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
I also agree that superelevation was far superior in SS2 than it is in SS3. The simple fact alone that you can not constrain points to one another is very surprising to me as it is a loss of functionality in the new release, something that Bentley tries hard to avoid.
Maybe if enough users voice their concerns about the current direction the software is headed in this area we can get some traction toward a similar SS2 workflow.
Hi,
The lack of diagram editing is very suprising for me too. I'm used to design superelevation manually (because of many reasons) and the workflow offered by OpenRoads is much more time-consuming in comparison with InRoads SS2.
Is there any reason of diagram editing has been disabled in OpenRoads? If no, may we ask to get it back?
Thanks, Krzysztof