Bentley Systems' CAD/BIM authoring platform, widely used on infrastructure, rail, and utilities projects as an alternative to the Autodesk ecosystem. Where Autodesk's tools dominate buildings, Bentley's MicroStation and its OpenX applications (OpenRoads, OpenBridge) are especially common in civil infrastructure - the two ecosystems meet on the same project through IFC exchange rather than either one replacing the other.
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