• [OR] Best Practices - Open Roads Feature Definition - Please Contribute to This Open Discussion

    I have a number of threads on this topic asking very specific questions - sadly most of these have few responses and many of those that do, are ones that I myself have answered. So, I am trying a different approach. I am launching this as a discussion…
  • [ORD R2] Doubling corridor elements

    Hi, there is an ORD's problem which I cannot solve for a very long time and since I did not get any response from Bentley on my SR the Communties is my last chance. I implemented ORD in quite a big project (12km of expressway) so we have plenty of road…
  • Annotation Text Movement

    Is there a way to prevent annotative text (stations, curve data, ect.) from moving? We often need to move or rotate text so our plans are presentable, but the annotation tends to move back to a default position.
  • CE - Sheet Index sheet name

    Can anyone tell me if it is possible to assign the first 4 digits of a project folder name to the prefix of the sheet name and have the Sheet indexing tool pick up this value and assign it to the sheet name I think I speak to most MS users. A project…
  • CE Sheet Index - Sheet names

    Hi I have a great deal of clients that over a vast period of time have created Sheets models with the name of the Paper size ie A1 Sheet. This was great but now that we have sheet indexing, this is a right pain. The Sheet index import tool will only…
  • GEOPAK SELECTseries 2 3 4 DDB Migration to ORD

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.00.00.120+ Area: Drawing Production Original Author: Bentley Technical Support Group This video demonstrates the workflow required to MIgrate the DDB Features into OpenRoads…
  • How to Change Direction of Horizontal Geometry

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.00.00.120+ Area: Geometry Original Author: Holly Herring, Bentley Technical Support Group Question: How do I reverse the direction of the horizontal geometry stationing…
  • Issues trying to place a label using the "Place Label" command in OpenRoads Designer.

    After I have placed a "Point" I go to the "Place Label" command and change the "Type" to "Text Favorite" and choose an option under "Favorite Name" and "Dimension Style". I'm then prompted to "Identify Element or DataPoint". When I pick the DataPoint…
  • Label Terrain Spots

    Hi I am labeling terrain with "Label Terrain Spots" from Open Roads tools. But I cant disable the leader. regards Sigfus
  • Linear Quantities from OpenRoads Corridor

    The "Element Component Quantities" report in Openroads provides surface area and volume quantities for corridors, is there a way to also obtain reports on linear quantities, such as length of guardrail? For example, we would use Geopak's D&C Manager to…
  • Migration Utilities

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): See below: Area: Workspace Version: 10.08.xx.xx and 10.09.xx.xx Migration Utilities - 2020 R3 (10.09.00.xx) The following link contains the download for the Migration Utility…
  • Multiple special ditch profiles

    Hi, We have a situation where we are partially profiling ditches on multiple segment along a project. We have profiled all the the locations on the main alignment profile view. The issue is that we have many segments being profiled and scattered…
  • ORD - Overall Inconsistency and maybe improvement request

    Anybody is having issues with Openroads? You can works for two day and everything is fine, product is stable, but then something happen and you can't pinpoint it. Your corridor do not recognize your profiles even if they are active, so you make them not…
  • ORD - Vertical Curve Annotation With Dimension Lines

    Is there a way to create a dimension line extending from a PVC to PVT so as to show the extent of a vertical curve in ORD? I am trying to create an annotation group that does this but I cannot find a way to make this work.
  • Problem applying Surface template to terrain model.

    I've been trying to apply surface templates to terrains that I have created from elements in my dgn. After following the application process, the templates do not show to be applied in the model. Looking at the template application to the terrain model…
  • Use of SS4 Feature Definitions in ORD

    Hi all, As a lot of us have quite a number of established feature definitions in our SS4 workspaces, can these feature definitions be used or migrated to ORD without recreating the whole lot? Understandably native styles will be gone but we already…
  • Video: Annotation Changes in Update 3 - Using Text Favorites for Station/Offset/Elevation Labels in Cross Sections and Profiles

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.03.00.43+ Area: Drawing Production Original Author: Chuck Lawson, Bentley Systems - Senior Application Engineer This video demonstrates the user of Text Favorites for the…
  • Video: Create Start Seed file for Plan and Profile Seed file

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.07.03+ Area: Drawing Production Original Author: Purva Lakde. Product Advantage Group This video demonstrates to create Start Seed file for Plan and Profile as it is required…
  • Video: Using the Complex Redefine Command ORD

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.00.00.120+ Area: Geometry Original Author: Holly Herring, Bentley Technical Support Group This video demonstrates the use of the Complex Redefine command to insert alternate…