• 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Direction of Depressions

    Hi, I don't fully understand the option 'Draw Depressions Couterclockwise' under the Advanced tab in the View Contours box. Why and when should this be used? Jean Castro
  • Inroads Storm and Sanitary FAA Regional Constants

    I am looking at calculating time of concentration in InRoads Storm & Sanitary. Using the FAA method, you are asked to give K1, which is stated as a "regional constant". Where can I find the relevant regional constants? Thanks, Jenna
  • 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…
  • Sewer pressure pipe in InRoads

    Is it possible to design/draw a sewer pressure pipe in InRoads or MX. We are evaluating the move away from PowerCivil.
  • Re: Custom Operations InRoads Survey Edit Window crazy Issue

    I am having the same issue and have had this issue through many versions of inroads. I have even gone into the XIN and edited the XML manually in order to try to make it work. But once you go back to the style in the GUI it will mess up the XML again…
  • InRoads XIN file from XM to Upgraded InRoads SS2

    We were recently upgraded to begin using Inroads SS2 from Inroads XM. I loaded our XIN file that was created in Inroads XM and discovered that there are some problems with the previsiously saved preferences in XM. After viewing the various new settings…
  • Re: Problem with my Xin

    Annotation Scale is a property of the model. It can be access from the model properties dialog or from the "Drawing Scale Tool" the drawing scale tools can be activated from the MicroStation Main menu > Settings > Drawing Scale. This Drawing Scale Tool…