Bentley OpenBuildings 2024
Why OpenBuildings, more than BIM. The answer lies in the past name of the program - AECOsim. As a rule, all modern BIM solutions, which are positioned as complex, can be described with only three letters: AEC - architecture, engineering networks, construction. AECOsim also has functionality for operations, and in addition, OpenBuildings can easily combine a building project with large infrastructure projects within a single file.

9 reasons why you should work in OpenBuildings:
- Simplifying the design process
- Connecting existing reality
- Creating architectural solutions, structural solutions, and complex engineering systems
- Compatible with computational design
- Data management and reporting
- Comprehensive compatibility and interoperability
- Visualization
- CONNECT
- Perpetual licenses

With OpenBuildings you get a huge library of pre-designed 3D models of various architectural, structural and engineering components, as well as electrical symbols.

One of the most important parts of OpenBuildings modeling is that it has a collaborative workspace option. This is a workflow where different professionals can work on different parts of a project and then combine into one comprehensive project that will contain all the design and BIM data.

To analyze the project and adjust your decisions, especially in the early stages of the project when there is no data from adjacent parties, you can use reality modeling to create an exact digital replica of any object from a room to an entire city. The program can process point clouds, photographs, 3d photos, reality meshes.

Each element of the model can be provided with links that will refer either to drawings or to office documents such as Word, pdf, excel and others. Hypermodeling is a feature unique to Bentley's solution, which is based on Power-Platform technology that overlays drawings on the model.

OpenBuildings can integrate different file types: 3D Object file, Sketchup File, 3D Max file, Revit Family, DWG/DXF, gbXML (power analysis), 3dm - Rhino.

With Bentley's variety of solutions on the MicroStation platform, all professionals from GIS to PROJECTING, CONSTRUCTION, Roads and Bridges get interdisciplinary coordination with MicroStation's reference technology and its federated approach. Thus, the MicroStation platform and its dgn file format represent a common modeling environment. Over the lifetime of a project, a lot of data is created. Everyone involved in the project must have access to the right data at the right time in the right format.

OpenBuildings Speedikon is best-in-class building design and documentation software, empowering architects and design engineers to plan, analyze, and document buildings of varying sizes and complexity. It provides a high-quality, level-of-detail (LOD)-dependent representation suitable for diverse applications. The software features robust capabilities for seamless standardization and customization, ensuring flexibility in design processes. In addition, users gain access to the latest integrated version of MicroStation, providing the benefits of its advanced features.