Is the POD creator discontinued?
Hi Oto,
Yes the PODcreator about a year ago
Answer Verified By: Oto
That is bad. It was excellent tool to get users addicted to Bentley products.
I agree, the good thing about pod creator was you could convert a whole bunch of clouds in the background and keep using MicroStation while the conversion was running. You could also run a bunch of clouds without consuming a MicroStation license.
Also I do not see any notice that this tool is going to be retired just tried to show user how easy is to convert LAS to POD and he reports that link is broken. There was some additional options for conversion which are not available in Microstation, like setting no compression and merging clouds.
And here goes the first workflow where this tool is needed. If working with Conceptstation it allows to create 3SM terrain from POD only so if LAS or E57 is available users are out of luck. Conceptstation as product does not require prior knowledge of Microstation so not expected to have it. This should be reconsidered or at least Bentley View could contain POD conversion.