What's New in LEAP Bridge Concrete CONNECT Edition V20 Update 1 (through OpenBridge Designer)?

LEAP Bridge Concrete CONNECT Edition V20 Update 1 is now available through OpenBridge Designer CONNECT Edition V10.08.02.10 on Bentley Software Downloads. This update release contains enhancements and bug fixes. The enhancements are summarized below.

  • Consolidated LEAP Bridge Concrete in OpenBridge Designer
    This enhancement is the extended consolidation of LEAP Bridge Concrete’s superstructure and substructure modules with OpenBridge Designer.
  • Interoperability to read custom girders from OpenBridge Modeler
    This enhancement offers the capability to read custom girder sections with complex geometry or details, and interprets them using the simplified templates provided by LEAP for analysis and design purposes under BIM workflow.
  • Interoperability to read diaphragm from OpenBridge Modeler
    This enhancement allows LEAP analytical to read the diaphragms defined in OpenBridge Modeler, transfer and distribute the related load among girders based on the layout of the diaphragms for analysis and design purposes under BIM and Standalone workflow.
  • Interoperability to read traffic barriers from OpenBridge Modeler
    This enhancement allows LEAP analytical to read the information of the material, layout, simplified equivalent geometry of traffic barriers from the physical model, and provides the related load transfer for analysis and design purposes under BIM and Standalone workflow.
  • Louisiana State Option
    This enhancement offers the custom configurations in LEAP to comply with the practice preference requested by Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.

For more details, please see the attached PDF file of the release notes..