- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Analyze steel and concrete bridges
- Model and design bridges
- Perform construction sequence investigation
- Easily manage project changes
- Integrate roadway geometry and topography
OpenBridge
Bridge design and analysis software
Including 5 training credits
Better bridges with true BrIM models
Leverage bridge information modeling (BrIM) with OpenBridge Designer. With the latest bridge technology and capabilities, you can efficiently model, design, and produce project deliverables in a dynamic, interactive, and parametrically-enabled environment. This single application supports all aspects of a detailed bridge design including terrain, roadways, access ramps, and other related infrastructure assets. With OpenBridge Designer?s model-centric methodology, users will be efficient and reliable when managing changes to construction documents, such as clash detection, roadway geometry, and bridge geometry. Meet project demands on time, every time.
Accelerate bridge performance using one application
OpenBridge Designer provides the workflows, toolsets, and flexibility necessary to deal with real-life design scenarios. The application adapts to virtually any bridge design and maintenance workflow and is suitable for any concrete strength, volume, weight, structural steel grade, and beam type. Use a single product to create an interoperable physical and analytical model for steel and concrete bridges, which can be utilized throughout the bridge?s lifecycle. Perform analysis, design, and load-rating all in one environment to directly exchange project information, including bridge geometry, materials, loads, pre-stressing strand patterns, shear reinforcement, cross-frames, diaphragms, and stiffeners, to improve decision making during design and construction.
Create intelligent models, mitigate risks, and perform construction sequence inspections
Produce intelligent, parametric models rich in engineering content for various bridge components, including concrete compressive strength, structural steel grade, standard beam designations, and more. You can reuse data from various stakeholders to ensure relevant, up-to-date geometry all within one model. Mitigate risk with conflict analysis by performing conflict analysis of bridge structures with existing infrastructure to eliminate errors prior to construction to save time and reduce costly rework. Additionally, easily perform construction sequence investigation by reviewing phases in stage-wise construction to compare results, detect relevant states, and produce result envelopes for evaluation to solve problems related to creep, shrinkage, and other issues before construction.
Model Concrete and Steel Bridges
You can model, design, and analyze concrete and steel bridges. Create interoperable physical and analytical models of both concrete and steel bridges. Streamline the modeling, analysis, design code checking, detailed design reports, and automated drawings for concrete bridges of all types while ensuring design codes are met. Ensure load-rates and optimize I-girder and tub-girder steel bridges using Finite Element Modeling and Response Spectrum Analysis.
Improve Collaboration
Collaborate across disciplines for analysis, design, detailing, documentation, construction engineering, and load rating. Access DGN models for highways alignments, profiles, and ground information, as well as LandXML files. If reference data changes, the parametric and rule-based bridge model responds automatically.
Produce Required Deliverables
Produce the deliverables needed for bridge design projects using a model-based design that centralizes data and accelerates the delivery of deliverables from a single application. Deliver plans, 3D design data, earthwork, reports, visualizations, BIM deliverables, and construction data to meet project requirements.
Enhance Visualization
Help project team members, stakeholders, and clients better understand the bridge project and design environment with 3D bridge models. Quickly verify bridge geometry and provide plan, elevation, and cross-section views. Measure vertical and horizontal clearances, view time-lapse construction animation, and perform clash detection. Use LumenRT to create stunning animations of the project.
Ease of Use
- Intelligent graphical user interface
- U.S. customary and metric (SI) units
- Comprehensive 3D physical bridge modeling
- 2D views, with dimensions using Dynamic Views
- User customizable libraries
- Variety of reporting formats
- Intuitive dialogue driven workflows
- Cross-section template for complex geometry
- Catalog of appurtenances
- Automated bridge creation (ABC wizard)
Intelligent Analysis and Design
Concrete Bridges
- Supports majority of everyday concrete bridges; precast, pre-stressed and post-tensioned concrete bridges
- Supports almost all common substructure types
- Supports AASHTO LRFD, LFD, LRFR, and design codes in Canada and India
- Supports LATAM and SEAN countries that use AASHTO code
- Strut-and-tie modeling (U.S. version)
- Single girder or whole-width analysis
- Thermal load analysis
- Prestress loss calculation by time-dependent specs (LFD and LRFD; CHBDC)
- Multimode response spectrum analysis for seismic design
Steel Bridges
- Supports majority of everyday steel bridges; straight and curved steel I-girder and tub-girder bridges
- Supports almost all common substructure types
- Supports AASHTO LRFD and LRFR codes
- Design optimization for I-girder and tub-girder members
- Line girder, grillage, and 3D finite element analysis
- Multimode response spectrum analysis for seismic design
- Deck placement sequence analysis
- Automatic dead load calculation for self-weight of girders, cross frames, concrete deck, and appurtenances
- User-defined dead load: uniform, trapezoidal, and point loads
- Automatic load case generation
Modeling and Visualization Capabilities
- Superstructure and substructure modeling
Bridge Types
- Precast prestressed concrete girder
- Cast-in-place and post-tensioned concrete box girder
- Cast-in-place and post-tensioned concrete T-beam
- Cast-in-place and post-tensioned concrete slab
- Steel I-girder
- Steel tub-girder
Bridge Components
- Deck slab
- Girders; steel ? rolled, built up I-girder or tub-girder, concrete ? precast I-girder, box, T-beam
- Abutments
- Piers: cap, column, footing, piles
- Variable columns and caps
- Wing walls
- Bearings and beam seats
- Light poles
- Crash barriers
- Medians
- Parametric, intelligent bridge components
- Intuitive, dialogue-driven workflows
- Rule-based and constraint-driven modeling
- Clash detection and clearances
- Solid and transparent views
- Lifelike rendering
- Reference roadway information and ground data
- Construction scheduling and animation using Navigator
Versatile Reporting Options
- Deck elevations report
- Beam-seat elevations report
- Material quantities report
- Cost estimate report
- Camber diagram
- Input Echo report
Formats:
- HTML
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
Automated Drawing Generation
- DGN and DWG drawings
- Plan and elevation drawings
- Bridge framing plans
- Precast, prestressed concrete girders
- Piers
Integration with Other Software
- Direct data exchange with MicroStation?, OpenRoads, OpenRail, InspectTech, ProStructures, gINT, and more
- AASHTO BRIDGEWare database
- File formats: DGN, DXF, XML, and LandXML
Processor
Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon-based processor 2.0 GHz or greater
Operating System
Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit)
Memory
8 GB minimum, 32 GB recommended
Video
1GB of video RAM or higher recommended
Disk Space
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.