Bentley Systems, Incorporated today unveiled ProjectWise
Navigator, the first visual collaboration client for design review and
analysis plus work packaging that fully supports iterative workflows
and reuse of all content throughout the process. This new desktop tool
complements the ProjectWise system of collaboration servers, which is
already used by nine of the top ten ENR 500 design firms to connect
people and information across their distributed enterprises.
Commenting on the new release, Buddy Cleveland, senior vice
president, Bentley Software, said, "Many users complain that ordinary
design review tools limit the use of their content through conversion
prior to review and analysis. This results in a scattering of design
snapshots that can't be put together and content reused.
"With ProjectWise Navigator, project team members can review and
enrich original 2D and 3D design content assembled from their choice
of hundreds of applications and file stores. This promotes full design
collaboration within an iterative workflow and always cycles the
enriched content back to the design team."
ProjectWise Navigator provides powerful collaboration and
enrichment capabilities across all lifecycle stages, including:
1. Reviewing projects and designs in an immersive and visual
environment
2. Analyzing and simulating construction schedules and assessing
buildability
3. Producing intelligent, portable, and linked work packages for
construction and operations
ProjectWise Navigator can also operate in a managed environment in
conjunction with ProjectWise collaboration servers. The result is an
integrated, connected, secure, and versatile visual collaboration
system for successfully reviewing design iteratively across
distributed enterprises. Additional capabilities this provides
include:
1. Check-in/check-out transactions for secure work share
2. Audit trail creation for insight into who did what and when
3. Full text and component indexing for cross-enterprise searching
4. Local Caching Servers for rapid LAN-like content access
5. Automated and scheduled processing for printing and publishing
Cleveland added, "Up to now, reviewing project content has been
difficult because there was no single tool available to assemble it
all in one place. With the release of ProjectWise Navigator, Bentley
brings such a tool to market. Now, everyone involved in infrastructure
projects can easily assemble, review, enrich, and analyze original
design content for visual collaboration and can produce work packages
in support of critical construction and operations activities."
ProjectWise Navigator includes many innovations by MicroStation to
provide support for a broad range of applications, industry standards,
and file formats. Some of the 2D/3D file formats and supported
applications include DGN, DWG, PDF, AutoPLANT, TriForma, PlantSpace,
PDS, Google SketchUp, Google Earth(TM), IGES, STEP, JPEG, TIFF, and
3DS. In total, ProjectWise Navigator can access 2D and 3D project
content from hundreds of AEC and infrastructure design applications.
ProjectWise Navigator is licensed with a ProjectWise Named User
license. The ProjectWise Named User license also grants the same user
client-side access to all other ProjectWise clients, to ProjectWise
StartPoint, and to all server-licensed instances of ProjectWise
Integration Server and ProjectWise Plot Server.
A demonstration being featured this week at daratechPLANT shows
how ProjectWise Navigator allows disparate parts of the overall design
- in this demo, a site mainly modeled in PlantSpace, a skid unit
modeled in PDS, and a power plant section modeled in AutoPLANT - to be
assembled and visually reviewed for fit, clashes, and
constructability. The assembled view also allows work that involves
the entire plant - for example, inspection and maintenance operations,
reviewing site security, or placing scaffolding throughout the site -
to be efficiently packaged for bidding by contractors. Also during the
demonstration, a ruggedized tablet PC, connected to the workstation by
wireless networking, is shown accessing a live video camera through a
link in ProjectWise Navigator, highlighting its flexibility and
portability.
About ProjectWise
The ProjectWise collaboration system is used by the global design
elite. Nine of the top ten design firms in the ENR 500 and seven of
the top ten design firms in the ENR Global 150 use ProjectWise to
successfully deliver AEC and infrastructure projects and to manage
geospatially referenced content.
For more information on Bentley's ProjectWise Navigator, visit
www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/ProjectWise+Navigator.
About Bentley
Bentley Systems, Incorporated provides software for the lifecycle
of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio
for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial verticals spans
architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. With
revenues now surpassing $400 million annually, and more than 2000
colleagues around the world, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC
software to the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms and major
owner-operators and was named the world's No. 2 provider of
GIS/geospatial software solutions in a recent Daratech research study.
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Server, ProjectWise Plot Server, and ProjectWise StartPoint are either
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