editing tools that extend the MicroStation raster management tools.
Better evaluate and work with point clouds
Point clouds can be enriched, segmented, and classified and combined with engineering models. You can then leverage Descartes? capabilities for advanced 3D modeling, cross sectioning, breaklines, and ground extraction to quickly and efficiently model as-built conditions and support the design process. You can better evaluate point clouds and produce more accurate engineering models as a result. Animations and renderings for presentation can also be produced.
Produce and work with large, scalable terrain models
You can produce very large scalable terrain models from many sources including point clouds, breaklines, raster digital elevation models, and existing triangulated irregular networks. Scalable terrain models are synchronized with the original data sources to remain up to date. This allows you to have a global, current, and integrated representation of all your data to perform analyses using a variety of display modes and to produce animations and visualizations.
Ensure interoperability to improve production
With support for a wide range of reality modeling and engineering data types, you can take full advantage of your investment in existing data and get a more complete integrated view of your information. You can also streamline the production of deliverables in most standard industry formats for use in other applications.
Powerful reality modeling data process application
Work with all data types, regardless of size, in a single product. With Bentley Descartes, Bentley?s reality modeling data processing software, you can integrate point clouds, reality meshes, scalable terrain models, and raster imagery into your infrastructure workflows.
Reality Mesh Support
- Display of very large, phototextured reality meshes produced using ContextCapture
- Editing of meshes (remove facets, fill holes)
- Automatic ground extraction
- Breakline extraction
- Efficient 3D modeling by using sections and templates
- Mesh classification to enrich mesh with data from many sources
- Orthoimage extraction on any axis
- Generation and manipulation of cross sections
- Production of 3D PDFs and iModels
- Tools? support of streamed reality meshes
Raster Image Processing
- Fast display and management of large raster images
- Vector to raster conversion
- Raster to vector conversion
- Retouch color raster images
- Cleanup binary raster images
- Register raster images
- Manage display of raster mosaics
- Generation of orthophotos
- Thematic display of Digital Elevation Models
Point-cloud Processing
- Fast display and visualization of billions of points
- Drape and snap elements
- Classification editing
- Smart Snap
- Batch tile export
- Pointools, POD, LAS, and XYZ file export
- Extraction of planar and cylindrical elements
- Linear feature extraction
- Re-color points for flexible presentation
- Class management for any type of presentation style
- Definition of custom classes
- Point-cloud colorization from orthophotos
- Clip and section manager
- Support of geographic coordinate systems
Scalable Terrain Modeling
- Creation of scalable terrain models (STMs)
- High-performance display of very large digital terrain models (DTMs)
- Display modes for smooth shading, smooth shading with shadows, aspect angle, elevation, slope, contours
- High-resolution image draping on STM
- STM update and synchronization with DGN files, civil DTMs, point-cloud data, and XYZ files
- Calculate view shed from point or path
Raster Data Interoperability
- ECW (unlimited), PDF, IMG, JPEG 2000, BIL, DOQ, FLI, SPOT CAP, and Digital Image Map
- TIFF (1-to 32-bit), GEOTIFF, iTIFF, COT, CIT, RLE, CALS, PCX, IMG, BUM, TG4, INT, RGB, TGA, JPEG, RLC, RS, HMR, BMP, and IKONOS 3 (Red), and 4 (NIR) bands from GeoEye
- Compression schemes: Deflate, Pack-Bits, CCITT3, CCITT4
- Support for lossless compression formats: ECW, MrSID, and JPEG 2000
Visualization
- Image draping on DTM
- MicroStation-based rendering
- Real-life textures
- Lighting effects
- Elevation and perspectives
- Creation of fly-throughs and animations
- Creation of 3D PDFs
- Support for engineering data, point cloud, reality meshes
- Seamless integration with LumenRT for real-time, immersive presentations
- Support for traffic animation
- Solar and shading analysis
- Thematic visualization of elements based on height, slope, and aspect angle
Processor
Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon-based processor 2.0 GHz or greater
Operating System
Windows 10 (64 bit) ? Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education
Windows 8 (64 bit) ? Standard, Pro, and Enterprise
Windows 8.1 (64 bit) ? Standard, Pro, and Enterprise
Windows 7 SP1 (64 bit) ? Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
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4 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended, (more memory typically results in better performance)
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10 GB minimum free disk space
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A Perpetual License is bought outright and owned indefinitely. You pay once, then pay an annual SELECT maintenance fee to keep your software updated and supported. It’s a shared network license, so it isn’t tied to one user.
