OpenBuildings Designer: BIM software that transforms your architectural vision into reality
Design innovative buildings faster!
With OpenBuildings Designer, you can design, analyze, document and visualize buildings of all types, forms and complexities. You effectively communicate design intent and lift the barriers between the different construction trades and geographically dispersed teams.
OpenBuildings Designer offers BIM advances that enable high performance buildings to be delivered more quickly and confidently; You have confidence in your design, workflow, tools and deliverables.
- Multi-disciplinary : Grâce à un ensemble partagé d’outils et de workflows BIM, la collaboration entre les architectes, les ingénieurs mécaniciens, électriciens et structurels est améliorée.
- Interoperability : You integrate data into various formats within your BIM model and work easily on projects of all sizes. The software is certified for IFC 2×3 and IFC 4.x BIM communication. It also generates the rich iModel format.
- Information-rich deliverables : You clearly communicate your design intent with reliable deliverables that you can easily customize.
- Unlimited design environment : Vous pouvez tout modéliser, en toute liberté, des bâtiments aux géométries et conceptions simples ou extrêmement complexes.
- Construction performance : Simulate buildings and plan the performance of the asset in real-life conditions quickly and accurately, to explore the different options for iterative refining.
Fonctionnalités clés d'OpenBuildings Designer
Analysis of the performance of a construction system
Optimize your design choices by simulating the performance of your BIM model in real-life conditions. Quickly identify the best solutions through accurate performance evaluation of the construction system. From the first steps, guide your decisions with conceptual energy analyses that provide key data: maximum loads, annual energy consumption, CO2 emissions and fuel costs.
Design MEP systems (mechanical, electrical, plumbing)
Design complex MEP systems to ensure high performance buildings. Model complete parametric systems, including air treatment, piping and piping. Also plan lighting, power supply, fire detection and other electrical subsystems accurately.
Collaboration of multidisciplinary teams
Benefit from an all-in-one solution of architectural, electrical, mechanical and structural design tools. Thanks to a unified design environment and optimized processes, your projects gain coordination. Integrated conflict detection facilitates resolution, while sharing annotations and documents between teams reduces the risk of errors.
Generate building documentation and reports
Generate reliable and high quality documents directly from your smart BIM models. Make sure your drawings are always up-to-date and accurately reflect your design by publishing views of the model. Connect specifications, engineering calculations and equipment documentation to models and designs to simplify construction operations.
Design buildings
Design and plan buildings or installations of all sizes, even the most complex, using advanced architecture tools. Produce consistent documentation directly from your BIM model. Easily generate floor plans, cuts, elevations and schedules for all architectural elements
Refine design alternatives
Design Building Structures
Model steel, concrete and wood structures, including walls, foundations, columns and other structural elements. Automatically generate plans, structural diagrams, cuts and elevations. Also integrate retail tools, such as application Prostructures Bentley Systems, for even more precise designs.
View building designs
OpenBuildings is the most flexible BIM application for large multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.
The OpenBuildings (MicroStation) CAD kernel is shared by most Bentley applications, making it highly versatile for geometry-intensive projects such as large infrastructure. It is easy to create a generic 3D CAD geometry like tunnel or road geometry, and to add data at a later stage to transform geometric models into real BIM models. The federated model system based on referenced DGNs is also very flexible and makes it easy to structure the work with OpenBuildings – like all other Bentley tools – for large teams. It can be used without problems not only on an EDMS system like that offered by Bentley (ProjectWise) but even on local systems like a server-based business network.
— Pedro M., OpenBuildings CONNECT Trainer – Master in BIM Metodology & Management
Licensing Options
Annual rental
The simple and efficient way to use software over a fixed period of 12 months.
The annual subscription includes a number of "keys" that can be exchanged for training or accompaniment (mentoring).
If necessary, beCAD can place an order for you. For this, contact us.
Perpetual licence
A perpetual license is a unique purchase, accompanied by an annual maintenance contract, called SELECT.
The SELECT contract offers maintenance for your perpetual licenses including various benefits:
- Floating licences
- Software updates
- Balancing the licensing portfolio
- Technical assistance 24/7, 365j/365
- CONNECT services
