Bentley builds feature manager into new release of MicroStation Modeler; New product also boasts rendering accelerator and constraint tutor and goes into production today.CHICAGO, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 1996--Bentley Systems, Inc. today announced several new powerful capabilities for its MicroStation Modeler(TM) mechanical engineering software product. Specifically, a feature manager, the QuickVision(TM) rendering accelerator, and a constraint tutor top the updated list for this new version, which includes other already announced additions. The enhanced MicroStation Modeler will go into production today and will be demonstrated here at NDES NDES NARM Data Entry Sheet . The feature manager of MicroStation Modeler allows users to graphically view, edit, and manage the many features in a mechanical design. It is superior to other feature managers because it offers feature editing in both the feature manager or model windows, and a more powerful set of feature operations, including Boolean union and subtraction subtraction, fundamental operation of arithmetic; the inverse of addition. If a and b are real numbers (see number), then the number a−b is that number (called the difference) which when added to b (the subtractor) equals of feature trees and feature "re-ordering" with validity checking Routines in a data entry program that test the input for correct and reasonable conditions, such as account numbers falling within a range, numeric data being all digits, dates having a valid month, day and year, etc. . Peter Brooks Peter Brooks (born 1938) is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He is formerly Professor in the Department of English and School of Law at the University of Virginia. , director of mechanical engineering products at Bentley, comments, "Users clearly want help in managing features and their growing complexity. We advanced the pioneering concepts in this area and created an industrial strength feature manager for MicroStation Modeler." Brooks continues, "Add QuickVision, the constraint tutor, and the surface and solid integration tools of the new release and you get one of the more significant releases of late in mechanical engineering." Yoav Etiel, vice president of product marketing at Bentley, notes, "We are among the first, if not the first, to offer a feature manager in an existing, working mechanical engineering system. The combination makes feature management much more accessible and robust." Etiel adds, "We give the MicroStation Development Language (MDL MDL - (Originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. (TM)) full credit for enabling us to deliver the feature manager and the other new capabilities of MicroStation Modeler so quickly." QuickVision, detailed in a separate release, is a software rendering Performing the computations necessary to construct output for the printer or screen by following instructions in a program routine. Contrast with hardware rendering. See render. accelerator that offers spectacular 3D rendering performance. Rendering is so fast that users can perform virtually all design and viewing operations while in rendered mode. The new constraint tutor allows users to automatically convert existing or new sketches to constrained models. It facilitates top-down design A design technique that starts with the highest level of an idea and works its way down to the lowest level of detail. See top-down programming. (programming) top-down design - (Or "stepwise refinement"). , where details are added as they become available, and helps to upgrade old designs to new standards. Already announced new features of the upcoming version of MicroStation Modeler are its single engineering model, unified solid and surface design, associative cross sections and feature annotation, and the "Class of 95" capabilities inherited from MicroStation(R) 95, including AccuDraw(TM) (patent pending), and MicroStation BASIC. Pricing and Availability MicroStation Modeler supports a full set of PC and workstation hardware platforms including Windows(TM) 95, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows NT(TM), Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , HP RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , and DEC Alpha machines. MicroStation Modeler is priced at $5325, which includes the analysis and manufacturing integration capabilities of the product's single engineering model. As an upgrade to MicroStation 95, the product is $1650. For more information on MicroStation Modeler, MicroStation 95, or other MicroStation products, please contact Bentley at 1-800-BENTLEY, +1 610-458-5000 (US), +31 2356-85588 (Europe), +61 3-9699-8699 (Asia), via email at jen.mcwilliams@bentley.com, or through the World Wide Web at http://www.bentley.com/. More on the Single Engineering Model MicroStation Modeler provides a high level of integration with analysis and manufacturing packages. In fact, users can perform modeling, detailing, structural analysis, kinematics kinematics: see dynamics. kinematics Branch of physics concerned with the geometrically possible motion of a body or system of bodies, without consideration of the forces involved. , and manufacturing using a single engineering model and a single user interface. The single engineering model contains all the information needed for each process. Iterations take place quickly and efficiently in a tight loop with no need for data translation and no loss in data resolution. "Best-of-breed" mechanical applications now using the single engineering model of MicroStation Modeler include Structural Research & Analysis Corporation's COSMOS/M(R) DESIGNER II, for structural analysis; Baystate Technologies' DRAFT-PAK(R) Mechanical and Econocap Engineering's Ece-Mechanics for automated GD&T, standard parts generation, and bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. generation; D.P. Technology's ESPRIT/MS PowerFold for advanced flat pattern development; and ESPRIT/MS CAM for milling, turning, and wire EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management NC part programming; Mechanical Dynamic's ADAMS(R)/MS Motion and ADAMS/MS Mechanisms for simulating the motion of assemblies. More on Bentley Bentley Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in engineering software products, user services, and overall quality. The company now serves over 200,000 professionals in building/plant engineering, GeoEngineering, and mechanical engineering. Its MicroStation products are proven at over 70% of the largest U.S. engineering firms and are the software foundation behind the engineering of well-known buildings, airports, hospitals, highways, machines, bridges, and industrial plants throughout the world. Founded in 1984, Bentley has now become one of the world's fastest growing software companies. -0- MicroStation is a registered trademark; Bentley, MicroStation Modeler, QuickVision, MDL, and AccuDraw are trademarks of Bentley Systems, Inc. ADAMS is a registered trademark of Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. DRAFT-PAK is a registered trademark of Baystate Technologies, Inc. COSMOS/M is a registered trademark of Structural Research & Analysis Corporation. Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. 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