THE AI INTERVIEW
One of the most time-consuming tasks in engineering is the production of technical drawings – detailed documents that communicate design decisions to contractors. Engineers often spend 30-50 % of their time on a project annotating and detailing them, according to Julien.
AI is able to play a major role in automating much of this process. Bentley has trained models on engineering drawings to enable AI to generate annotations and measurements automatically.
“ The engineers just need to validate the drawing that has been generated by AI and make a few adjustments,” adds Julien.“ They don’ t need to do the measurements one by one.”
Bentley also allows firms to retrain these models on their own past drawings, so the AI learns a specific company’ s house style while keeping the data private.
“ When you use your data to train AI models, those AI models remain only for you,” says Julien.“ They are not shared with anybody else and you’ re in control of where they are being used.”
26 June 2026