• My Sessions at the Bentley Learn Conference

    Hello everyone. Just thought I’d drop a line here regarding my upcoming presentations at the Bentley Learn Conference. I have three presentations that I'm currently working on ... The first is entitled Best Practices: Sharing the Civil Model …
  • Bridges in Civil/Inroads SS3

    Hello I have Bentley Civil with Inroads SS3 installed and I was looking in the help file. I see that there are a lot of points in there about working with bridge tools, but I can't seem to find any of them. Is it possible to make bridges in Inroads…
  • Disappearing Template Edit Dialog

    I have been receiving some questions from users about the template editor dialog disappearing and unable to get it back without having to restart MicroStation and InRoads or GEOPAK. We have tracked this down to the following Preference setting... WORKSPACE…
  • Annotation Scale in PowerCivil GeoPak

    Has anyone had success getting this to work in SS2. Thought it might be fixed by this version. Had it working with text, cells, points, etc., then maximised the view and now instead of 50 scale the elements are 600 scale, i.e. 12 x 50. what happened?…
  • Re: Intersection of two surfaces as a line with real "Z" value

    CR: 1) Create a Delta TIN between the 2 surfaces. 2) Load the ZERO contour of that Delta TIN into your drawing (it will be at elevation zero). The zero contour is actually where the 2 original surfaces intersect. 3) Go to the DTM tool Drape>Vectors…
  • Inserting name of surface in plan, profile and cross-section

    I have been looking for this for a long time, and now it's time to ask the question to the people who might know the answer. I work with several seabed DTMs and often create profiles to view vertical shifts. Mostly I have one design survey with lots…
  • Roundabout Tool

    IR V8i SS2, MS V8i How do you bring the roundabout elements that are created in the Civil Roundabout tool into InRoads? In the earlier version of the Bentley Civil Roundabout Tool, you committed the MicroStation graphics to a geometry project. The…
  • Showing Features in cross sections (edge of road)

    Hello, I have an existing alignment that I am using as a center line to cut my cross sections, and I have a second alignment (edge of road) that I need to show as a point on the cross section. I need to show the distance and elevation of the second…
  • Civil 3D Pipe Network Conversion

    My company is trying to develop a way to utilize the intelligent Civil 3D Pipe Networks, but we are required by most of our clients to display all of our data in a 3D model in Microstation. I am trying to create a workflow to convert Civil 3D 2012 Pipe…
  • 3d Modeling for Mainline AND Side Roads

    I'm working on a 3d model for a mainline roadway with numerous side roads to produce a rendering using the 3d modeling tools in geopak V8i. The 3d model tools seem quite limited for this task, does anyone have a decent workflow to able to mesh/merge the…
  • Target Aliases: InRoads V08.09.03.06

    When I am using the Inroads Modeler and use two or more target aliases, then InRoads always targets the closest surface or corridor, even when "use closest" isn't checked. I was wondering if this is a settings issue or a version issue. Also if you know…
  • Corridor Modeler Cross Section Labeling error "Object variable or With block variable not set"

    When I try running the cross section labeling tool out of the Corridor Modeling window I get an error Run-time error '91': Object variable or With block variable not set I have the options to "End", "Debug", or "Help" "Debug" opens VBA…
  • Using BrowseTriangles() in a C# addin

    Does anyone know how to use or where I can find some documentation on the BrowseTriangles() function from the Bentley.Civil.DTM.DTM object. Bentley.Civil.DTM. DTM tin = Bentley.Civil.DTM. DTM .ImportFromGeopakTinFile(textTinFile.Text…
  • Re: Integrated civil platform

    Robert and Dan - Thanks for your replies. I think what Robert hit on is what I am looking for, that the new platform is in the works. From both of your replies I have a clarifying question for both of you, but first let me explain the context of the question…
  • Template Component Transitions

    I have a project that requires a curb along most of the alignment and sidewalk replacement behind said curb in certain areas. Right now I have the sidewalk targeting a feature and I have display rules set up so that it only displays when SW feature is…
  • [IR SS2] Survey: Custom Operations how to rotated to the actual line

    HI All, I like to know if I can rotate "InRoads Survey Custom Operations" like AC="Cellname" or 'Textlines with the acutal angle of the line that is already started: FWD:example POS 34 FCRD N: 5507977.325 E: 3405893.521 Z: 250.432 CODE WTRLN…
  • Adjusting traverse values in InRoads Survey

    Is there any way to adjust the traverse values (northing, easting, elev) in InRoads itself and it dynamically change all the other points that were shot from the reassigned traverse values? I've tried numerous ways and it still keeps the original values…
  • InRoads Explorer won't show

    I'm using InRoads V8i SS2. My InRoads Explorer window won't show and its not because I haven't tried Tools>Explorer Show/Hide. I've tried uninstalling MS/IR and installing the latest version ( V08.11.07.494), deleting my ucf and upf files, and also deleting…
  • Civil Applications Support Analyst

    Hi Everyone - I am currently seeking to recruit an experienced Civil Designer who is interested in a role with a focus on InRoads configuration / support. I've posted some detail below and would welcome any interest! Civil Applications Support Analyst…
  • Civil Accudraw accusnap problem

    Hi I use PowerCivil SS2 Civil accudraw (CAD) is messing with snap. So: When CAD is autoloaded i cant modifi line to snap perependicular (nomal accudraw - NAD - is not loaded) When NAD is autoloaded and CAD is not loaded, i can do this.…
  • Roadway Designer Target Aliasing

    Perhaps I am trying to use the wrong tool to do this, but I am having an issue trying to get my side slopes to draw correctly. I have a diamond interchange and I am currently modeling the ramps. I have a corridor "complete" for the mailine and the existing…
  • Re: Civil AccuDraw

    Mike, The help for Civil AccuDraw provides some insight into this. From MicroStation, select Help> Civil and then select Civil AccuDraw. Notice the following note in the Differences from MicroStation AccuDraw help file. • O shortcut is…
  • existing surface grade filtering slopes? Any ideas?

    I am trying to find existing slope conditions along a 280 mile corridor. I need locations where a 5% and 3% slope exist within 100ft of the track CL (rail). Is there anyway that I can set up some type of filter that will highlight the area where these…
  • InRoads SS3 - Civil commands not available after install

    After installing MicroStation SS3 v08.11.09.397 and InRoads SS3 v08.11.09.493 I am not seeing any of the Civil commands in my task menu. The machine I am installing on as a VMWare virtual machine (whilst we evaluate it) running Windows 7. I have tried…
  • Civil geometry complex element manipulator

    When creating an alignment on powercivil SS3 using the civil tools, object manipulators disappear when the alignment is very long, only manipulators for PI's remain and the ones for radius, lines, etc do not show except for the first few elements. Has…