Architects and engineers want to quickly explore a broad range of "what-if" alternatives for even the most complex buildings and spend little time working on edits, deletions and re-modeling changes that will slow down the design cycle.

Working in Bentley’s GenerativeComponents, focus is shifted away from ordinary 3D and BIM modeling. Instead, the focus is on defining and capturing the concept of the design. Once the concept is defined, with its internal behavior and its external appearance, the designer may explore, understand, evaluate, adjust and scale the design in minutes rather than hours or days.

Interested to learn the essentials?

We have prepared these Onboarding Guide Videos for you.

Please, browse the left menu or the topics below:

• An Introduction to OpenBuildings GenerativeComponents
• GenerativeComponents 101: Creating a Massing Model
• GenerativeComponents 102: Creating a Stacking Model
• GenerativeComponents 103: Spaces and Grids
• GenerativeComponents 104: Creating Curved Slabs and Façades
• GenerativeComponents 105: Creating a User-Defined Node Type
• GenerativeComponents: Example Scripts

Parent topic: Computational Design Professionals