GenerativeComponents®
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Product Data Sheet Image courtesy of TVS, The Lagoons GenerativeComponents® Advanced design software for architects and engineers GenerativeComponents enables designers to explore more possibilities, in less time, create better designs and efficiently create and manage complex geometric relationships. GenerativeComponents enables architects and engineers to pursue designs and achieve results that were virtually unthinkable before. Component Membrane - AA Emergent Technologies and Design AA Quad Meshes in Architecture - Benjamin Schneider-TU-Wein GenerativeComponents is an associative and parametric modeling system used by architects and engineers to automate the design processes and accelerate design iterations. It gives designers and engineers new ways to efficiently explore alternative building forms without manually building the detail design model for each scenario. It also increases their efficiency in managing conventional design and documentation. “Generative Components brings the design, manufacture and construction processes together in an integrated way, a way that will change how AEC can be achieved with significant benefits in time saving, communication and freedom to design and create.” -by Vector One Dostyk Project, Almaty - NBBJ with E/YE Design Empowered by computational methods, designers can direct their creativity to deliver inspired sustainable buildings that are freer in form and use innovative materials and assemblies. GenerativeComponents facilitates this by allowing the quick exploration of a broad range of “whatif” alternatives for even the most complex buildings. GenerativeComponents captures and graphically presents both design components and abstract Setun Hills Business Park, Moscow - Bothe Richter Teherani relationships between them. This capability lets GenerativeComponents go beyond making geometry explicit; it makes design intent explicit as well. Although designers are working graphically, based on intuition and experience in architectural design, their work is captured in logical form. This unique generative design software captures and exploits the critical relationships between design intent and geometry. Designs can be refined by either dynamically modeling and directly manipulating geometry, by applying rules and capturing relationships among building elements, or by defining complex building forms and systems through concisely expressed algorithms. To inform decisions, GenerativeComponents is integrated with building information modeling, analysis, and simulation software, providing feedback on building materials, assemblies, systems performance, and environmental conditions. This integration also ensures that intent becomes reality by enabling designs to accurately and efficiently flow through to detailed production and fabrication. GenerativeComponents is being used by many of today’s leading design firms to embrace change. It is the design tool of choice for creative architects and engineers who appreciate that design is best when it emerges from a combination of intuition and logic. GenerativeComponents is already enabling leading architects and engineers around the world to deliver inspired sustainable buildings. Among them are Arup, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners, Grimshaw Architects, HOK, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Morphosis, and SHoP Architects.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS generativecomponents AT-A-GLANCE Processor: Intel or AMD processor 3.0 GHz or greater Unique Capabilities Operating System: Windows Vista, XP, and 2000 RAM: 256MB minimum, 512MB recommended Hard Disk: 900MB free disk space (includes the 400MB install footprint for a complete installation) Display: Graphics Card supported by DirectX 9.0 ABOUT BENTLEY Bentley Systems, Incorporated is the global leader dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure. Architects, engineers, constructors, and owner-operators are indispensable in improving...