This document contains frequently asked questions related to the Bentley Utilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 3) release.
The FAQ is divided into a number of different sections:
Bentley Utilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 3) is a desktop product to design, manage, and analyze the GIS representation of electric, gas, water, wastewater, or district energy networks using MicroStation-based editing tools.
It also includes the ability to do on-the-fly cost estimation that lets designers quickly refine designs and has built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products.
The readme for Bentley Utilities Designer (SELECTseries 3) is delivered with the installation package as a Windows help file (CHM). A single-document version of the readme can be found at the Bentley Utilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 3) Readme page.
Bentley Utilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 3) is a desktop product that offers built-in workflow management to assign, track, and manage work, as well as interfaces to enterprise Workflow Management products.
It works with Bentley Map, Bentley Map PowerView or any other MicroStation-based desktop product.
The readme for Bentley Utilities Workflow Manager (SELECTseries 3) is delivered with the installation package as a Windows help file (CHM). A single-document version of the readme can be found at the Bentley Utilities Workflow Manager V8i (SELECTseries 3) Readme page.
Bentley Utilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 3) supports Windows Vista and Windows 7. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these operating systems are supported.
Bentley does not support its software running on Microsoft operating systems versions that Microsoft has "retired". For more information see Microsoft's Windows lifecycle fact sheet and the Bentley Application Support Lifecycle.
Bentley Utilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 3) requires:
• Intel© or AMD© processor 3.0 GHz or greater• 2 GB of RAM minimum, 4 GB or more recommended• 2 GB free disk space minimum• Graphics card supported by DirectX 9.0c
Bentley Utilities Designer V8i (SELECTseries 3) will typically be configured in a LAN or comparable setup when implemented with Oracle or SQL Server persistence.
Minimum network requirements are:• A bandwidth of 500 Mbit/s minimum, 1 Gbit/s or higher recommended • Latency < 5 ms minimum, < 1 ms recommended
Bentley Electric, Bentley Gas, Bentley Water, Bentley Expert Designer Electric, Bentley Expert Designer Gas, Bentley Expert Designer Water, Bentley Expert Designer Server are going to be merged.
There will be a single Bentley product for Utility Network Analysis and Design:• Bentley Utilities Designer
These applications will be replaced with Bentley Utilities Designer. On-the-fly cost estimation, workflow management, and interfaces to enterprise GIS and Workflow Management products will be included in the product. Further, all electric, gas, water data models and functionality previously found in Bentley Electric, Bentley Gas, and Bentley Water as well sa the new wastewater data model and functionality will also become available.
A single Bentley Utilities Designer license will cover all functionality previously licensed separately.
When upgrading, portfolio balancing will be used to bring forward licenses from previous products to Bentley Utilities Designer. Please contact your Bentley representative for more information.
Bentley OpenUtilities Designer includes all the capabilities of MicroStation. In addition, it also includes all of Bentley Map's capabilities.