Multiple Users Platform & Surface Simplifier

Hello Everyone

Our Company is evaluating to change the civil works platform to bentley (Currently we are using Autodesk Civil 3D) and one important thing we must know is if Bentley PowerCivil works with multiple user platform (one DB and several users working on it, getting just one model)

other question is if is there a surface simplifier command, procedure or something like that... we export our civil data base to PDMS but usually the surfaces have a lot of triangles and that makes the PDMS model get a little heavier (not little, really)... with Civil 3D we use the surface simplifier and works fine... does PowerCivil have something equivalent?

i really would appreciate your help with some of light

thanks in advance
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  • PowerCivil does not use a single database - it stores the DTM, geometry, surfaces etc in separate files. This means that one user can be checking survey data, while another works on an alignment, for example. It is not the same as a relational database with concurrent users working on different records.

    You can take the created surface and 'simplify' it to a gridded or profiled surface - you get less data, but also lose detail. I do not konw how C3D does its simplification, but I assume the same is true there.



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  • PowerCivil does not use a single database - it stores the DTM, geometry, surfaces etc in separate files. This means that one user can be checking survey data, while another works on an alignment, for example. It is not the same as a relational database with concurrent users working on different records.

    You can take the created surface and 'simplify' it to a gridded or profiled surface - you get less data, but also lose detail. I do not konw how C3D does its simplification, but I assume the same is true there.



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