Bentley launches new Pointool iWare apps

Bentley Systems has announced the immediate availability of the Bentley PointoolsV8i application and Bentley iWare apps: Bentley Pointools View and Bentley Pointools PODcreator.

These applications will lower the barriers in getting advantage of point clouds by preparing the data once and enabling its reuse anytime. These Point tools save time and enhance data quality. They also speed up the editing process.

The Bentley Pointools V8i features include point-cloud differencing and clash detection functionality that makes differences and clashes easy to detect and visualize. 

The Bentley Pointools View iWare app priced at no charge enables the visualization of point-cloud models with billions of points, annotations, and distance measurements, and the production of compelling orthographic and perspective images and sharing point-cloud data with all project stakeholders. 

The Bentley Pointools PODcreator iWare app, also offered for no charge enables the conversion of a range of laser scan formats to the POD file format. 

Faraz Ravi, Bentley Director, Product Management, said, “With the release of Bentley Pointools V8i, infrastructure professionals and owner-operators gain substantial new value that comes from the increased mobility of point-cloud data throughout the infrastructure lifecycle. Moreover, existing Pointools Edit and Pointools Suite users can benefit from this added value by upgrading to Bentley Pointools V8i through our SELECT subscription program, which includes maintenance and technical support. This immediately gives them access, at no additional product cost, to the differencing and clash detection functionality supported by this release, as well as all the innovative features coming in future releases of Bentley Pointools.”