OCP just got faster!

For the last few months, we have been working hard at improving the performance of OCP. Our goal was to reduce startup time, faster iModel loading and reliability, and to overall improve the experience of loading content. We just launched the first improvements, which includes reducing the startup load time with 50% on average. You will also notice a brand new progress bar in the top of the viewer window, indicating that iModel content is loading. We will continue to work on quicker iModel loading and you should see results within a couple of months.

Use Case: Essential Energy

Responsible for managing nearly 400 substations to supply electricity to more than 840,000 customer throughout New South Wales in Australia, Essential Energy in Port Macquarie, set out to assess its capital works projects to find a low cost, low resource solution for small capital projects.

The project team wanted to explore the feasibility of an intelligent digital design system (IDDS) specifically for small utility projects. However, they faced data acquisition and compatibility issues, compounded by challenges ensuring their as-built designs accurately depicted real construction. Their Bentley-based IDDS reduced environmental impact and project design costs by 50%, as well as decreased risks associated with manual on-site work.

Essential Energy is now attempting to create an intelligent digital system that will help them find a low cost solution for small capital projects that provide essential economic support to New South Wales. Already familiar with other Bentley applications, such as ContextCapture to create a reality model of each of their project site, PowerPlatform for comprehensive substation design and analysis, and ProjectWise to manage and share models and data, they now use OpenCities Planner to establish the basis to transition to a more complete digital twin for intelligent asset management and operations.

Coming soon: New Support Form

Our Support System is now being updated! The way of submitting a Case will have a new form but attached on the same direct Support button located on OCP Editor. The new Support form includes some additional fields for you to fill in, but the process will remain the same: you fill in the form, send us the case, and we assist you as always!

Here is a recording overview demonstrating how the new form looks like and what information fields you need to fill in: New ServiceNow Support Form

The new Support form will be launched midst of June.

Aha! IDEAS Portal: A Suggestion Workspace for OpenCities Planner

Now you have the possibility to submit any OCP-related suggestions, ideas and we can have a look at them! An ideas workspace is now available for everyone to submit new ideas and vote on existing ones. Portal users are unlimited to encourage the most feedback, which can be used to improve our product feature and functionalities.

To access this Aha! IDEAS portal, access our Bentley Communities by clicking on the ‘Forum’ button on the top, right corner in OCP Editor, and then on the ‘Ideas’ tab. In the newly open window, click on ‘Add a new Idea’ and insert your thought there.