• Ticket Resolution

    Most of the time that I have tried to call and get help from Bentley they always want to create a ticket for my issue. my problem is that every time they do that it never gets resolved I feel like the ticket system is just a black hole where all my issues…
  • Batch Plotting best practices

    Fellow collegues, I am asking for the most effective way to batch plot several files. as of now we are doing individual sheets and is killing me. I have tried plot Organizer but I feel like it takes quite a bit of time to set it up. I have also used…
  • Placing relative associated note for station and offset

    OpenRoads Designer Release 3 Hello everyone, I am trying to label Station and Offsets that are linked to the geometry, that way if the geometry changes so will the note. What I have so far: A text favorite for STA and OFF, and a Dimension…
  • Openroads designer cross section labeling

    We’re trying to label our cross sections, and we are using a preset annotation group. For some reason we cannot get the tie in slopes to display. We tried using the “create list of segments tool” and that doesn’t seem to work right either. When I apply…
  • OpenRoads Designer - Road Maintenance

    Hello all. May I know, is there any road maintenance feature or elements in this OpenRoads Designer? If there, where can I access them?
  • Cross Section Editing

    Hello I am working in ORD for the first time and cannot find any tools that were similar to the Cross Section Navigator tools that were available in ss10. Are there any tools that I can use to create working lines in the cross section view? We want to…
  • How does one export a .shp file using OpenRoads Designer Connect?

    I have searched and searched the net looking for a solution and have found none. Is this not possible? I have even tried exporting the 2D linework to a V8i version drawing and export the shp file, but no luck.
  • Survey conversion from SS10 to Openroads Designer

    I'm trying to convert a pickup survey done in ss10 to Openroads Designer. I was able to export and import it using a land xml file, but when I import it into ORD the feature definitions do not display properly. It's almost like it is holding out to the…
  • Issue importing XML to terrain model in OpenRoads Designer

    I have a drawing from Civil3D, a .dwg, and I have a land xml that was created from that data set by original drawing creators. Also, there was a .dgn created from the same .dwg file, which has some visible contours shown in .dgn. When I view .dgn and…
  • Adding data to a surface without re-cleaning

    ORD 10.9.0.91 How can I add to an existing surface without having to redo all my clean-up? I have a boundary on my surface that helps me clip all the outside edges when editing a surface, but every time I need to add more data to areas outside this…
  • ORD Properties Menu "no content to display"

    Hi there, I'm using OpenRoads Designer. For some reason, when I have the properties menu docked it'll be working just fine. However, if I leave the properties palette docked and open a different .DGN, the properties menu will then display "no content…
  • OpenRoads - WorkSet Location

    For obvious reasons, projects are stored on a different location for our company's server. Does the WorkSet have to be in the WorkSpace folder?? Can I move this to a different location for existing projects? Thanks!
  • open roads designer keeps crashing

    hello I have updated my openroads designer to version 10.09.00.91. However anytime i try to open the dgn files on the student server, the software keeps crashing.The files in particular are those in the 2020 data set. i doubt the fault is from my…
  • ORD - Profile Drawing Production: Tabular Data - Graphical Lines

    Good day, I would like to find out if it is possible to customise the Profile Annotation Group to change the way ORD generates the tabular data for the horistonal and vertical data. I am specifically pointing to the way it generates the graphical lines…
  • OpenRoads Designer 2020 Release 3 use with Microsoft SharePoint

    We recently purchased OpenRoads Designer release 2 (10.08.01.33) and earlier this week, upgraded to release 3 (10.09.00.91) We also switched from GoDaddy to Microsoft 365 cloud based system which also gives us SharePoint. So we have all things Microsoft…
  • The full length of the lines is being highlighted even When they are trimmed.

    I recently started with ORD. I trimmed two lines using microstation trim to intersection tool. Even though they look like they are trimmed whenever I select the trimmed line it gets highlighted and the parent line is still showing to it's full extent…
  • OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition

    Hi, Is it possible to create design standards without any country kit installed? When I browse into the explorer and right click on it, seems no option to create a new one? I am using version 10.8.0.88 Thank you. Regards, Jenel
  • ORD Contour Line Scaling

    Hello everyone. I am learning to use ORD (specifically, OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition version 10.07.03.18), and I am experiencing an issue with scaling when referencing in a file. I am attempting to reference in a file which includes contour lines…