An Annual Subscription is a 12-month subscription license you renew each year. It’s assigned to a named user and can be re-assigned every 30 days. Lower upfront cost, but access ends if you don’t renew.
In short: a Perpetual License is buying the software, while an Annual Subscription is renting access for the year.
It comes down to how long and how often you plan to use the software:
Choose an Annual Subscription if you want a lower upfront cost and no long-term commitment.
Choose a Perpetual License if you plan to use the software for many years. It is usually the cheapest option over the long run (around seven years or more).
Choose a Cloud Service Subscription if your usage is occasional or short-term and you want maximum flexibility. Keep in mind that CSS is charged at a premium rate, so it is not the most cost-effective choice if you use the same software regularly.
If you are not sure, just ask us. We will look at how your team works and recommend the option that saves you the most money.
It is simple and there is no disruption. Your software, your licenses, and your data all stay exactly as they are within your Bentley Account. The only thing that changes is who looks after you. CAD Journey can act as your dedicated partner for support, licenses, training, and advice. There is no cost and nothing changes.
Every license includes access to all the latest software features and updates, along with round-the-clock technical support. As a CAD Journey client, you also have our team of Bentley experts as your first point of contact for any question. Annual Subscriptions go a step further and include free one-on-one training and mentoring hours to help your team get up to speed.
Here is what to expect after you order:
1. Within 24 hours, your licenses are fulfilled and added to your account, ready to assign.
2. Within 48 hours, one of our Customer Success Managers reaches out to make sure you are set up and everything is working as it should.
From there, the main steps are registering each team member, assigning a license to each one, and having everyone install the software and sign in. We will walk you through all of it, or we can simply take care of the setup for you.
The CONNECTION Client is a small free app that sits on each user’s computer. Users sign in to it with their account, and that sign-in is what activates the software. It is also where users download updates and check which licenses they have. There are no activation keys or serial numbers to manage anymore, so signing in is all that is needed.
The administrator is the person who can manage users and assign licenses for your organization. You can also set up co-administrators so more than one person can help manage the account. This is useful if your IT team handles software, or if you want a backup for when the main administrator is away. We can help you set up the right people with the right access.
It depends on the license type:
– Annual Subscriptions are assigned to a named user, so you need one for each person who uses the software.
– Perpetual Licenses work as a shared pool, so they can be used across your team without being tied to one person.
If you are not sure how many licenses you need, we are happy to work it out with you.
Once users are registered your license administrator can begin assigning licenses.
1. Sign in to your license portal at connect.bentley.com.
2. Open the License Management area.
3. Choose the product and assign it to the user you want.
The user gets a confirmation email and can start using the software right away. If you get stuck at any point, just reach out and we will jump in.
New people first need to be registered as a user on your account before they can be given a license. An administrator can add them by entering their name and work email, and then assign a license to them. If you would prefer, send us the details and we will add and assign your new starters for you.
Yes, a practitioner license can be re-assigned as many times as needed on the first day it is assigned to a user.
After the initial 24-hour assignment period, the license will be locked for 30 days. At the end of the 30 day period the license will be available for re-assignment.
Any re-assignment will restart the 24-hour assignment clock, and will be followed by the 30 day assignment lock.
No. Software now activates through a simple sign-in. As long as a user is registered, has a license assigned, and signs in to the CONNECTION Client, the software will run. There are no keys to track or share.
SELECT is Bentley’s maintenance program for perpetual license holders. It gives you access to the latest software version, technical support, and license portability across devices. Without the SELECT program you can only utilize the version you purchased and lose access to updates. For most active users, SELECT is a requirement and letting it lapse can create complications as versions evolve.
Annual subscription users will lose access at the end of the term if they do not renew. The CAD Journey team will flag your upcoming renewals well in advance so that you’re never caught off guard.