Additional Resources for OpenRoads V8i (SELECTseries) FILTER BY: all All Articles Tips Video Tips OpenRoads Leader Sought EnvisionCAD is seeking a talented, eager, team-focused CAD Designer to join our OpenRoads Team focused on roadway/highway design and/or survey/site/civil… MicroStation and OpenRoads Designer: Optimizing your remote working configuration Working from home is the new normal for a lot of companies. There are numerous methods businesses are utilizing for establishing remote connections and… Bentley Licensing: It’s almost midnight It’s been two years since Bentley announced the end of SELECTserver. CONNECT Edition: The clock is ticking Now, January 1, 2021 is only a few short weeks… Thanks a million! Thanks to you Last month we reached a goal of ours and it’s all thanks to you! EnvisionCAD reached 1 million views (and counting) on our YouTube channel!… OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Persist Snaps Toggle If you are a regular user of OpenRoads you know that snapping to Civil Objects in a dgn when placing new geometry creates a rule to that element. This is… Ten Commandments for Creating Configurations in CONNECT When we build custom Configurations for clients there are some general rules by which we abide. These general rules are also passed on to our students… Bentley Products, Terminology, and Versions: Making sense of the confusion The more we talk to our clients, and other Bentley users, it has become crystal clear that many users and organizations are very confused by the terms and… OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Placing a Dynamic Label with Text Favorites If you’ve done any type of plan production with PowerGEOPAK (SELECTseries 4) or any of the previous versions, the new functionality of Text Favorites and the… OpenRoads Technology Tip: SUDA Hydraulic Properties Update Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into civil products. The… ORD – MicroStation Tip: AccuDraw Set Origin While working in OpenRoads Designer (ORD) there are many times you need to preform some standard MicroStation tasks. When doing so you may get frustrated that… OpenRoads Tip: SUDA Catalog Editing Tools built using Bentley’s OpenRoad Technology include the ability to leverage drainage and utility design tools incorporated into the civil products. The… OpenRoads Tip: Mirroring Entire Template During Creation When providing training on the corridor modeling functionality in the OpenRoads tools, I am often asked if it is possible to mirror the work done on a template… CONNECT Edition: The clock is ticking Still haven’t made the leap to MicroStation or OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition? Bentley has announced that as of January 1, 2021 they will officially… OpenRoads Tip: SUDA Cell Location Issue The workings under the hood in the Subsurface Utilities is complex, bringing together Cell libraries, Feature Definitions, Feature Symbologies, and Element… OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition Tip: Adding multiple Parametric Constraints to a corridor without reprocessing the corridor Have you ever needed to add multiple Parametric Constraints to your corridor, but don’t want to wait for the corridor to reprocess after adding each one?… OpenRoads Tip: Ribbon Tool Search OpenRoads Designer brings a new ribbon interface to Bentley’s civil design software. This is comprised of Workflows, Tabs and Groups collecting common… 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 […] 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 Designer Connect Edition Tip: How to use Survey TIW files from SS4 When implementing OpenRoads Designer Connect Edition for processing of survey, you will want to use any TIW files you created in SS4. When you add and… OpenRoads: Problem with Missing Dynamic Cross-sections Occasionally, an OpenRoads file will fail to show the dynamic cross-sections properly. I really don’t know what precisely causes this but it is a royal… OpenRoads: Generate Cut & Fill Slope Limits in Different Symbology You need to generate linear features which mark the limits of cut and fill slopes on each side of the corridor. You also need the symbology of the cut slope… OpenRoads Designer: Display Terrain Model Elevation Bands Applies also to OpenRoads Terrain Models in Select Series 3 and 4. Question: How do I display my terrain models with elevation range bands like I could do… OpenRoads Tip: The "Create Cross Section" Tool In this tip Andrea Hall, Senior Consultant, will create drainage profiles using the Create Cross Section Tool. OpenRoads Tip: Reverse the Direction of Alignment This one is better described as a trick, rather than a tip. Caution: the following should be used with care and check all data after completion. It is always… OpenRoads Tip: Point Report To generate a report listing the locations of multiple points, use the Point Feature Station Offset Elevation report. The points which are reported on can… OpenRoads Tip: Terrain Model – Control Triangles in Concave Areas of Project Pretty much every project has one or more areas like shown below, where terrain model triangles will cut across the concave corner of the project. My first… OpenRoads Tip: Terrain Model – How to Extract Break Lines I recently fielded a question where the designer needed to extract the break lines which existed in the OpenRoads Terrain model. The designer could see them… 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… 123>>
