I have no words to say how disappointed I am with OpenRoads superelevation tool. InRoads SS2 was superrior to OpenRoads in this field.
I am dealing with 30 km long highway section. There are 28 curves and on 15 curves carriageways need to be superelevated. Creating superelevation from standards works quite fine - this time I decided to use SEP file - for some reason superelevation points are not constrained. I am quite sure that with SRL I can get points constrained.
In ss2 adding constraints to superelevation points was easy and fast as the diagram was editable. Try to add constraints to points with OpenRoads tools... Diagram is not editable, I dont get popup info when hovering over points, I get no tracking on superelevation diagram. With that being said editing superelevation in the Editor is timeconsuming and brings a lot of problems. We can not add/insert point on diagram. We can add slope/station entries to superelevation in plan but again this way you can not constraint slope. to do so you need to go to the Editor and choose parents point from drop down list - I have hundreds of points there. While intuitive and quite obvious way would be to select points on diagram. I logged CR to make superelevation diagram editable long time ago. Perhaps shared my concerns at the stage of beta-tests as well.
I wish I missed something and there is a magic switch to toggle editing superelevation diagram on.
After this exercise with 30 km long highway section I am concerning to use SS2 Roadway Designer just to create superelevation and than import it to OpenRoads.
I consider myself as open-minded Bentley software user but this time I need someone to convince me that it weren't few steps back with superelvation tools in OpenRoads. Give me some hope ;)
Any news on schedule for the next major release of OpenRoads platform? Mstn 64 bit is expected to be released this year. Shall we assume that the next MR will support 64bit platform?
Adam
The editable superelevation diagram is on the way. I know it is something that development is currently working on getting implemented. Although I don't have the specific details, I do know that development is currently working on a lot of enhancements to superelevation. Hopefully, many of these concerns will be addressed in upcoming releases.
Answer Verified By: Adam Wieczorek