We recently received an email with respect to an update to the Bentley Support Policy. Many people in the office took this as a discontinuation of MXRoad but it is unclear if this is the case. However, we do note that MXROAD V8i (SELECTseries 4) will have "expiring support" from 1st July 2019 https://www.bentley.com/en/desktop-applications i.e. it will be unavailable for download and that "Connect Edition" and "Open Roads" will replace MXROAD. However, a lot of our designs use input files and we are concerned that this may not be supported. Having not used Open Roads, can you advise whether input file functionality is or will be available?
Hi Richard,
OpenRoads Designer is a completely new product. There is no linemode option within it. It does not use MX Commands.
You will still be able to use MX in the future, but it won't be developed any more, and we will still be providing support for the foreseeable future.
The intention is to transition users to ORD.
I'd be happy to discuss specific requirements, if you want to drop me an email. simon.pegg@bentley.com I'd be happy to discuss with you.
Simon Pegg
Bentley Civil Support
Unfortunately Simon Open Roads doesn't cut it for our work. Neither does Civil3Dud. It was Linemode that made MX unique, is highly efficient and differentiated it from the competition. We work string to string and we build to strings. Templates, objects and meshes are great for demos, selling BIM and selling cool-aid to sales staff, but in the real world on the ground it has proven to be of little value. The standard joke around here is BIM is only good for the BIN. If the MX market is too small for Bentley to maintain then they should have kept their greedy hands off it in the first place.
Agree with you.