Part of what I'm doing now involves interacting with 3D PDS piping/plant models and I've just discovered Bentley View.
After fighting with SmartPlant Review for a few weeks (crashes/hangs, confusing (to me) GUI, having to deal with out-of-date .dri files, network licenses, etc.), View is pretty impressive. Does anyone know the history of these two products and have tips for using them?
It seems like SmartPlant Review is more powerful and can do more "stuff" like creating videos of fly-thrus and photorealistic images (assuming that all the modules are installed) but View is much easier to use for someone just doing design checking and model manipulation/visualization.
View is a free download (it also reads .dwg, maybe other files) whereas SmartPlant Review is not and each additional module costs extra.
Why would a piping design lead/checker/co-ordinator use SmartPlant Review?
Paul Received on Wed Feb 02 20:22:00 2005
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