• Demystifying Member Points and Posts

    Last revised: October 22, 2015 Communities has a Member Points System (MPS) that controls how member points are earned, which contributes to overall site ranking and rank badges. We currently display this information on each member's About Me page.…
  • Alignment station & offset information not showing in reports when the alignment is in a reference

    FDOT CADD has noticed a change in behavior between ORD 10.10 & 10.11 when alignments are located in a reference file for reporting purposes. In the Quantity & Light Pole Manager reports you may not see the station & offset information reported correctly…
  • Place Table Tool from Excel is broken

    Just an FYI for everyone... the internal Microstation/ORD/OBM Table tool has been a great way to link excel files to models in our dgns for some time now. However, starting in Microstation 17.0 (OBM/ORD 10.11) when you place a table from an excel file…
  • RE: Print Organizer Properties Missing

    This is because you have "Enabled variable print definitions" and created a .pset (I-10 PRINTSET.pset) using a print style "FDOT PDF". To convert the .pset to "fixed print definitions" and see the properties for each, do the following: in the Print Organizer…
  • RE: Exporting to KMZ

    I have the same problem with my DOT's standard ORD workspace. The problem appears to be caused by the fact that ORD exports placemarks for DGN points and the fact that my DOT's Annotation Group for alignment stationing is set to place a line with zero…
  • RE: OpenRoads Designer - Exclude Existing Pavement from Cut Area for Earthwork Calculations

    See this video https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki/55061/video-create-cut-fill-volumes---unsuitable-materials and note that the feature definition volume option determines how the mesh volumes are…
  • ORD 10.9/10.10: Can we get a variable indicating the schema version used in the application

    Now that ORD 10.10 supports dual install with 10.9 (and future versions I assume) I've been looking at what we need to do in our workspaces to support dual installing. It looks like if we need to support both versions for projects from the same client…
  • ORD Feature Definition Hierarchy

    Here is a handy diagram I created to illustrate to myself some of the relationships in the OpenRoads Designer Feature Definition setup:
  • MicroStation CONNECT: Move to Next or Previous DGN File

    Robert Högberg asked this question in the Programming Forum . Then Ivo Blaauw asked for a version that works with MicroStation V8 i . The result is a general-purpose tool that anyone might like to use, so I'm posting here. Robert wanted a tool for MicroStation…
  • Re: Loading InRoads from within MS

    I had to resort to adding these lines to my standards.cfg file: MS_DGNAPPS > C:/Program Files/Common Files/Bentley Shared/Civil Platform/08.11.07/CivilDialogExt.ma MS_DGNAPPS > C:/Program Files/Microstation_V8i/PrintPreparation/bin/PrintPrep.ma MS_DGNAPPS…