The Paradox of Change Management in Engineering and Surveying Adopting new technology is never just about the technology itself. It’s a journey of adaptation that requires individuals and teams to embrace change—a…
Why Your Reviewers Are Your Biggest Hurdles to BIM In the world of Department of Transportation (DOT) projects, we’re seeing a growing push for adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM) processes. BIM’s…
OpenRoads Designer Roadmap During a Global Pandemic Take advantage of this time to prep for the transition to OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition and MicroStation CONNECT Edition. This transition can easily be…
OpenRoads Tip: Create Geometry by Template Have you ever done a schematic layout of your design and needed a bunch of offset alignments from your center-line to represent lanes, curb, sidewalk etc.? The…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Windows Update Causing Crash with Corridors Windows 10 Spring Creator Update (1803) There is a known issue with the Windows 10 Spring Creator Update, 1803 with numerous Bentley CONNECT Edition software.…
OpenRoads Tip: Clip a Corridor or End a Corridor at a Skew When working with corridors in plans production it is sometimes necessary to clip a corridor area out for a new structure or maybe end a corridor at a skew. …
OpenRoads Tip: Analyze Trace Slope As you start working on a new terrain it is useful to get a feel for the drainage patterns. OpenRoads has a number of tools to assist with this; one… Read…
OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Plans Production In the newest release of OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Update 2 the ability to create Plan and Profile sheets has been added to the workflow. You no…
OpenRoads Tip: Best Practice Closed Geometry When creating features which are closed, it is important to consider how the geometry will eventually be used in the 3D model. In general, it is not a good…
Unsure about whether to utilize CAD managed services? You may think to yourself: “Gee, our CAD department is functioning and we already have an IT Manager, standardization should be easy within the…
OpenRoads Tip: Corridor Modeling Manipulators There are two lines generated during modeling in OpenRoads. Dependent on which one you select, different context mini tool bars are presented. Corridor …
OpenRoads Tip: Missing Graphic Manipulators Written by Bob Mecham I am writing this tip because this doesn’t happen often so when it does I really have to rack my brain to remember why. Hopefully…
OpenRoads Tip: Civil AccuDraw Floating Origin Written by: Bob Mecham Sometimes, we need to establish the end of a line at a location measured form something else rather than the first point. 1. Start the…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Adding Link, Point, and Shape Codes to Code Set Styles Written By: Bryan Sullivan In last month’s tip, we imported custom subassemblies into Civil 3D. These custom subassemblies may have different Link, Point,…
OpenRoads Tip: Editing and Updating Terrains Created By Graphical Filters In last months tip we discussed Importing Terrain from Graphics. However when using the Edit Terrain Model toolbar it reports “Not an Editable Terrain”.…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Adding a Subassembly to Civil 3D Written by: Bryan Sullivan You may have received a subassembly from a client or vendor. Or you may have created your first subassembly in Subassembly Composer.…
OpenRoads Tip: Import Terrain from Graphics "Not an Editable Terrain" The problem may occur after you have created an OpenRoads terrain element using the Create Terrain Model by Graphical Filter. Then you may need to delete a…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: How To Fix “Device Not Found” Error When Batch Plotting or Publishing to PDF in Civil 3D 2016 Written By: Ben Johnson If you use a custom profile in Civil 3D complete with custom file path locations for Printer Configuration Search Path and custom…
OpenRoads Tip: Name Assignment and Annotation of Geometry Points Written by: Bob Mecham By default, as you place a point the Name will match the Feature Definition name. This can be seen in the Tools Setting dialog. Prior…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Bug When Editing Pipe Networks in SSA 2016 Written By: Ben Johnson A client recently brought to my attention the fact that Storm and Sanitary Analysis 2016 crashes when she tries to edit pipe networks…
ACEC Wisconsin Civil 3D Workshop The American Council of Engineering Companies of Wisconsin is excited to announce the inaugural Civil 3D User Group Workshop on September 28. This one-day…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Plotting Versatility Using DWF By: Ben Johnson Over the years there have been a number of issues when plotting Civil 3D sheets directly to PDF. In the past, some of these issues included…
OpenRoads Tip: Working with Geometry and Snap Constraints Written by: Bob Mecham In this OpenRoads Geometry tutorial we will show you how Snap Constrains are created and how make sure that they are not used. We will…
OpenRoads Tip: Point Controls Targeting MicroStation Graphics in Corridors Written by: Bob Mecham Point Controls can be used to override the template in areas where lanes are widening or working with ditches. By using point controls…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: AutoCAD Civil 3D Object Enabler Written by: Bryan Sullivan Although AutoCAD Civil 3D is built on AutoCAD, Civil 3D objects such as surfaces, alignments, profiles, and other objects created…
SUDA Tip: Create a New Feature Definition Written by: Robert Garrett You will note that there are 6 types of feature definitions which can be defined from the Project Explorer. Linear, Point and…
OpenRoads Survey Tip: What is different with field coding in SS4? Written by: Bob Mecham If you are coming from an InRoads, GEOPAK or MXROAD Survey coding system, OpenRoads technology necessitates some changes for how field…
OpenRoads Tip: Use Plan View Snap to Lock Civil Accudraw in Profile Written by: Bob Mecham Did you know that with Civil AccuDraw you can work both in the plan view and profile view while placing a geometry element. In this…
Bentley Civil Products V8i (SELECTseries 4) Maintenance Release 2 Released – V08.11.09.872 Bentley Civil Products V8i (SELECTseries 4) Maintenance Release 2 – V08.11.09.872 – has been released and is available for download from Bentley…
OpenRoads Tip: Civil AccuDraw Working in Profile Views Written by: Bob Mecham By now you have probably seen or maybe even started using Civil AccuDraw with Horizontal Geometry. Did you know that Civil AccuDraw…
OpenRoads Tip: Playing By the (Civil) Rules Bentley’s OpenRoads Technology has brought with it brand new ways of creating and editing geometry. Built into the geometry elements themselves is the…
MicroStation Tip: XYZ Text Delivered with MicroStation is a toolbar that will label coordinates in the file and import/export coordinates. From the MicroStation pulldown menu select…
