CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 April 2012
Product News
Bentley’s Newly Released BoxGirder Module Extends Use of BridgeMaster Software to Broad Range of Bridge Types
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the release of its BoxGirder design module for BridgeMaster, the leading software in China for the fast and efficient automated production of bridge detailed drawings. BridgeMaster has a long track record of meeting even the most demanding Chinese engineering standards. The new BridgeMaster BoxGirder cast-in-place box girder design software further extends BridgeMaster’s modeling and design capabilities, focusing on the automatic design and drawing of modeling and bar detailing for a broad range of bridge types including highway bridges, urban overpasses, and rail bridges. By freeing bridge designers from heavy drawing work and enabling them to devote more time to schematic design, the BoxGirder module helps ensure the production of accurate and standards-compliant bridge designs while improving design workflows and efficiency.
Commenting on the new BridgeMaster BoxGirder module, Mr. Lu Zhuojun, IT director, Hunan Provincial Communications Planning, Survey & Design Institute, said, “The BridgeMaster BoxGirder module meets our needs to quickly and efficiently complete the modeling and bar detailing drawings for conventional constant-section or nonconventional variable-section box girders, while automatically generating engineering quantity statistics. It also provides outstanding interactive performance and greatly improves the efficiency of modeling scenarios for design iterations and changes.
“We have closely collaborated with the Bentley technical team in the development of this new software and will continue to do so to facilitate a steady stream of innovations going forward. This will enable us to better apply BridgeMaster BoxGirder’s enhanced modeling functionality in our design projects and empower our teams to efficiently design box girder bridges with even the most complex of structural arrangements.”
Mr. Yuan Guo Ping, Bentley director of BrIM Development, said, “Our new BridgeMaster BoxGirder module introduces bridge information modeling (BrIM). This will significantly enhance our BridgeMaster software product line by improving data interoperability in the modeling process and facilitating the flow of digital bridge engineering information among the planning, design, engineering, analysis, fabrication, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. BrIM enables bridge designers, builders, and owner-operators to easily share a common bridge information model, helping them optimize design decisions and leading to process innovation through information reuse. We look forward to incorporating BrIM innovations throughout the BridgeMaster product line.”
The new BridgeMaster BoxGirder module features advanced functionality that enables users to:
•efficiently complete the design model of constant-section or variable-section concrete box girders,
•generate general structural drawings, coordinates, reinforcing bar detailed drawings, and tendon detailed drawings of structures,
•generate engineering quantity statistics.
Among the many users of BridgeMaster software are:
•Hunan Provincial Communications Planning, Survey & Design Institute
•Guangxi Communications Planning, Survey & Design Institute
•Communications Design Institute of Jiangxi Province
•Shaanxi Provincial Highway Survey & Design Institute
•Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Communications Planning, Design & Research
•Hubei Provincial Communications Planning and Design Institute
•Guizhou Communications Planning, Survey & Design Academy
•China Railway Siyuan Survey & Design Group Co., Ltd.
•Guangdong Highway Design Institute
•Hebei Research Institute of Communications Survey & Design
•Henan Provincial Communications Planning, Survey & Design Institute
For additional information about the Bentley Bridge family, visit http://www.bentley.com/bridgedesign.
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