It has undoubtedly been a tough year but Greg Bentley remained upbeat about the opportunities for the Infrastructure market and the company. Twenty-five years later and, from the event’s news, Bentley looks set to keep gong strong.
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The company’s key product is still MicroStation, which has undergone continual development since its inception in 1986 and has grown from being a 2D drawing system to a full 3D modelling tool used to prototype everything from the most complex signature architect’s buildings to bridges and massive road and rail networks. To cater to its customers Bentley has established the most extensive back office system out of any of the CAD vendors, having a server-based access to and distribution of software, training and support, as well as offering flexible licenses to mix and match product sets as and when required. Greg Bentley, CEO, left, and Keith Bentley, CTO, were on hand to host attendees, as well as to celebrate 25 years of MicroStation, DGN and Bentley Systems.
Bentley started out with brothers Keith and Barry Bentley developing a package they called PseudoStation to allow users of Intergraph’s VAX systems to view and modify their designs on general-purpose workstations. This is a major milestone, especially when the Bentley’s reminded us that the company has only changed the DGN file format once in its history - not, as Greg Bentley pointed out, multiple times like its competitors to drive sales. This year also happens to be Bentley Systems’ 25th anniversary. So instead of 3,000, we were just 300 but the hospitality and information was far from Spartan.
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This has impacted the majority of global infrastructure projects with the net result of losses, redundancies and Bentley’s customers imposing stringent travel restrictions inhibiting their ability to attend software jamborees.Īs an alternative, Bentley held a small, invite only event in Charlotte, North Carolina, in October, to deliver its keynotes and updates and host the gala evening for the company’s annual BE Inspired awards. These huge user events take years to organise and unfortunately the financial crisis struck during the planning stages for the 2009 event. Traditionally Bentley’s BE event attracts thousands of customers from around the world to hear the latest in design and management technology, attend classes, meet the programmers and have some quality social time. The 3D model supported creation of 2D and 3D drawings and the provision of accurate digital information to the steel supplier/fabricator. MicroStation and Bentley structural software provided the main interface to the custom application used to parametrically describe and manage the node connections. The team developed custom tools to manage the diagrid connection geometry, enabling it to create accurate physical and analytical 3D models of the structure. Morphing from a square base to a circular top, the building geometry posed a technical challenge for the structural engineering team. The exterior structural diagrid has 68 unique (432 total) joints at which six major members come together at a single point. The 112-storey Lotte Super Tower proposed for Seoul, South Korea, is a 550-metre-tall, mixed-use building with a steel diagrid structural system.
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