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Bentley Map V8i (SELECTseries 3) New Features At-a-Glance • Spatial Database and Web Services
Enhancements
– SQL Server Spatial Support
– Web Feature Service (WFS) client
– Redesign of Spatial Database interface
– Major Performance Enhancements
– Direct Data Access
• Accessing Millions of Rows directly
• Affecting all parts of the application working with attributes information
– Spatial Data Streaming
– Dynamic Domains support
– Attribute filtering at the class level
– Selective posting
• Mapping
– Scalable Terrain Model
– Redesign of Grid Generation tool
– Export Bentley Map Manager thematic to DGN
– Create Polygon Parallel
– Automatically create thematic map from template
• 3D GIS Enhancements
– 3D Geometry clean-up
– Solar Analysis
– CityGML Application Template
• Feature Engine Performance Enhancements
– New more efficient polygon type
– Better memory management
– Streamlined relationships support
• More API (including Direct Database Access)
• Coordinate systems
– Custom Datum/Ellipsoid Definition
– Coordinate read-out in any alternate coordinate systems
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Bentley Map Enterprise - Standalone
Bentley Map - Standalone or for MicroStation
Bentley Map PowerView - Standalone
Bentley Map
Assemble/ Integrate
Create Maps/Reports
Feature Modeling
3D Analysis/
Make Decisions
Mark-up/View/ Edit DGN/XFM
3D Modeling
Transform/
Edit Rasters
Cadastral Mapping Configuration
Advanced Map Finishing
3D Texturing
View Oracle
GeoRaster View Raster DEM
Advanced Interoperability
Edit Oracle Spatial
- Long
Transaction/Time
View Oracle Spatial
View Rasters
Edit Oracle Spatial - Short transaction
2D Analysis/ Make Decisions
Basic CAD tools
CAD tools
Advanced
CAD tools
Bentley Map PowerView
Functionality
Bentley Map
PowerView
and
Bentley Map
Functionality
GPS
Edit SQL Server Spatial
- Short transaction
View WMS/WFS
View SQL Server Spatial
Point Cloud Viewing
Advanced Point Cloud
Processing
3D Geometry Clean-
Up
Scalable Terrain
Model
Solar/Shadow
Analysis
Faster XFM Feature
engine API
Direct Database
Access API
Spatial Data Streaming API
Export Thematic Map Symbology
and Grid Generation
Edit /Create Custom
Coordinate Systems
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ProjectWise/Bentley Geospatial Server
Data Files Data Files
w/ Database Linkages Spatial
Documents Business
Documents Ancillary Files
w/ RDBWS Web
Services Proprietary
GIS Databases Enterprise
Data Stores
MicroStation/Bentley Map
Bentley Map PowerView
Bentley Map
Bentley Map Enterprise
Geo Web
Publisher
Civil Engineering Architecture Imaging Communication Utilities
Interoperability
Connectors
Enterprise
Connectors
Web
Clients
Architecture
Spatial Databases
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Spatial Data Streaming- SQL Server Spatial and Oracle Spatial • Connect directly to SQL
Server Spatial and Oracle Spatial
• Query, modify and post features
• Standard SQL Server and Oracle Spatial data - no required tables or columns
• Seamless access to spatial data at display time – faster display, more intuitive for the user
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Direct Access to Large Databases
• Query millions of rows quickly in the Data Browser
• Sort and filter records at database speeds
• Minimal memory required for very large databases
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Benefits - Direct Database Access
• Fast operation with very large databases
• Save time by not creating smaller project databases
• Reduce local machine memory requirements
• Reduce network traffic by sending only the data being viewed to the workstation
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Web Feature Service
• Access WFS sources through Internet
• All Bentley Map query and symbology options supported
• WFS features behave as any Bentley Map feature
– Annotate
– Thematic
– Analyze
– Query
– Report
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Benefits - Web Feature Service
• Take advantage of public WFS data
• Industry standard tool for spatial data access
• Enhances interoperability in multi-vendor installations
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Improved Grid Generation Tool
• Automatically create grids and graticules using Wizard
• Combine multiple grids and graticules in the same instance
• Alternate coordinate systems supported
• Grid automatically updated based on changes to grid definition
• Drop grid to simple elements
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3D Geometry Clean-up
• New tools to create valid solid models from existing geometry
• Correct and stitch surfaces
• Automatically fix some data errors
• Identify other data errors
• Extrude down to terrain
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Benefits - 3D Geometry Clean-up
• Produce complete solid models from existing 3D surfaces
• Reduce time remodeling existing data
• The models produced are suitable for storing in Oracle Spatial, texturing, etc.
