Is there a way or setting to allow clicking and holding the Next Station or Previous Station buttons to more quickly advance through the sections? It seems like you are only allowed to click once and advance one station interval at a time. In InRoads SS2, you could click and hold to zip through the stations quickly. This was useful during design to get a quick idea of problematic areas.
Hi Jack,
We have put an enhancement request for this as well. We could also do the same as what you could in Inroads in MX as well so the station-by-station advancement of ORD Dynamic Cross sections is a step backwards for us as well. You can put this in as an idea here: Bentley OpenCivil Ideas Portal (aha.io) and im sure many of us will vote for it.
Regards,
Mark
OpenRoads Designer 2023 | Microstation 2023.1 | ProjectWise 2023
Mark:
One would have thought that Bentley would have tied this feature into the Cross Section Navigator tool. I just thought of this, and do not have access to OpenRoads Designer, but has anyone tried out this notion? I seriously doubt that this idea will work because of the difference in actionable sequences, but still...
Best Regards,
Hi Mark,
The issue is that the XS Navigator is for Cross Section Drawings and not linked to the Dynamic XS Views that we use quite a bit while developing and checking the design before we get to drawing production.
Yeah, exactly as I has assumed. Another missed cross-view tool and missed opportunity by Bentley. What a dang shame
Mark, on a related note, we use dynamic cross sections and their associated crossing objects (cel flags, crossing existing and proposed utilities, etc.) all the the time. It is only when these sections look impeccable that we even attempt to cut cross section drawings for production. The authors post is of imminent importance to us.
Thanks Mark for the reply and link to the ideas portal, I will check it out and put this out there. What I’ll call “rapid station advancement” was crucial for some of our lengthy corridor rehabilitation projects to verify proposed grade, superelevation, and fill slope decisions before locking down the design. As a new ORD user, it’s nice to see the plan, cross section and 3D simultaneously but in some aspects like this it is more difficult to evaluate the design in a simplistic way (that doesn’t over-tax our PC’s to the point of tapping out!)