hi
I wonder if anyone here was/is quite proficient with Civil3D and now with OpenRoads Designer.
I switched to Microstation from Autocad in 2005 and have never regretted it. Then I learned InRoads v8i to later made a transition to OpenRoads. I feel quite fully conversant with it, I am using in on highways, small streets, runabouts, site projects, runways, aprons, taxiways, and harbors, etc. I am providing training in ORD for Bentley Institute. And would rally stay with ORD.
However now more and more clients both external and internal at my company ask me to work in Civil3D, with no other reason than "we work in Civil 3D, we don't know ORD and we want you to work in the same software". Frankly, I can not say what is better to what tasks, I see sometimes colleagues struggling with assemblies that I can do in seconds with ORD templates, and I appreciate the flexibility and working in 3D environment rather than creating solid as exports of corridors. I know they are suffering from lack of surface templates, etc. On the other hand, they produce solids, not meshes that have sometimes issues with volumes.
Briefly, what I would like to ask, if you can use both ORD and C3D, what would be the software of your choice.
Adam