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OpenBuildings™ Designer Design in Reality Context
OpenBuildings Designer is a multidiscipline building
design application that enables BIM workflows to provide information-rich models for the design, analysis, simulation, and documentation of buildings. It incorporates OpenBuildings Designer computational design and energy services for building performance evaluation. OpenBuildings Designer immerses you in a 3D modeling environment and provides site content by referencing reality models. The application shares a catalog of design components across the project team. Built-in clash detection allows designers to coordinate building systems. The federated Design in context with reality models. data approach to modeling and drawing management allows Using OpenBuildings Designer computational design, design alternatives users to work on any size models simultaneously across can be efficiently explored embedding design intent with expressions and distributed geographies. constraint-driven geometry. This approach minimizes repetitive modeling work and improves the design quality by allowing engineers and architects The CONNECT Edition to evaluate more design alternatives. Integrated with energy services, you The SELECT® CONNECT Edition includes SELECT CONNECTservices, new can analyze the performance impact of your design alternatives. Built-in Azure-based services that provide comprehensive learning, mobility, and visualization allows you to evaluate materials and communicate the design collaboration benefits to every Bentley application subscriber. Adaptive to project stakeholders with renderings and movies. Learning Services helps users master use of Bentley applications through CONNECT Advisor, a new in-application service that provides contextual and Developed with Your Business Needs in Mind personalized learning. Personal Mobility Services provides unlimited access OpenBuildings Designer is a single application that handles a wide variety to Bentley apps, ensuring users have access to the right project information of complex design tasks with tools for architectural, structural, mechanical, when and where they need it. ProjectWise ® Connection Services allow users and electrical disciplines. The available companion features (i.e. Descartes) and to securely share application and project information, to manage and resolve companion applications (i.e. LumenRT and OpenSite® Designer) deliver a collection issues, and to create, send, and receive transmittals, submittals, and RFIs. of functionalities to work on projects of all types. These capabilities help to reduce the costs of application deployment, learning, and administration. Configurable to Your Project Workflows The application allows you to collaborate efficiently in a project environment OpenBuildings Designer is configurable to your existing project delivery with a dataset that distributes a shared library of building components and workflows, which ensures that you can meet client contract deliverable production standards. With Bentley’s federated data approach, you can work requirements. Using ProjectWise along with industry information exchange on and share models and drawings across geographically distributed teams standards enables collaboration and data sharing across all disciplines. while retaining discipline and responsibility. Using Bentley’s connected data The application provides you with the necessary workflows, toolsets, and environment® (CDE) based on ProjectWise, users can accomplish multidiscipline flexibility to address real-life design scenarios on all types of building and design coordination, produce multidiscipline deliverables, and reuse information infrastructure projects including commercial, industrial, transportation, educational, across the asset lifecycle from any open application. These capabilities allow governmental buildings and nontraditional buildings such as bridges and tunnels. you to employ the most qualified staff and optimize company resources. System Requirements OpenBuildings Designer At-A-Glance Processor Intel® or AMD® processor All Disciplines • Size ductwork based on air flow, velocity, and friction rate 1.0 GHz or greater • Start designing in 3D to explore ideas with free-form modeling • Export designs to Trimble’s FabShop for fabrication • Design in context with referenced reality models and point clouds Electrical Memory • Perform in-product clash detection 16 GB minimum, 32 GB recommended • Streamline lighting design using smart symbol arrangement tools • Produce lifelike renderings and movies that are aligned with ceiling grid and wall-mounted components Hard Disk • Apply company and project standards to models and drawings 24 GB free disk space • Design electrical circuits and associate with lighting, power, • Exchange data in common formats (i.e. IFC, COBie, RealDWG™, or fire protection panels Video Revit Family RFA, and SketchUp SKP) • Automatically label components with user-definable labeling 512 MB of video RAM or higher • Incorporate project documents, media, web links, and more formats for switch designation, circuit numbers, and device IDs is recommended with hypermodeling • Model cable trays, baskets, conduits, and wireways • Easily manage data with bidirectional editing in Microsoft Excel Screen Resolution • Evaluate lighting level with a bidirectional interface 1024 x 768 or higher • Share project information with iModels with Relux lighting analysis • Enforce production standards within a ProjectWise • Produce drawings and block diagrams, lighting, cable, managed environment and panel schedules based on user-definable templates • Accelerate skillset with access to personalized learning Find out about Bentley • Automate coordinated drawings by controlling drafting styles Computational Design at: www.bentley.com and annotations • Define objects, assembly relationships, and dimensional constraints to capture design intent to explore a broad range Contact Bentley Architectural of what-if scenarios 1-800-BENTLEY (1-800-236-8539) • Accelerate design with a catalog of walls, doors, windows, • Use visual programming techniques to create design solutions, Outside the US +1 610-458-5000 and furniture manage dependencies, and orchestrate behaviors between • Manage floor definitions for reference planes and floor groups Global Office Listings design objects • Define custom grid systems www.bentley.com/contact • Use mathematical statements to control geometry and define • Manage spaces to ensure compliance with owner’s requirements dependencies between design objects • Model custom design stairs and handrails • Create reusable geometric assemblies extending the range • Interactively design configurations of curtain walls of geometry with embedded intelligent behaviors Structural • Define input controls (i.e. sliders and law curves) to dynamically • Model detailed steel structures, trusses, bar joists, handrail, manipulate design components and propagate change within and ladder assemblies with ProSteel elements the design • Model concrete and timber structures • Play the design script forward and in reverse incrementally to • Reference a comprehensive library of international steel and visualize the design intent and behaviors of design relationships concrete shapes Energy Simulation • Produce quantity reports and volume and weight analyses • Perform whole building energy analysis with analytical • Share structural models and analysis using Bentley’s Integrated space models and conceptual mass models using Structural Modeling (ISM) technology industry-standard EnergyPlus • Exchange data with detailing applications using industry standards • Calculate design and satisfy building regulation requirements (i.e. CIS/2, and SDNF) using industry-standard building load calculation methods Mechanical (i.e. ASHRAE, PartL, and CIBSE) • Route multiple pipes simultaneously with different diameter, • Reference a catalog of predefined standard HVAC spacing, end type, insulation, and with manufacturer catalog system templates • Parametrically model HVAC, piping, and plumbing systems • Calculate daylight factors using industry-standard Radiance engine • Define components, paths, and angles to be modeled automatically • Model surrounding buildings to simulate the effect of their shade when completing connections in HVAC and piping systems on the design • Dynamically route pipe systems with slope applied or apply as • Create reports and charts for all aspects of building simulation a post process including heating and cooling loads, LEED compliance, annual • Create and configure air handling units using standard modules energy use, equipment sizing requirements, and CO2 emissions
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OpenBuildings Designer was used to design this multi-use OpenBuildings Designer was used on this mixed-use office residential tower. and hotel with boutique retail.
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