• Transition to OpenRoadsDesigner from PowerSurvey (InRoads) SS2

    The company is currently beginning the process of transitioning from PowerSurvey SS2 to OpenRoadsDesigner. Apparently it's not as easy as just installing the software, pointing to your User/Project folder, and off you go. The setting up (as I understand…

  • OpenRoads Rules-based Superelevation SRL files

    Product(s): InRoads, MX, GEOPAK Version(s): 08.11.09+ Area: Superelevation Original Author: Jason Walsh, Bentley Technical Support Group Superelevation in OpenRoads can be calculated in two ways: Rules-based - using…

  • Import contour line as CAD, and generate surface.

    Dear Inroad User Community, How to import file cad of contour line to Inroad and generate surface. I try many way, but still can't Thank you.

  • Importing Pay Items

    Applies To Product(s): InRoads Version(s): V08.11+ Environment: N/A Area: N/A Subarea: N/A Original Author: Bentley Technical…

  • XIN Manager ?

    Re: XIN Manager ? by caddcop I have found that it is possible to create reports on many of the feature settings for the XML XIN reports and with those, develop a plan of attack for edits. The results can be very similar to the CSV export. Sadly, you…

  • Preference Manager

    Re: Preference Manager by caddcop I have also instructed users to find a "usual" preference for themselves and to save it as Default. Even when I have worked at a company where many preferences had been created, I usually taught the surveyors to take…

  • Contours Smoothing Method

    Hello there, I just have a simple question, is there any way that we can choose another method of smoothing of Contours in Inroads , for example in Geopak we have more than one one method of smoothing as shown below: Thanks...

  • 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.

  • Fill Slope Transitions / Parametric Constraints in the Roadway Designer

    Has anyone talked about the difference of modeling fills using a ration (e.g. 4:1) versus slope percentage (25%) particaularly regarding transitions? Example: A 2:1 slope transitioning to 4:1. One could expect the midpoint of this transition to be…

  • Cross Sections Components Not Displaying

    Hello, I am having trouble with some components in my cross sections not displaying. I have check the styles to make sure the display options are correct and they are since I have components of the same style displaying at different stations. Everything…

  • InRoads Laptop

    Hi all, I have been asked by a fellow InRoads user to find a spec for a laptop to be used on site for InRoads design updates, during construction. Through your experience with using InRoads on different machines, what kind of laptop should we be…

  • Lat/Long and .shp file import / export

    How do you import/export 1) Latitude/Longitude from a GPS file and 2) shape files along with the associated .sbx .dbf .prj .shx files? Thank you, -Nat.Adam@AtkinsGlobal.com

  • Edit multiple Cogo point elevations by specific distance

    I am using MicroStation V8i (SS2) InRoads (SS2) and need to adjust some cogo points elevations by a specific distance. For example, if I have a group of points with different elevations that I would like to raise or lower by 3" is there an easy way to…

  • Annotate Sections - Areas without points

    Hi guys, Recently we came upon a problem where the contractor wanted us to report on changes in the elevation of the existing surface, areas where we had no determined points. The image below shows the OG and our Muskeg surface. The below…

  • 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 Geometry Project - Access Control

    Running InRoads V8i - if I "check in" a horizontal alignment after making changes to it, must I save the geometry project in order to preserve my changes?

  • 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…

  • InRoads V8i Roadway Designer

    The modeler in V8i doesn't honor the graphics groups for features when you create a surface. This behaves differently than XM. The V8i modeler creates multiple graphics groups instead of a single one. Is there any workaround to get the surface features…

  • 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…

  • Generate Longitudinal Feature

    I am trying to generate a longitudinal feature, in this case an existing centerline, by offsetting an existing edge of pavement 12' and also a vertical offset of 0.24' (12' @ 2.0%). The existing feature selected has xyz values and when I generate the…

  • INI to XIN not all preferences translated

    We are having problem with translating our MS V8 InRoads ini files to V8i xin files. The translation works but most of our preferences that we created have not been converted. Is there a step we are missing or do we need to do something with our ini files…

  • InRoads Set-up

    Hi guys, I just started at a new company in OZ. They have recently installed V8i SS2 power InRoads. My colleague has decided this is the perfect time to redo their xin files and get them to where we want to have them, to be fully suited to our work…

  • InRoads plan and profile generator host file model

    When using the plan and profile generator, I cannot seem to specify the model in my host file in which the plan and profile sheets will be generated. It just defaults to the first model listed. Is there any way to tell the generator which model to place…

  • Microstation InRoads V8i SS2 and ProjectWise V8i Intergration on 64bit Win7 machine

    We are upgrading our workstations from 32 bit to 64bit win7. When I open a model from ProjectWise using InRoads Suite V8i, the model is simply opened in Microstation and InRoad is not loaded, I have to use MDL Load to manually load the InRoads, and the…

  • Cogo Point Elevations....

    I am not able to get Inroads V8i SS1 to display the elevations of cogo points even though they have elevations when I review them. And yes, I'm in a 3d design file. :)
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