Overview of software advancement for engineers and architects

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Noah Eckhouse, Bentley Systems

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Three Themes
1) What’s the new “it” thing?
2) A dollop of industry prognostication
3) One business idea

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Congrats!

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… Risks
++ Tough Choices * Vision
________________________
= Courage of your convictions

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Let’s Start with the FUN Stuff

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First Came Design…

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Then “Design Intent”…

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Now: Design in Context!

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Now: Design in Context!

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And not just Pictures…

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…But Models!

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Acute3D Technology Breakthroughs
Can automate the generation of
high-resolution, fully-3D
representations from digital
photographs
Taken with any camera, whether
embedded in a smartphone…

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Acute3D Technology Breakthroughs
… mounted on a drone…

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… or a highly specialized,
multi-directional photograph
acquisition systems.
Acute3D Technology Breakthroughs

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ContextCapture | From Sites to Cities
• Automatically produces a 3D ‘reality mesh’
from photographs–intrinsically in the same
geometric idiom as engineering models,
readily aligning the real-world context.
• Existing conditions are considered
throughout the architecture, engineering,
construction, and operations of any
infrastructure asset

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Information Mobility
3D Mesh /
point cloud
BIM?
GIS / 3D Maps
CAD
3D Mesh /
Orthophoto /
DSM

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Information Mobility | MicroStation
POD
OBJ/
Collada

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Examples of 3D Models
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Infrastructure | Petrochemical Plant

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Urban Planning | Aligning Conceptual Design
With Reality

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Surveying | Building Conditions and Roof
Structures

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Surveying | Sewers

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Transportation | As-Built Structures Modeling

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Surveying | Stockpile Volume Measurement

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ContextCapture, in Action…

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ContextCapture, in Action

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Some Thoughts on the State of
our Industry

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Whose cloud is
it, anyway?

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The CONNECTED User
Application
Usage Tracking
Communities
RSS
Feeds
Personal
Playlists
Content
Passports &
Visas
Learning
Paths
& Transcripts
Service Ticket
Status
New Version
Notifications
Fix Download
Notifications
i-model
Notifications
Settings
Personal Dashboard

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The CONNECTED Project
Dashboards
Standards
Catalogs
Engineering Content
Management
Deliverables
Management
Playbooks

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The CONNECTED Enterprise
Dashboards
Standards
Catalogs

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CONNECTED Enterprises
ProjectWise
Sharing

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Introducing the CONNECT Edition

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Introducing the CONNECT Edition

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Let Me Leave You With a Few
Commercial Thoughts…

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Why?

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❖ 51 of the 76 attending
firms are Bentley users
❖ 2.2M hours logged
❖ Across 5k distinct
machines (excluding
mobile use)

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#1:
Add Value

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High Value Hours vs. Lower Ones

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#2:
People

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#3:
Shop Smart

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Thinking Differently About
SW Procurement
Our Enterprise Subscribers
pay, on average, 1/3 less per
machine hour!
And use 3x the number of SW
titles…

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Hopefully we shared a few new ideas…
So, Thank You