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This week, at Palau Musica Catalana (Catalan Concert Hall), fans of computational design came together for SmartGeometry Symposium, an event hosted by Bentley Systems. Most CAD users understand what it means to create geometry with intelligence embedded in it, to draw parametrically, but smart geometry, a term coined by the organizers, may be unfamiliar to many (it was to me).
Since SmartGeometry revolves around iterative, parametric geometry, facilitated by Bentley's Generative Components (GC) software, I sat down with Makai Smith, Bentley's product manager for GC, and Volker Mueller, Bentley's director of research for computational design, to get an answer to one simple question: What makes the geometry smart?
To hear my conversation with them, listen to the podcast below:
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