You can now select your preferred unit of measurement for PlantSight Visualizer. From your User icon, select User Settings, and then choose your preferred unit of measurement. Your options are: Metric, Imperial, or US Survey. Once your selection has been made, your changes take effect immediately.

When creating a project, you can allow external team members to be included in the project. You can also choose who is responsible for cloud service usage costs. 

When you create a project, you have the option to create your project based on a template. You can select from a generic Bentley project template,  or a custom user-defined Organization project template. Choose your template from the Select Template step on the Project Registration wizard, and then you can customize the project by selecting which components to include, as shown below.

Tip: If you want your project to be…

Users can now choose a custom color to identify selected objects in side-by-side 2D and 3D visualizations. Once defined, the setting is saved as the default color.

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The new Team Activity feature allows users to view a team’s activity. Team Activitiy can be viewed in grid or tile format.You can view Team Activity from:

• Data Manager – Select  Team Activity. For example, 
  
  
  

Administrators can view overall activities and commits as well as manage resources by releasing locks on files.
You can access Manage Resources from the Team Activity page.

• Manage resources – Selecting the…

You can now export 3D Named Versions to IFC. Both IFC schema 2X3 and 4X3 are supported. 

To perform an IFC Export, click the ellipsis menu (…) for a Named Version.

From the Export to IFC dialog, select the destination folder and a schema format, and then click Export. The IFC file will be exported to selected folder. When the export has completed, you will be notified via email and from within notification panel.

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PlantSight introduces the Documents feature, (located on the Navigation menu), that lets you and your team collaborate on projects by securely sharing files and documents. Users create shared folders in PlantSight and then upload files into these folders. Folder access can be controlled by assigning role permissions. You can also download the contents of the Share folders and create a hyperlink to direct users to the…

NOTE: This feature is available for Admin users.

Administrators may now access User Management and Entitlement Management features directly from the menu visible from any PlantSight screen. 

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New features for each release are now announced via the PlantSight Blog from the Bentley PlantSight Communities Blog.

If you want to be updated automatically, you can subscribe to RSS feeds.

You can also view What's New directly from the PlantSight application by clicking the Help icon, and then selecting What's new:

What's new is also available within the application when you log in for the first time, after…

For Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) created using OpenPlant, can be navigated using the off page connector feature. Just select the off page connector and a popup appears, allowing you to navigate to the connected off-page P&ID drawing. 

Note: This feature is only available when Page Connector component contains both On and Off-page connector model names.

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The Quick Links widget now allows you to create your own custom quick link using the Add New Link feature. You can also edit a quick link, using the Manage Quick Links option. This feature is available on Facility and Project dashboards. 

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A Select Report option is now available from a 4D Analytics widget settings. This feature allows you to select four additional report widgets to appear on your Facility and Project dashboards. Your choices are: Facility Overview, Monthly Survey, Current Status, and Real Time Overview.

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You can now add new widgets from the  Add New Widget button located at the bottom of Facility and Project pages. When selected, a dialog displays all available widgets. You can select the widgets that you want to add to the page.

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Welcome to the PlantSight Community!

Here you have access to all of the Bentley and extended community of PlantSight experts.  Whether they are Bentley colleagues in Development, QA, Technical Support, Pre-Sales, Professional Services or Product Management, our team of experts is here to answer any questions that you have and lend our years of experience with Bentley products and services and of course with PlantSight…