• What is the difference between an Error and a Warning in Civil Message Center?

    When applying DOT design standards, warnings and errors both tell the user that DOT design standards has been violated. I do not understand the need to differentiate them. Can someone please explain the difference between an Error and a Warning in ORD…
  • cross section editing

    Hi, I am creating cross section sheet the value of lane slope is roundoff like 2.36% to 2.4%. How can i edit and precise my lane slope value in cross section sheet. Thanks
  • Editing in Station Offset Reports

    Hi all, I have a corridor of 4 Lane divided carriageway and I need to create a lane slopes report @ 10m interval. I ran the station base report . The camber/Lane slope in reports is calculating from centerline "CL" to carriageway edge "EOP" which is…
  • converting V8i Workspace to Connect

    So I have a bunch of work that was done in V8i and our company is switching to use ORD. I tried opening up some old DGNs and the fonts and styles, etc. were completely wrong. Is there a way to convert V8i workspace configuration over to ORD? I do not…
  • File Management and handling design options

    I am working on an interchange/urban expressway project that has around 20 alignments that all have some sort of connection to each other. We have separated them all into their own files, along with plan element and corridor files for each alignment.…
  • Design Cross Slope report values is not matching.

    I am trying to generate cross slope report @ 10 m interval by station base or station offset report but i am not getting appropriate values of cross slope in report. It seems correctly in cross-section view. Am missing something ?? Images is ready for…
  • Split Horizontal and Vertical Alignments into Two Separate Alignments in ORD 2021R2

    How to Split Horizontal and Vertical Alignments into Two Separate Alignments with maintain corridor?
  • profile station in sheet profile is showing uneven intervals after using chainage equation?

    Hi Guys, I cant figure out how to correct station intervals in my production profile sheet . After using chainage equation, ahead station of my profile showing unevenly. Regards , Lalit
  • OpenRoads Crossing Chains

    Hello, We are working on a DTM design project that was created in Open Roads Designer. Linework was extracted from the point cloud. We had several chain crossings to fix. Once crossings were fixed, we exported a chain crossings report that had zero…
  • ORD DWG Export issues

    Hi, Using ORD 2021 Release 1 and Autocad C3D 2022. Profile Geometry Annotation lose values in export, K-value and grade change to 0.0 and Lines are exported between Profile IPs on Layer 0. Please find the Images. Thanks Lalit
  • Manually set Rainfall Intensity for Inlet Computations in OpenRoads Designer

    Hello - I'm a new ORD user trying to get familiar with the VDOT - Civil workspace. In Virginia, for certain roadway classifications, the VDM requires the use of an intensity of 4 in/hr for inlet computations (Spread Width). Previously, in Geopak, I was…
  • ORD Measure Area anomaly

    I'm using ORD 10.08.01.33. I quickly made two dummy DGN files to test some weird behavior that I was seeing on a project: a.dgn contains a half-dozen lines & arcs that create a shape (but they remain individual elements and are not a chain or closed…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…