Hi Everyone, Our firm is having a recurring problem with our cross section labeling. We are creating our cross sections from corridor models. Once we have the cross sections cut, we only have 50-75% of the necessary cross hairs populated to annotate…

I am a student and want to learn how to use this software. How do I use it for free. I sent my information to Bentley, but they never returned.

Hello all, Is there any book on Bentley PowerCivil which I can find beside Help? Can anyone recommend some book with exercises, which is newer then year 2000? And if yes, where can I find it? Thanks, Narcis

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?…

Where can I find a sheet which compares functionalities of PowerCivil, InRoads and Geopak?

Is it posible to obtain a line as a result of intersection two surfaces? But the line should have a real "Z" from one of the intersected surfaces (de facto should lie on one of the cutted surfaces).

I have Modeler preferences set up for Power Civil XM. When I load them into Power Civil v8i, the settings for my objects don't update. Is there an incompatibility issue? How do I get my preferences into v8i?

I saw in help that power civil can creates cross section in tunnels, but I can´t get the tool tunnel surface. I already check all application add-ins. Thanks in advance

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.…

In Power Civil (Geopak) I need to know the slope or grade along arc elements. The Height/Slope analysis tool is not able to do this, nor do I know of any other tool that can, aside from the Element profile tool which is too cumbersome for doing slope…

When placed the frame and the text are not on the same hight. Also the frame frame lines are double or even fourfold. PowerCivil V8i SS2 08.11.07.535 Elar

After having made a query to select 41 manholes, I want to change the material. The present material is not in the dat (structure) file, but i can change other manholes which had materials that wasn't in the dat (structure) file. Wats up? Tried shuting…

Have one feature code that is not being recognized. It does not visualize and when looking at the points with that code in the survey editor the Geometry column is blank, i.e. no P for Point. The feature code is: 10 and there are other codes such…

I have a parking lot object built from edge of pavement elements with curb sections applied to the pavement elements. I have created seperate sidewalk objects by draping elements for the sidewalk on top of the curbs in the parking lot object. When I edit…

Is it possible to obtain component quantities report and volumes for an area template, if so how is it done regards, Juan Solorzano

Hi, Can anyone check/confirm if this Powercivil V8i SS2 (08.11.07.535) can be compatible with MXRoad V8i SS2 (08.11.07.494)? I mean that I heard this Powercivil (535) version causing MXRoad (494) not stable/crashing. I'm going to install this…

Hi, I have a bahty data, from which i have created the surface. and created an alignment for my pipeline. I need to drape this pipe on the seabed! what is the process to achive this. moreover, i need to see the pipe in profile! awaitng…

Hi. Is there a way. or macro or somthing to pattern area (Geopak PowerCivil v8i SS2) so that the cells stay in tact and like chess board. Elar

I am trying to figure out to use the Survey module in Power Civil (Geopak version). I have field survey data in a comma delimited NEZD file. I want to display the points in my DGN with the actual point descriptions. The help file is not very clear about…

HI, Is there a way to convert modeled features to standard element so the files can be exported to DWG, when saving a modeled corridor to DWG I get all the features tangled, specially non continuous features such as CUT / FILL. regards, …

I have been trying to use the new tool in Power Civil v8i to create a LandXML file from a Land Desktop project (UILauncher.exe). Once the LandXML file is created, how do I import the data into Power Civil? The XML file may contain several surface…

Hi I'm currently coding some VBA macros to automate the storing and plotting of COGO data from the standard spreadsheets my company uses. Reading the data from the spreadsheets is no problem. Where my programming dreams hit a wall is when I try to input…

Assuming one spends a bunch of time customizing the toolbar layout while using the default user interface and then decides to create a new user interface, is there a way to simply "save-as" or copy and rename the default user interface (in order to avoid…