I can find no resources or descriptions on how to create an OpenRoads Terrain from an ESRI Shape file. Everything that I've found leads back to Bentley Map. The Shape file contains unlabeled graphical contour lines. These lines are at zero elevation and contain a ContourEle Property that identifies the elevation. There are 1000's of contour graphics making it impossible to manually assign elevations to each one, and they are all on the same Level. Has the Bentley Map functionality to work with these Shape files been migrated forward into OpenRoads? How do I create an OpenRoads Terrain with this type of data? Any help will be immensely appreciated since I've been hunting, unsuccessfully, for a solution for several days now.
Hi Nezmar,
I have not tried this workflow before, but I found this wiki on the MicroStation page that may allow you to import the shape file in a 3D dgn with contour elevations. From there you'd be able to create a terrain from the elements.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/16058/gis-files-elevation-data
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Holly Herring said:but I found this wiki on the MicroStation page
That's good way. I used it just once or twice and it worked fine. But it was in plain MicroStation V8i, but let's assume it should work also in ORD CE ;-)
When the contours will be as line strings in 3D, it would be simple to create DTM using ORD terrain tools.
Regards,
Jan
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Thanks Holly. I may have to log this task because it appears more complicated than just setting that MS_ELEVPROP_AS_Z variable. When I did that, and referenced the SHP file (I don't know how to import it per all the Bentley Map instructions I've been finding), the elevations seemed to be a factor of 10 times what they actually are. And they came in at 0,0 coordinate-wise at a very, very small XY scale.
I guess my original question was: Is the functionality of Bentley Map included in OpenRoads somewhere? I suspect not. I don't have the older versions of the software loaded to access Bentley Map right now. It seems that there are other ESRI files that contain important information that need to be accessed by the software in order to import it correctly (like the PRJ, or SBX, or DBF files).
Any other thoughts? Should I post to another Forum?
Jan, do you recall having any issues with coordinate location or scaling?
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Nezmar Dok said:I guess my original question was: Is the functionality of Bentley Map included in OpenRoads somewhere?
No, it's not. It has been discussed several times (try to search this forum). I do not remember what was conclusion, whether it's planned for future release or not.
Nezmar Dok said:It seems that there are other ESRI files that contain important information that need to be accessed by the software in order to import it correctly (like the PRJ, or SBX, or DBF files).
They are (at least DBF) accessed automatically, it's MicroStation feature.
I am not sure whether all SHP files are supported, because not all files are enough standardized (I am aware of many troubles e.g. with encoding of national characters).
Nezmar Dok said:Jan, do you recall having any issues with coordinate location or scaling?
No, it was fine.
Nezmar Dok said:and referenced the SHP file
Can be SHP file shared? The problem is that SHP is old proprietary format, so many software creates own "standard SHP files" ;-) But of course it can be a bug in PowerPlatform code.
Thank you for the response Jan. I moved the SHP file out of the folder that contained the other ESRI files and ORD kicked back a message saying that it was not a recognized format. When I opened the SHP file in the folder that contained the other ESRI files it opened without that message. That tells me that it IS accessing some of those other files as it opens the SHP file. And as you said, with the DBF it's accessing it automatically.
The issue that I have to resolve now is the scaling and coordinate location.
Thanks again.