Sharing digital components and connecting digital workflows across disciplines are the foundation of an open modeling environment
comprising MicroStation-based engineering and BIM applications specialized for certain asset types and solutions. The open modeling environment advances multidiscipline collaboration enabling multidiscipline clash resolution as well as the production of multidiscipline deliverables from any application.
Open has three meanings.
- • First, it signifies open to multiple disciplines.
- • Second, it means open to analysis and simulation. Using different applications, two different disciplines, for example, a geotechnical engineer and a structural engineer, can iterate on the same dataset in our open modeling environment, providing a ‘digital feedback loop’ and enhancing their collaboration across BIM workflows.
- • And third, because MicroStation technology underpins Open applications, users can produce multidiscipline deliverables and accomplish multidiscipline clash resolution from any Open application. Bentley’s open modeling environment is ‘Open’ for collaborative digital workflows.
Applications for analysis and simulation on the one hand can collaboratively and iteratively work with applications for design and modeling on the other, connecting operational workflows and converging the work of different disciplines. Collaborative digital workflows are characterized by data captured or created for one purpose being accessed and used by other applications for other purposes thereby saving time, minimizing rework, and improving data quality over the asset lifecycle.
CONNECT Edition enables project delivery through our open modeling environment, through MicroStation and our applications, and project collaboration through ProjectWise.