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Despite Bentley shifting its primary support and development focus to the 64-bit MicroStation CONNECT Edition and subsequent Bentley Infrastructure Cloud platforms, SELECTseries 3 remains operational in numerous engineering offices globally. 1. Enterprise Stability

For visualization, SELECTseries 3 utilized an embedded Luxology rendering engine. This brought photorealistic rendering, advanced lighting simulations, and global illumination directly into the CAD interface. Engineers could produce high-quality animations and fly-through presentations for public hearings or client reviews without exporting assets to external rendering suites. 3. Industry Implementations and Workflows microstation v8i select series 3

Utilizes the high-performance POD file format, allowing billions of LiDAR points to be rendered simultaneously without system lag. Despite Bentley shifting its primary support and development

New users can "test drive" the software for up to 30 days before full activation. This brought photorealistic rendering

Between 2018 and 2020, a major US transit authority refused to upgrade to CONNECT because their signal design tool (a custom MDL application) was never ported. They completed a $2.1 billion light rail extension using alone.