Most infrastructure projects require the conversion of legacy documents. Descartes helps you integrate all imagery into engineering workflows to improve the overall quality of your project.

You benefit from the ability to:

Work with all data types, regardless of size, in a single product
Use advanced modeling, clipping, and sectioning tools to create 3D models of as-built conditions
Extract ground and breaklines from reality meshes and point clouds
Search and visualize reality meshes by enriching and classifying regions with additional information
Streamline point cloud to geometry conversion
Enrich, segment, and classify point clouds and combine them with engineering models
Produce animations and renderings for presentations

In addition to its robust capabilities to work with reality modeling data, the software ensures you have seamless integration with ProjectWise. This integration provides streaming that helps you work with extremely large files. Using ProjectWise reduces the risk of mismanaging your data and helps maintain document integrity.

Descartes | ContextCapture Editor (deprecated product) packaging

	Bentley Descartes V8i	MicroStation + Bentley Descartes for MicroStation V8i	Bentley Descartes CONNECT Edition	MicroStation + Bentley Descartes for MicroStation CONNECT Edition	ContextCapture Editor CONNECT Edition
Platform
2D creation, manipulation and modification tools	*	*	*	*	*
3D Solid Modeling Tools	*	*	*	*	*
3D Surface Modeling Tools	*	*	*	*	*
Mesh tools (Mesh Retouching)	*	*	*	*	*
Raster Visualization	*	*	*	*	*
Point Cloud Visualization	*	*	*	*	*
Reality Mesh Visualization	Reference Manager	Reference Manager	Reality Mesh Manager	Reality Mesh Manager	Reality Mesh Manager
iTwin Capture 3MX Reality Mesh	*	*	*	*	*
Bentley Scalable Mesh (.3sm)			*	*	*
Point cloud Streaming from Reality Data Management			*	*	*
Reality Mesh Streaming from Reality Data Management			*	*	*
Geographic Coordinate systems	*	*	*	*	*
Import and Export of standard formats (OBJ, FBX…)	*	*	*	*	*
Reference (DGN, DWG…)	*	*	*	*	*
Design History	*	*	*	*	*
2D Constraints and 2D parametric cells	*	*	*	*	*
Tables, Reports, Databases and Item Types	*	*	*	*	*
Named Boundaries, Drawing Boundaries and Place Label	*	*	*	*	*
Named Expressions, MDL apps and Macros	*	*	*	*	*
Publish to i-models and 3D PDF	*	*	*	*	*
Clash Detection	*	*	*
Animation	*	*	*	*
Batch Convert	*	*	*	*
Batch Processing	*	*	*	*	*

Reality Mesh Processing
Ground Extraction			*	*	*
Feature Extraction			*	*	*
Sections			*	*	*
Model by Section			*	*	*
Real-time Mesh Classification			*	*	*
Upload to Reality Data Management			*	*	*
Quick Ground Extraction (Coverage)			*	*	*
Volume Calculation			*	*	*
Tile Terrain files export			*	*	*
Photo Navigation			*		*

Point Cloud Processing
Ground Extraction and Ground Classification	*	*	*	*	*
Feature Extraction	*	*	*	*	*
Clips	*	*	*	*	*
Sections	*	*	*	*	*
Model by Section	*	*	*	*	*
Extract Piping Features	*	*	*	*	*
Classification Editing	*	*	*	*	*
3D Line Following	*	*	*	*	*
Colorize from Orthophoto			*	*	*
Presentation Styles Management	*	*	*	*	*
Tile Export	*	*	*	*	*
Smart Snap & Visual Explorer	*	*	*	*	*

Scalable Terrain Modeling
Visualization	*	*	*	*	*
Generation from 2.5 D Sources	*	*	*	*	*
Clips	*	*	*	*	*
Feature Extraction	*	*	*	*	*
Image Draping	*	*	*	*	*
Contours Extraction	*	*	*	*	*
Raster DEM Extraction	*	*	*	*	*
Terrain Model Extraction	*	*	*	*	*
Viewshed	*	*	*	*	*

DEM / DSM
Visualization	*	*	*	*	*
Thematic Display Management	*	*	*	*	*

Image Processing
Visualization	*	*	*	*	*
Orthophoto Generation	*	*	*	*	*
Combine Raster Mosaics	*	*	*	*	*
Raster Editing tools	*	*	*	*
Mosaicking tools	*	*	*	*
Registration tools	*	*	*	*
Advanced Texture tools	*	*
Text/Cells conversion tools (a.k.a OCR)	*	*
Oracle GeoRaster attachment	*	*

Hybrid Raster / Vector
Visualization	*	*	*	*	*
Vector to Raster Conversion	*	*	*	*
Raster to Vector Conversion	*	*	*	*

Descartes and ContextCapture Editor(deprecated product)

Advanced Processing for 3D Imagery

Descartes | ContextCapture Editor (deprecated product) packaging