Bring Reality Into Your Modeling
What Is Bentley Descartes?
When infrastructure projects require the conversion of legacy documents, Descartes helps you integrate all imagery in your engineering workflows. To integrate and process reality modeling data for information modeling workflows, you should have in mind Descartes.
Using Descartes, you can edit and clean up reality modeling data such as point clouds with billions of points, changing their classification, color and removing or editing points. Integrate any 2D or 3D imagery into your engineering workflows to make well-informed design decisions and improve the overall quality of your project. Easily model geometry from reality modeling data to extract break lines, paint lines, surfaces, planes, cylinder, and cylinder center lines. Descartes lets you create high-fidelity images to support precision mapping and engineering, and you can process raster images to add visualization and context to your infrastructure projects.
Reality Data Processing
Create geospatially enabled 2D and 3D drawings for infrastructure projects, and deliver them on time and on budget, even as project complexities and scale increase.
Advanced Processing For 3D Imagery
Produce faster/better documents ready to communicate your design intent. Documents are industry compliant so you can stamp designs with ease and confidence.
Large Scalable Terrain Models
A common environment connects your tools, data, and teams, so that you can reliably deliver on even the most demanding projects.
Bentley Descartes
- Work with all data types, regardless of size
- Use advanced modeling, clipping, and sectioning tools
- Extract ground and breaklines from reality meshes and point clouds
- Enrich, segment, and classify point clouds and combine them with engineering models
- Produce animations and renderings for presentations
User Quote
The swift creation of the model [using Bentley applications] has proven that during a global pandemic and lockdown, it is still possible to provide services that go above and beyond the expectations of our clients and stakeholders.
FEATURED USER STORIES
Khatib & Alami
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AEGEA
Brazil’s Largest 3D Sanitation Map (Digitalization Of Rio De Janeiro)
Leveraging ContextCapture and Bentley’s open modeling applications, Aegea processed a total of 156,000 drone-captured photos to generate a 3D reality mesh and digital twin across 13 Brazilian states.
Sydney Airport
Maps@SYD
OpenCities Map helped integrate several types of data, models, and documents from multiple systems, providing real-time collaboration and 3D viewing capabilities for planning, auditing, and facilities management.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Descartes is a very powerful application for integrating and processing reality modeling data such as reality meshes, point clouds, scalable terrain models, and raster data for use in your information modeling workflows and infrastructure projects.
The price of Bentley Descartes varies per region. While there are various types of licensing available, a common choice is the 12-month practitioner license offered through Bentley’s eStore. When you purchase through the eStore, you get a Virtuoso Subscription. This means you get the software and “Keys” (tokens) to redeem for customizable training, mentoring, and consulting services.
Processor
Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon-based processor 2.0 GHz or greater
Operating System
Windows 10 (64 bit) – Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education
Windows 8 (64 bit) – Standard, Pro, and Enterprise
Windows 8.1 (64 bit) – Standard, Pro, and Enterprise
Windows 7 SP1 (64 bit) – Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate
Memory
4 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended, (more memory typically results in better performance)
Disk Space
10 GB minimum free disk space
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