- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Automatically create accurate documentation and details
- Easily produce detailing such as stairs, handrails, ladders, and circular stairs
- Automatically receive 2D drawings from your 3D model, including bills of materials, NC data, and PPS data
- Eliminate duplication of effort through integration with Bentley products as well as third-party products
ProStructures
Steel and concrete design software
Including 5 training credits
Better designs with parametric structural components
ProStructures is comprehensive steel and concrete design software that delivers parametric structural components to increase your productivity and profitability. You can create and automatically update 3D models of structural steel, metal work, and reinforced concrete structures.?ProStructures includes ProSteel and ProConcrete.
Intuitively model parametric concrete structures
Model parametric reinforced concrete objects of any shape, with any combination of reinforcing. You can easily create concrete structures for a variety of industries such as building, plant, civil, and bridges. You can reduce documentation production time and eliminate errors and design flaws. Quickly create accurate 3D models, placement drawings, fabrication details, bar bending schedules, concrete quantity, and material reports with automatic updates to reflect model changes.
Produce high-quality steel detailing and fabrication designs
Efficiently and accurately develop models and documentation for steel structures. Confidently deliver an intuitive 3D modeling system that is perfectly suited to layout complex steel structures and extract engineering, fabrication, and erection drawings with automatic updates whenever the 3D model is changed. Produce drawings for every steel shape, connection, and plate-work from the 3D model. Additionally, you can generate and update in-drawing, external reports, and bills of material.
Design to international standards
Extend the reach of your business practice and take advantage of global design opportunities by using a wide range of international standards and specifications in our design products. Complete your designs with confidence thanks to extensive support of international standards.
Model parametric structures
Model structural members such as beams, columns, braces, steel connections, footings, foundations, and rebar. Apply steel connections between beams and columns, updating size changes automatically. Member types are also parametric for assemblies such as stairs, ladders, and handrails.
Produce design and construction documentation
Produce construction documentation such as plans, sections, and details, all automatically linked to the 3D model. Easily manage changes and revisions to the model with automated flags on drawings that need to be reissued. Generate structural design documents including necessary plans and elevations that are used to convey the design intent. Changes made to the 3D model are automatically updated in the documentation.
Share structural models
Transfer structural model geometry and design results from one application to another and synchronize changes over time. Quickly share the structural model, drawings, and information with the entire team for review.
Track and rollback structural design changes
Manage design changes made to the 3D model, tracking revisions with optional descriptions and timestamps. At any time during the project, selected changes can be rolled back or undone. Explore multiple design scenarios, as well as recover quickly from modeling errors.
Utilize international section profiles
Complete your structural model using a vast array of international section profile databases, which are included at no extra charge. Take advantage of global design opportunities around the world.
Industry leading structural steel modeling
- More than 300 national and international shape tables and any number of user definable shapes
- Standard parametric connections are included and easily modified. Some of the connections include: end plate, base plate, web angle, shear plate, splice joint, haunch, stiffener, and purlin connection
- Element modification capabilities such as drill holes, bolts, notches, polycuts, and diagonal cuts
- Structural parametric objects for quick modeling, including: staircase towers, handrails, ladders, bracing, portal frames, wall claddings, purlin systems, truss/lattice girders, platforms round and rectangular, and walkways
- Templates and Styles ? Recorded settings for sharing and maintaining standards in all the dialog boxes
- Provides intuitive capabilities for plate construction that are applied to many industries, including mining
World-class steel documentation
- Quickly extract fabrication, erection, and general arrangement drawings
- Automatically update drawings based on changes to the 3D model
- Customize drawing output based on user-defined detail styles and preferences
- Generate parts lists and bills of material (BOM) in single or batch process
Interoperability
- Provides integrated capabilities, minimizes duplication between various software platforms and easily investigate alternative designs.
- Easily collaborate with other disciplines by sharing and referencing project information
- Output in many file formats such as IFC, ISM, iModels, and 3D PDF
- Integrate with Bentley and third-party software: STAAD, RAM, SDNF 2/SDNF 3, CIS/2 (CIMSTEEL), SCIA ESA-PT, Dlubal RSTAB, KISS, DSTV-NC, and DSTV-PPS
- Detail output to CNC machines automates the steel fabrication process
- Interfaces to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
Integrate modeling and documentation workflows
- Support for ProjectWise Managed Workspaces
- Share personal files including iModels and 3D PDFs directly from your desktop
- Review project details and status, and gain visibility into project performance
- Access personalized learning, communities, and project information
- Coordinate work and share information with real-time project visibility
Parametric reinforced concrete modeling
- Support for multiple national and international codes
- Use standard parametric and easily modified reinforced concrete objects like beams, columns, slabs, footings, and walls with their respective reinforcement
- Intuitive modification capabilities allow you to model openings and adjust reinforcement. Specific opening reinforcement capabilities enable quick additional reinforcement modeling
- Model rebar of any shape and complexity with user reinforcement capabilities
- Face based rebar modeling updates user reinforcement when concrete shape changes by constraining reinforcement to concrete faces and edges
- Templates and Styles ? Recorded settings for sharing and maintaining standards in all the dialog boxes
Documentation
- Quickly extract fabrication, placing, and general arrangement drawings
- Automatically update drawings based on changes to the 3D model
- Customize drawing output based on user-defined detail styles and preferences
- Generate bar bending schedules and bills of material (BOM) in single or batch process
Interoperability
- Provides integrated capabilities, minimizes duplication among various software platforms, and easily investigates alternative designs
- Reinforce existing concrete models from applications like OpenBuilding Designer, OpenBridge, and MicroStation
- Easily collaborate with other disciplines by sharing and referencing project information
- Output in many file formats such as IFC, ISM, iModels, and 3D PDF
- Interfaces to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
Integrate modeling and documentation workflows
- Support for ProjectWise Managed Workspaces
- Share personal files including iModels and 3D PDFs directly from your desktop
- Review project details and status, and gain visibility into project performance
- Access personalized learning, communities, and project information
- Coordinate work and share information with real-time project visibility
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4 GB available RAM minimum| 16 GB recommended
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9 GB free disk space (which includes the install footprint for a complete installation)
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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.