1. OpenRoads Implementation
Eric Thomas, CADD Consultant
Office of CADD and Mapping Services

2. What is OpenRoads? A Technology, NOT a Product
From the Bentley Website:
“Common Technology embedded in InRoads, GEOPAK, and MXROAD”
“…the continued merging of functionality for Bentley’s civil products”
“Expands the products to include 3D Modeling integration with CAD, mapping, GIS, and business tools like PDFs, i-models, and hypermodels”
OpenRoads Implementation

3. Bentley OpenRoads Overview
What is OpenRoads?
Not a separate install
Installed with the Bentley Civil products
OpenRoads Horizontal Geometry tools first appeared in SS2
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

4. What is OpenRoads? GEOPAK SS3 Released Q1 2013
Includes OpenRoads tools & improvements
Software Functions Removed:
Corridor Modeler and related functionality
Roadway Designer and related functionality
Site Modeler and related functionality
Cut cross sections from DTM file
SS2 and SS3 can be installed concurrently
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

5. What is OpenRoads? SS3 Refresh released March 11, 2014
MicroStation SS
GEOPAK SS
Enhancements & fixes for early adopters of OpenRoads
Includes Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
A subset of SUDA without the analysis engine
Includes Descartes
SUE and Descartes require a separate license
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

6. Bentley OpenRoads Overview
What is OpenRoads?
Currently available tool sets:
Survey processing
Terrain Modeling
Horizontal and Vertical geometry
Superelevation
Templates/Corridor Modeling
Cross Sections
Civil Cells
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

7. Bentley OpenRoads Overview
What is OpenRoads?
OpenRoads does not currently include plan preparation tools
Revert to GEOPAK Road for plan preparation
OpenRoads Alignments, profiles, and terrain models can be exported for GEOPAK use
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

8. Future SS3 Updates Upcoming SS3 Refresh
Has been completed, awaiting final approval
Full GEOPAK install (not a patch)
Requires a MicroStation update (full install)
Enhancements & fixes for OpenRoads
Includes an update to Descartes
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

9. Next Generation Updates
The next major release will (?) remove InRoads, GEOPAK, and MXROAD from the Civil product line
OpenRoads will eventually become the civil product for all Bentley users
Release date has not been set
Resistance is futile…
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

10. ODOT Implementation Fall 2013 Winter/Spring 2014 Spring/Summer 2014
OpenRoads Survey Standards developed
Winter/Spring 2014
OpenRoads Survey training for ODOT’s Surveyors
Training guide available in the Standards
Spring/Summer 2014
ODOT’s Surveyors begin using OpenRoads
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

11. Bentley OpenRoads Overview
ODOT Implementation
ODOT running the following versions:
Design personnel:
MicroStation V8i SS
GEOPAK V8i SS
Survey personnel (currently migrating):
MicroStation V8i SS
GEOPAK V8i SS
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

12. ODOT Implementation Fall 2014 Winter/Spring 2015
First release of OpenRoads standards for Design
Winter/Spring 2015
OpenRoads training material developed for Design personnel
Tentative plans are to integrate the training into Bentley Learn
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

13. ODOT CADD Standards April 18, 2014 Release
Includes OpenRoads standards in a separate folder ODOTstd/V8istd/OpenRoads
Added User and Project configuration files:
ODOT_OpenRoads.ucf, ODOT_OpenRoads.pcf
Intended to be used with a SS3 installation to gain access to the OpenRoads Survey Standards
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

14. ODOT CADD Standards October 2014 Release:
OpenRoads Standards will be absorbed into the new ODOTcadd Standards folders
Will not be segregated in a separate sub-folder
New Standards will be developed and distributed for SS3 only.
No further updates to V8istd and SS2 planned
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

15. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Interface Changes:
No longer uses a Survey Project
Task Navigation Menu
Project Explorer
Context Menus
On-screen prompts
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

16. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
All data stored in the DGN
No longer uses the GPK file
No longer creates multiple report files in the project directory
3D files required for Survey Processing
Full Annotation Scale compatibility
Undo!
History of changes saved in a log file
OpenRoads Implementation

17. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
All data stored in the DGN (cont.)
Terrain Models stored in the DGN
Terrain Models are shared by referencing
Graphical edits update mapping and Terrain
Can be exported to GPK and TIN
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

18. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Feature Management via dgn libraries
ODOT_Feaures_Survey.dgnlib
Defines field codes read from ODOT.smd
Defines default survey project settings
ODOT_Features_Terrain.dgnlib
Defines features and element templates for terrain model display
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

19. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Supports multiple data types
Trimble, Leica, Topcon, LandXML, etc…
Customizable Text Import Wizard
Facilitates ASCII import in user definable data formats
Drag and drop data processing
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

20. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Geographic Coordinate Systems (GCS)
Establish position of data on the earth’s surface
Bentley Map
Integration with other Georeferenced data
Google Earth, Bing Maps, OSIP imagry, LiDAR data
Standard GCS definitions Included
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

21. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Geographic Coordinate Systems (GCS)
Allows for custom GCS definitions
Facilitates grid-to-ground conversions
ODOT GCS Recommendations:
Map data to the appropriate State Plane Zone
Establish custom GCS definition for grid to ground conversion
Define project specific seed files with custom GCS definition
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

22. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Attach media files to Survey Points
Images
Videos
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

23. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Data Integrity Concerns
All data is stored in the dgn file…
Lock elements in the DGN
Disable Survey Processing Rules (or not)
Use Windows to set user permissions/access
GPK and TIN files must be updated manually if changes are made to the survey information
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

24. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
ODOT Training guide is available in the CADD Standards:
..\V8istd\OpenRoads\TrainingGuides\ ODOT_OpenRoadsSurvey.pdf
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

25. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Survey
Enough with the power point, just show us how it all works…
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

26. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
Interface Enhancements
Tasks & Project Explorer
Context Toolbars provide access to common functions when a Civil element is selected
In-place editing
Heads-up prompts
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

27. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
Feature Management via dgnlibs and MicroStation Element Templates
A feature defines an objects apperance in multiple contexts
Plan, Profile, Cross Section, 3D, etc…
Features can define symbology from a DDB item or a MicroStation Element Template
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

28. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
Horizontal & Vertical Geometry Tools
New graphical based tools
All data stored in the DGN (no GPK)
Recommend using a separate Geometry Basemap
Import/Export to/from GPK
GPK and DDB still used for centerline stationing
Profile Model Views used to create, edit, and manage vertical geometry
Data is shared via references
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

29. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
Civil AccuDraw
New Superelevation Tools
Uses existing GEOPAK preference files for computation
New Superelevation Editor
CSV File Import
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

30. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
DGN Based 3D Modeling
No longer uses separate Roadway Designer
Integrates corridor and site based workflows to generate a single model
Templates can be applied to individual elements
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

31. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
DGN Based 3D Modeling (cont.)
Users can work in 2D
Horizontal & vertical geometry, superelevation, and templates are used to generate a 3D model on-the-fly directly in MicroStation
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

32. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
New Cross Section Process
No longer uses Criteria Files
Cross Sections cut from the 3D model
Anything you draw in the 3D model will show up in the cross sections, although they are not dynamic
New Cross Section Sheet Tool
New Cross Section Annotation Tool
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

33. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
Civil Cells
Reusable civil attributes such as driveways, intersections, traffic islands, etc…
Stored in dgn libraries
Based on design standards
Editable when placed
Can include horizontal & vertical geometry, terrain elements, and linear template definitions
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

34. GEOPAK/OpenRoads Civil
Demonstration…
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

35. Should I Start Using OpenRoads?
You need CADD Standards…
Survey Standards are currently available
Design Standards to come this fall
Bentley delivers a set of standards with OpenRoads in the Examples workspace
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

36. Should I Start Using OpenRoads?
Start Now:
Scope Survey sub-consultants to deliver OpenRoads compatible data:
Scope all data on State Plane Coordinates with a combined Grid-to-Ground Scale Factor
Request ODOT Field Codes and Mapping Codes
You can always import a GEOPAK TIN to an OpenRoads Terrain Model
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

37. Should I Start Using OpenRoads?
Start Now:
Familiarize yourself with MicroStation 3D
Learn Roadway Designer Templates
Experiment with the OpenRoads Horizontal and Vertical Geometry commands
Learn Civil AccuDraw
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

38. Should I Start Using OpenRoads?
Start Now:
Sign up for the ODOT & Consultants BE Community
Bentley OpenRoads Overview

39. Bentley OpenRoads Overview
Questions?
ODOT: Consulting:
Bentley OpenRoads Overview