OpenRoads

Standards

OpenRoads Designer Documentation

• Status of OpenRoads Designer Transition
• Connect Edition Introduction 
• MicroStation Connect Documentation 
• OpenRoads Drawing Names 
• OpenRoads Designer Documentation (Survey) 
• OpenRoads Designer Documentation (Design) 
• Appendices 

All links below refer to the older (v8i) version of OpenRoads that was accessed through InRoads or MX.

 

Design Software Growth

• Welcome to OpenRoads
• What are Models? 
• Civil AccuDraw

Strings & Models

• Survey Feature Codes
• Feature Definitions

Files

• NHDOT Seed Files

Preparing Drawings

• Seed File, Tasks, Tools and Settings
• Create Project Drawings

Procedures

Terrain Drawings (MX)

• Create Terrain Drawing Features - Introduction/MX work
• Part 1 - Create Terrain from MX Triangles
• Part 2 - Create Bridge Terrain from Features - Skip if there are no Bridge Structures
• Part 3 - Create Existing Features from MX Strings
• Part 4 - Goto SUE part 2 - Existing Drainage - MX Subsurface Strings
• Convert MX Point Strings to 3D Cells for Visualizations
• Terrain from Elements

Terrain by LiDAR

• Acquiring LiDAR Data
• Create Terrain From LiDAR Data
• Draping Aerial Photos over Terrain

Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE), These pages describe future development not yet implemented.

• Part 1 - Displaying & Editing MX Subsurface Strings
• Part 2 - Creating SUE Data
• Part 3 - Using SUE Modeling Tools NOT SS4 (.878) compliant, proceed at your own risk

OpenRoads Alignments

• Creating Horizontal and Vertical Geometry
• OpenRoads Alignment Tools
• Annotating OpenRoads Alignments
• OpenRoads Alignment from MicroStation Complex Chain
• Create Existing Ground Elevation Feature for Sections

InRoads OpenRoads Alignments

• InRoads OpenRoads Project setup and feature definitiion
• Transfer Civil Geometry and Draw a Profile with InRoads
• Annotating Alignment Curve Data

Corridor Design

• Creating Corridors
• Templates
• Constraints
• Creating Corridor Boundaries
• Displaying Dynamic Cross Sections

Designing a Side Road

• Part 1 - Create Side Road Horizontal and Vertical Geometry
• Part 2 - Place and Modify Intersection Civil Cells
• Part 3 - Delete Main Line Shoulders and Slopes
• Part 4 - Create Side Road Corridor
• Corridor Design Stages

Cross Sections

• Creating Cross Sections
• Cross Section Annotation Overview
• Annotating Existing Elevations
• Creating Right-of-Way & Environmental Features
• Creating Cross Section Detail Features (from OpenRoads Features)
• Creating Cross Section Detail Features (from MX Topo)

3D Data for Construction

• 3D Files for Construction
• Alignment Data for Construction
• Generating i-models
• Creating Surfaces for Output to Construction

Extras

Help

• OpenRoads Videos and Tech Notes from Bentley

Other

• Programmers File Editor (PFE)