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    • Re: Power Civil: Road Intersection Tool

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Neil, this is a known limitation of the roadway tools. I've found that the ebst solution given this situation is to design the second intersection manually using the Edit Profile tool. That will be teh quickest alternative and saves…
      • over 14 years ago
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    • Re: Contour lines jagged, not smooth

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi David, can you post some sample data - so we can take a look? Thanks,
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Geopak Site - Extend slope

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Not directly. Do you have a typical design scenario where this is used or would be used?
      • over 14 years ago
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    • Re: InRoads V8i SS1 - Import Surface DEM (tif?)

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi again, the other Data Aquisition workflow is this: 1) Open Data Aquisition 2) Drag and drop the TIF file (from Windows explorer) into the Data Aquisition data tree panel. 3) The surface will be created. Note -…
      • over 13 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Print Organiser issue within PowerCivil.

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Similar to the problem that has been discussed earlier for GEOPAK, the Print Organiser has a similar problem within PowerCivil. Follow these instructions to ensure the probelm does not effect you. ______________________________________________________________________________________…
      • over 14 years ago
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    • Re: Power Civil: One Alignment for 2 objects

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi neil, its a known limitation that you cannot have more than one combination of Chain/Profile + Comp Section in the same Object. There is a work-around... maybe 2 work-arounds. 1) Place your first Chain/Profile/Comp Section combination…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Exporting 3d Tin to Topcon GPS

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      G'day Matt, I can offer a couple of suggestions. 1) DTM>Utilities>Export DTM. There is an option to export the DTM to a Topcon TN3 file. I believe that this is the machine control data file that can be imported into Topcon machine control…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Geopak - duplicating a model

      Pete Wlodarczyk
      Pete Wlodarczyk
      We have a project were we created our model of proposed wetlands ponds within our existing surface. We would like to take that model (common base information) and develop several alternative wetland designs to analyze and present. We though we could use…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Comp sections not working

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Frosty, Robert is right on the mark. The two things that typically will cause Comp Section a problem are 1) Symbology and 2) Search distance. Using DDB Items as a habit will help remove the Symbology issues. And, as Robert…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Bentley Civil Platforms

      scottyb
      scottyb
      Hi, my company is about to make the leap and buy one of the Bentley Civil packages. I'm the only one in the office familiar with Bentley, and I have never used anything other than plain old MicroStation. I've requested information from and had come contact…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Elevation Differences>Cut/Fil Grid> FILL

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Thomas, Like Dan, the fill appears to be working as expected on my install of the same version of PowerCivil. The Fill toggle and the View setting would be the places to start looking. HTHs
      • over 13 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: GeoPak Drainage (cross-posted in Water/Wastewater forum)

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Robert, there is a field on the Node dialog specifically for this purpose. You can add the Base Flow (Q) or Base Area ( your choice which data you want to use ) and it will be added to the pipe system BUT not to the surface inflow of…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: GeoPAK Drainage - Create a Drop Inlet in DLB

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Ryan, looking at the referenced PDF, it appears as though that inlet is a "field inlet"; not designed to be incorporated into a kerb line but to be placed is a sag/sump situation in an open area. Is that correct? If yes, then the "trick…
      • over 13 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Plan View Labeler problem

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Neil, if, after trying Dan's suggestions, you still have problems, please contact Support and have them assist. I haven't seen this issue before and the Labeler tools have been available for a long time, but there could be something…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Creating Site Elements by Section

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Chris, the answer to this question is similar to the response from Derricke on your previous question. The MS config variables for Cells need to be set to include the path of and cell library name of the CEL file you are setting up. …
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Integrated civil platform

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Dusty, The Modeler component of GEOPAK is specifically designed to deal with "non-linear" design situations that you would encounter doing stream/river/ditch/channel redesign and restoration. We have a number of custromers using Modeler…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Help needed DTM advice

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Dan, I'm unfamiliar with this file type... I dont know what format it is. If it is ASCII column based data, then we should be able to import it with GEOPAK. There does not appear to be an import option for this file type in MicroStation…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Message: Error Building Site Model

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi Chris, Short answer is that there are a few possible reasons for the message. 1) The data within the project (maybe some element within one of the objects), is causing problems for the triangulation engine. This is unusual, but possible…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Power Civil: Contour Labeling

      Chris Albany
      Chris Albany
      Neil, I find the best way to label the contours is to use the settings is the "Load DTM features" dialog box. Here you can specify the text font, size, colour, level, decimal places and most importantly, the distance between labels. …
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      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
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    • Re: Geopak - Adding Vertices to an element in site modeller

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Hi again, the first time you use the Edit Profile tool on a series of Site Elements there is a toggle on the Profile Cell dialog to store the elements to COGO. Enable that and the plan elements will be stroed as a Chain when you select them. The…
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: License for PowerCivil for Americas V8i V 08.11.05.39

      Chris Albany
      Chris Albany
      I am still awaiting license files and have not had any response from Bentley Support on this issue yet.
      • over 14 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Re: Cell scaling issue

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Not really.. but there certainly is something different. Send me the DGN files.
      • over 13 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Cannot reduce a Leica DBX file (PowerCivil GEOPAK)

      Chris Albany
      Chris Albany
      PowerCivil V8i Select Series 1 V 08.11.07.229 Tried to create a new dataset using a Leica DBX file as the data source (see image 1) and get the following error (see image 2); "This application has failed to start because DataBase1200_VCB…
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      • over 13 years ago
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    • Re: Power Civil: SMD Feature dialogue

      MichaelGilham
      MichaelGilham
      Neil, as you have found, there is a limitation on the number of characters thatcan be used as a feature inside COGO. Copy the "Default_Parcel" SMD feature to a new (shorter) name and use that name as your COGO feature. The "Default_Parcel…
      • over 13 years ago
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite
      • OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum
    • Roundabouts 2D >> 3D

      Henny Kooijman
      Henny Kooijman
      Hi, The 'new' roundabout tool creates a 2D model/drawing in Microstation, then converts the data to the requested program like MX or Power Civil or GeoPack or Inroads. During working with it I found it more than difficult to convert…
      • over 14 years ago
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