• Terrain Model Include/Exclude Field Codes

    I am porting our current PowerInroads workflows over to OpenRoads and have successfuly converted the XIN file and have all that setup. What I CANT figure out is how it has decided to include certain points and exclude some. I am importing ascii data into…

  • SIG Virtual Workshop: OpenRoads – July 10, 2019 – You're Invited!

    OpenRoads Special Interest Group: A Practical Introduction to Survey in OpenRoads Designer Kevin McDonald Senior Manager – Technical Support Bentley Systems, Inc. 10 July 2019 09:00 A.M. EDT 05:00 P.M. EDT Register Now Invite your colleagues…

  • Invert In and Invert Out Elevations for OpenRoads Designer

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.06.00.38 Area: General Question: How can I apply invert calculations within OpenRoads Designer as I did with Survey Custom Operations in InRoads SELECTseries 2? Answer: …

  • Survey Text File and Linking Code

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.05.00.30 Area: Survey Question: I am having problems bringing in the survey code. I believe I do not have the correct format of survey text code. What is the correct format (what…

  • showing survey comments. OpenRoads

    I am importing survey points and when I do my field comments are not coming in. I assign the Note and that shows on the Text Import Wizard. however that does not come into the drawing. is there any way I can get this to show on my plans. thanks for your…

  • Open Roads - Field Book Survey File Import - Points Codes With Comments

    Hello, my survey department is starting to move away from using the Geopak/GPK method of importing survey data into our basemaps. Almost always, our text files from the field crews have comments associated with the codes for each point. such as descriptions…

  • Write line numbers to points for ASCII export

    I have a client that insists that all his deliverables be in the form of an ASCII list file. This was not a problem when working with SS2 GeoPak, but we have moved forward to ss4 OpenRoads and are hitting a road block. The client wants to see a file…

  • Open Roads Designer Survey

    Hi Guys, I used to work in Microstation Powercivil SS2 before for importing my survey information. I used to upload all my raw data from my total station to Powercivil SS2 through Survey<Dataset<New and upload my .csv file into it. It used to create…

  • OpenRoads Designer Survey from CSV

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10.04.00.48 Area: Survey Question: Our company uses a trimble data collector, so we pull our results into a .csv file. I am having trouble finding anything that helps me with importing…

  • OpenRoads Designer Survey Link Codes and TXT file Import

    Product(s): OpenRoads Designer Version(s): 10+ Area: Survey Question: I am having problems bringing in the survey code. I believe I do not have the correct format of survey text code. Also, what is the correct format (what…

  • InRoads Survey Delete Duplicate Points

    Hi All- I am learning InRoads Survey (V08.11.07.615) )SS2) and I cant figure out how to delete duplicate points within my .FWB (Fieldbook) file. There were a huge amount of duplicate points when importing (thanks Survey!) and I cant figure out how to…

  • Open Roads Connect Edition Update 2

    Hey guys, I am a new user of Open Roads. I deal with importing survey files into the computer and have questions about how to add point features and how to add linear features to my survey data? I used to use Power civil select series 2 where I would…

  • Openroads Designer - Terrain modeling, equivalent command from Inroads native for importing feature as draped breakline?

    Hi, is there a way in Openraods designer to import breaklines ang get them to drape only on vertices of the surface? I have a topographical map with text elevation and lines that passes from point to point, but everything is in 2D. I can import the text…

  • SIG Virtual Workshop: OpenRoads - February 14, 2018 - You're Invited!

    Join Bentley's Joey LouAllen for the next OpenRoads Special Interest Group (SIG) virtual workshop, Moving to OpenRoads Designer – Terrain Modeling , on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. Sessions are set for 9 a.m. EST or 5 p.m. EST and share the same agenda…

  • OpenRoads Designer SMD/XML files

    Hello, I'm a new user to OpenRoads Designer (Connect Edition), having previously worked in GEOPAK years ago.. My question is, does OpenRoads Designer use a xml or smd file for reading survey PCODES like I used to have in GEOPAK? If so, where do you…

  • ORD 2, how do I process data with spaces in description of survey data?

    So, trying out the ORD Survey part. I can get it to process my field data. YAY! I cannot get it to keep my description as one point. IF I shoot "ipf 1/2 noid", I get four points with unique feature definitions "ipf" "1/" "2" "noid" with same coordinates…

  • Single offset tool

    When can I use the horizontal and vertical geometry tools in Open Roads. If I want to offset a linear element in the survey database I get the following message: Are the tools shown below not functional with the linear elements generated from the…

  • Caice pt4 file import issue

    I have a Caice dataset (pt4). This file will not import to SS4. I'm looking for a brave soul who would try to import the data to the attached seed file. I need to verify where the problem is. Is the issue on my PC or is it the .pt4 file? You'll have to…

  • RE: Survey Chains

    caddcop: I'm not an active Inroads user. I use OpenRoads with Geopak. I use the linking codes all the time between C3D and Geopak. In fact being able to adopt our land development side workflow and coding system into OpenRoads has allowed us to double…

  • Drape 2d dgn elements onto GEOPAK TIN file - How to?

    I need to drape 2d dgn lines and curves onto Geopak TIN file? I found the tool but sure about the settings and workflow. Did a search of the Geopak help files did not produce results. The work is very distilled below: 1. Client provides source files…

  • Survey data migration SS3 to SS4

    This topic has been dealt with briefly in the following post. Migrating a project from SS3 to SS4 Verified Answer I have been working extensively on a project in SS3 and I am wondering if any problems…

  • Survey SMD chain label

    I need to label pipe sizes. The label needs to be along the survey chain. Is this a function of the SMD file? Is this possible in geopak?

  • Linear feature description incorrect

    When chains are created by using the linking command "JoinPoint" the chain description does not use the first point in chains description. Instead it adds the description "JoinPoint Chain" to the feature. When labeling macros are applied to the survey…

  • RE: Openroads Designer Connect

    Joaquim, about a week ago Bentley's Ian Rosam posted in the Early Access forum that: "We are working on added and updating Survey functionality in a subsequent release. OpenRoads designer can consume the SS4 survey resulting model output and you maintain…

  • Comma separated control file format

    Import format allowing error estimates to be imported with control coordinates. Such as: name,northing,error estimate,easting,error estimate,elevation,error estimate,code
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