Plant Drawings from 3D Model, Saving
Time and Money
Reduces
Drawing Output Times from Hours to Minutes
November 2, 2014 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company
dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, recently announced
the immediate availability of Bentley OpenPlant
Orthographics Manager V8i for the
automatic extraction and production of high-quality general arrangement (GA) plant
drawings from a 3D model. This newest addition to the Bentley OpenPlant family of products reduces
the time required to output single- and double-line drawings, including all annotations,
dimensions, and label placements, from hours to minutes.
The benefits of Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i to
engineering, procurement, and construction contractors, owner-operators,
and others – in industries ranging from oil and gas to power generation,
manufacturing, and marine – include:
·
increased productivity, with designers spending less
time on manual drawing production and more time on their primary job;
·
a reduced potential for errors in drawings, speeding
review times;
·
the ability to ensure annotations, dimensioning, and
labels are located in a free space, enhancing readability and reducing markups
and drawing rework;
·
integration with Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration services, enabling
designers to easily and securely share drawings and other files across even
globally dispersed projects, saving time and overall costs.
Ken Adamson, Bentley vice president, plant products, said, “With the addition of Orthographics Manager to OpenPlant – Bentley’s collaborative BIM advancement for the
multi-discipline engineering of chemical, petrochemical, food, water and
wastewater, and other process plants – we address the ongoing need in
many industry sectors to create and deliver drawings for construction,
operations and maintenance, and more. The new software automates this typically
labor-intensive production process, enhancing the quality and accelerating the
delivery of these documents to help keep projects on schedule. At the same
time, through OpenPlant’s inherent interoperability,
users of Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i have the additional option of managing
and distributing drawing files through ProjectWise,
making drawing information securely available for everyone to quickly find and share,
anytime, anywhere.”
John Bender, IT
director, Lindab Incorporated, said, “Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager appears to be very conducive to our present
practices. Labels require little or no adjustments. The new label options, with
in-line leader and side line frame, look promising and will do a great job of
stacking labels when required. We believe that Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager will be a valuable tool for
automating our drawing process.”
For additional
information:
About Bentley OpenPlant
OpenPlant
is Bentley’s emerging pacesetter to deliver collaborative BIM
advancement for multi-discipline engineering of process plants. OpenPlant is being widely adopted by leading
plant engineering, procurement, and construction contractors and
owner-operators, who have confirmed it as the most practical system to support
plant design, engineering, construction, and operations – in terms of fastest
return on investment – and the most scalable. Through its use of iRING/ISO
15926 as an intrinsic data model, OpenPlant enables users to coordinate
and share information across multiple disciplines and the infrastructure
lifecycle. For additional information about Bentley
OpenPlant, click here.
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems is the global leader dedicated to providing
architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and
owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and
operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility
across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver
better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to
deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve
intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and
comprehensive managed services.
Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in
over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2006
has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.
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