• Move from visualization to GIS data
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Solar Analysis
• Calculates total solar exposure over a user defined time period
• Takes weather patterns into account
• Specify different solar intensity to take atmospheric conditions into account
• Produces shadow elements that can be used for further analysis or intersection with proposed building models
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Benefits - Solar Analysis
• Calculate total solar exposure to help locate solar panels
• Solar exposure provides a better indicator of sun on public lands than simple time-of-day shadow studies
• Shadow objects show precise shadow areas and, optionally, the color of the shading object to easily assess the effect of a new development on the surrounding area
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CityGML Application Template
• Bentley Map XFM model based on CityGML data model
• Supports all CityGML features
• Includes placement and promote tools
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Benefits - CityGML Application Template
• Create CityGML models from existing 3D models using Promote tools
• Placement methods to create certain components directly
• Standard Bentley Map format means interoperability with the supported GIS data types
• Support from FME for many other formats
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Scalable Terrain Models (STMs)
• High-performance display of digital terrain models (DTMs)
– very large areas
– billions of points
• View huge DTMs at geospatial scale
– City, Region, State, Country
• Potential users
– Municipal, State, and Federal government
– EPCs working in GIS
– Owner-operators working on large infrastructure projects
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Benefits - Scalable Terrain Models
• Use city and regional scale DTM, no requirement to extract project-size DTMs
• Full access to every point
• New workflows possible with large scale DTMs
• High resolution image draping for high quality visualization
• Easy synchronization with original terrain sources
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Point Cloud Processing
• Point Cloud Classification Editing
• Point Cloud Line Draping
• Point Cloud Advanced Export
• Point Cloud Geometry Extraction
• Point Cloud Visual Explorer
• Point Cloud Smart Snap
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• Dynamically re-color points in the cursor neighborhood based on their 3D location and a direction
• Improves user understanding of how the points are organized: – Are there points behind my cursor position?
– Are there points around the cursor almost at the same depth?
– Is the cursor snapping on the top or the bottom of this edge?
Visual Explorer
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• Enables better understanding of a 3D scene
• Enables simpler QA/QC of the point cloud data
• Enables better navigation of a 3D scene
• Provides faster and more accurate digitizing especially when combined with Smart Snap
Benefits – Visual Explorer
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• Smart Snap is a tool for picking key points such as the lowest, highest, average or median point along a user defined path. For example, find the peak line along a road centerline.
• Works in conjunction with AccuSnap and uses the point found by AccuSnap as the center of the search area.
Point Cloud Smart Snap
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• Fully integrated with MicroStation AccuSnap, it simplifies modeling with point clouds
• It enables: – Fast semi-automatic break line extraction
– Simple feedback on the particular point the tools are snapped on in the point cloud
– Easier distance measurement
– Faster digitizing by reducing the number of view rotations while working
Benefits – Smart Snap
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• Plane results – Planar 3D polygon
(convex hull)
• Cylinder results – Cylinder shell
– Cylinder centerline
– Cylinder centerline and radius
Plane and Cylinder extraction
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• Extract planar elements to build geometries of features – City furniture
– Building facades, roofs
• Extract planar elements to set ACS
Plane and Cylinder extraction – Usage
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• Automatically drape lines on point cloud surface
• Convert line approximation into lines following exactly the point cloud surface.
Draping on Point Cloud
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• Enables semi-automated geometry extraction from point cloud – For example
• Road profiles
• Transmission line cables
• Etc.
• Enables analysis of the extracted vector data using any Bentley Map tools
• Creates better terrain models by supporting the creation of break lines
Benefits – Point Cloud Draping
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Point Cloud – Snap Element
• Similar to drape element
• Select snap points based on snap settings
• Better selection of specified points
– Highest
– Lowest
– Median
– Etc
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• Automatically classified data has mistakes impacting break line extraction, terrain creation, shape extraction, etc.
• Hybrid workflows need a way to structure point cloud parts and hide portion of it
• Point clouds have noise – People, cars, land surveying hardware etc..
– False points (ex: laser crossing windows)
Classification Editing
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• Saves time and money by empowering users to fix simple mistakes not detected by automated processes
• Improves point cloud data quality by improving the classification thereby adding value to existing data
• Generates better results out of the point cloud (terrain, shapes, etc)
• Facilitates hybrid workflows combining point cloud and vector based data
Benefits – Classification Editing
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• Exports selected point clouds into a series of files according to a defined set of polygons or 3D volumes.
Point Cloud Tiled Export
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• Splits large point clouds into smaller pieces
• Makes large datasets more manageable for 3rd party software having less capacity than MicroStation
Benefits - Point Cloud Tiled Export
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• Exporting to LAS files – LAS is a well known standard in point cloud world
• Exporting to LAS, XYZ, or POD files in multiple tiles – User can specify a 3D “Grid” to define the extent of the
exported files
– Easily split large datasets in smaller files for easier handling in other software or for easier distribution on a network
More file format support
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• New APIs to support new functionality
– Direct spatial database access
• Provides better integration between MicroStation and Bentley Map models
• Point Cloud API
API
VBA Visual Studio.
Net COM MDL
C#
C++
(managed)
Visual Basic
.NET
MicroStation
.NET Addins
Visual C++
Visual Basic
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word etc…)
XFT Object Library
Native C/C++ (unmanaged)
XFM Native C API
MDL Interpreted Code (not
recommended)
MicroStation Object Library
XFT Object Library
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Export Bentley Map Data to DGN
• Allows the export of data from inside the Map Manager using the currently defined symbology
• Creates standard DGN elements (no attributes)
• Elements can be used in any CAD based workflows as the Bentley Map features are decomposed into their constituent base elements
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• More speed improvements – Spatial Data Streaming, Direct Database Access, improved polygon
handling
• More interoperability – SQL Server Spatial, WFS, enhanced MicroStation integration,
streamlined interoperability interface
• New fundamental data types – Point Cloud – Scalable Terrain Model
• More tools – Alternate coordinate readout, improved grids and graticules, datum
and ellipsoid editing
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