1. Hybrid Lidar (point clouds) and photo input in Reality Meshes. Merging of Pointools and Acute3d products. 2. LOD -aware meshes. Merging of Descartes Scalable Terrain Models (STM) and Acute3d in LumenRT and Mstn (.3sm). 3. Cloud-based processing ( ContextShare ) and access by mobile apps ( Navigator Web ). Merging with ProjectWise. Cesium-powered? 4. Using Mstn's Dynamic View tools to clip the Reality Mesh to a CAD geometric object, allowing attribute information to be attached ( Classification ). 5. Mstn Dynamic View sectioning tools would allow Mstn's Hypermodeling tools to be brought to bear. This will allow spatially indexed 2d information to be back-ref'd into the 3d model for information review and/or design. 6. Context Capture tools also allow photographic information to be spatially indexed and located in the 3d model. This would also open the way for photogrammetry tools like Phidias and the contractor's surveying/ photo point management, measurement and stakeout tools to be fully integrated into the Bentley platform. 7. Augmented reality : with all this media/info fusion, 3d overlayed, mashed up 'maps' or plans can be utilised on site in context.... accessed via ProjectWise? 8. Virtual reality: I suppose LumenRT will get a cloud-based processing service ... on ProjectWise like ContextCapture? Several really powerful functionalities merging together. 1. Photo, point cloud / laser, GPS information that combined raises the usability of the information beyond the sum of its parts. By bringing on to a single platform or Common Data / Modeling Environment, that is both CAD-engine based (not just game-engine based), the info is 'engineering-ready' and not just for show. Usable positioning information being at the forefront. Bentley Map should be able to captilise on this by offering a 3d photgraphic dimension to mapping and GIS landscape. It would be interesting to see if something like Trimble's Business Centre / Realworks will be implemented in Mstn... and licensed back to Trimble? 2. The new tools help bring together context capture with structured information in BIM models, enabled a graduated approach to enable efficient and targeted information modeling. Reality Meshes being a much more usable and informative medium compared to point clouds; especially if the accuracy of the point clouds can be transfered to the mesh information bearing the photographic information which enables the unstructure information to be read and understood. The LOD-managed, geo-referenced formats that support streaming would enable modeling apps like ConceptStation to operate within large models without sacrificing engineering accuracy. 3. The subsurface utilities experiments in AR also highlight the usefulness of combining modeled and captured information; in order to provide a window into unsurveyed areas, where we can only go by recorded design information. Subsurface utilities are important assets but can not be easily surveyed. I wonder if the next step will be AI generated 3d models based on scanned 2d drawing information. It would be good to see Bentley investing in the geotechnical sector like Maptek and Paradigm. Bentley has a bit of FEM expertise in its structural analysis apps, and some geotech apps like gINT. It also also has some water network modeling apps, SUDA and civils Pondpak stuff. At a lower level, it has gather a lot of mesh/point cloud mesh tech that could translate into the type of voxel / meshes that geotechnical modelers use? Extend the analytical modeling reach to the subsurface realm. Provide a unified design and analysis platform for all those roadway and tunneling/mining/blasting jobs that cutting through the mountains anywhere on the planet.
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