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Bentley Smart Geometry 2008: Designing on the Platform

Bentley Systems has been supporting the Smart Geometry group for about 6 years. The new Generative Components software, released to production recently and now available worldwide is unique. Over the last 4 days here in Munich, a group of talented individuals including top students, professors and leading design professionals from business, have been working on projects using Generative Components.

This group was selected from an original group of 600 who were later chosen based on their project submission applications and totalled 200. From these submissions, 110 people attended Smart Geometry 2008 and have been working on their projects for the last few days. Their projects will be presented this week. As a member of the press, I can tell you from those I have seen, there are some amazingly talented individuals and projects to be presented. I'll talk in more detail on them once they are. Some are confidential and cannot be written about because they are actual problems searching for a design solution somewhere around the world, but others I'll be able to explore more closely later.

At this time Generative Components is being directed primarily toward architect and design professionals. The demands of these people in terms of their design functions in a software have driven development of Generative Components over time - it is easy to see how, when viewing the projects and listening to the tutor's as they interact with students.

Generative Components will be bundled with Microstation. If you have ever listened to Keith or Greg Bentley speak about Microstation, you will know that it is the company platform, is highly backward compatible (works with any previous version drawing), and extends across the entire Bentley product line. The is a major benefit to this software, because now it does to Generative Components too. This has major (and significant) importance going forward. Why? The simplest, and easiest way to explain is: all drawings and maps, as well as civil engineering designs are based on geometry.

While we are talking about Architectural Geometry at the moment, the value of Generative Components will later reach into road design, water pipelines, telcoms and a host of other applications. I'll explain more on these later.

For now, it is important to recognise that Generative Components brings the design, manufacture and construction processes together in an integrated way, a way that will change how AEC can be achieved with significant benefits in time saving, communication and freedom to design and create.

I'll be posting later today on some of these projects.

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