For those of you getting started, I wanted to take a moment to point out we have delivered a sample workspace to help you get started. Select the user entitled "Examples". Then for the Project select Bentley-Civil-Imperial or Bentley-Civil-Metric. Finally, select the Interface Bentley-Civil.
I will be hosting a presentation on this workspace at the Bentley LEARNing Conference this May for those interested. Having a robust workspace for this new major release is vital to successful deployment.
Thanks,
Chuck Lawson
Bentley Systems, Inc.
I received a tip last week from Derricke Gray on a good idea for additional Project Settings - Design Stages. We added 4 new design stages to the Bentley-Civil Example Workspace that will be available in our next release. We added one for Top Mesh Only, Bottom Mesh Only, Linear Features Only, and Components Only. These are all Final design stages and make it a lot easier to get the correct information for machine control and terrain model creations. If you want an updated copy you can get it here. Note the paths are setup for Power GEOPAK, but it works for PG, PI, Inroads and GEOPAK Suite and MX. Just update the files that were delivered with your install after unzipping.
ftp.bentley.com/.../SS3Standards_05_21_2013.zip
Note, as we continue to update our example workspace I will continue to update this thread. Note, the posted link will be good for a few weeks.
Chuck
Unknown said: Note, the posted link will be good for a few weeks.
Note, the posted link will be good for a few weeks.
Hi Chuck -
The link is dead already. Can you repost a new one?
Thanks.
New Link
ftp.bentley.com/.../SS3Standards_06_21_2013.zip
We have a new update for those working on workspaces for SS3. We made a couple of fundamental changes. First, the material assignments are now done at the element template level and not directly to the MicroStation level itself. This just makes sense and does not force one material per level. Secondly, we made a new category of element templates for the 3D linear features. It is understandable that perhaps in plan view the color assignment for a back of curb maybe the color yellow for example. But in a 3D model that is rendered, the color of the back of curb would need to match the color of the rendered material, in this case grey concrete. So if you study the surface feature properties, you will see we changed the element template for the 3D selection.
The newest version of the workspace can be downloaded here and the link will be good for about two weeks.
ftp.bentley.com/.../SS3Standards_07_10_2013.zip
Please feel free to comment / share on any other workspace ideas you may have and or tried and liked.
I noticed the folder structure in the Zip file is from PowerGEOPAK.
Is it safe to assume that these are universal for all civil products?
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Yes, universal for Power Inroads and or using with layered Suite application.