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Using InRoads V8i (SELECT series 2) V08.11.07.428 When I view the active horizontal geometry all my stationing and horizontal annotation gets deleted. Is there a lock setting I can change to stop this? I want to redisplay the centerline to change…

Does Bentley InRoads Site V8i currently support the AutoCAD 2013 platform? If not, when is this likely to occur and is there a commitment to continue supporting progressive AutoCAD platforms in future?

MicroStation V8i SS2 (08.11.07.443) and InRoads Suite V8i SS2 (08.11.07.494) New to supporting InRoads product.... Installed new MS and IR products after un-installing previous versions of both and deleted all directories left-over. During the…

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...

Is it possible to design/draw a sewer pressure pipe in InRoads or MX. We are evaluating the move away from PowerCivil.

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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?

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Hello! I have about 200 cells that I want to be rotated to it´s own feature line or rather have them perpendicular to the red line. Every cell should have its own specific rotate angle. In the Named Symbology Manager I have set the Angle Relative…

Hello there! I was trying to Get some Elevations from a Surface for some Cogo Points by creating a clearance report from the specified Surface, The issue is that when i checked the Northing & Easting of the Cogo Points, they were different than the specified…

v8i.: 08.11.07.443 / IR: 08.11.07.566 / Window 7/ NYC I have a drawing with a plan on the top, a match line and continuing with a plan on the bottom. The top plan containing a horizontal alignment, has reference files attached in the correct coordinate…

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…