OpenRoads Designer users have at their fingertips comprehensive geotechnical tools that allow them to connect directly to gINT geotechnical databases to incorporate subsurface terrain details into their models for improving grading and piling. OpenRoads Designer also has reality modeling tools to incorporate and edit all reality modeling data types, including the capability to extract ground-level features from reality meshes and LiDAR as well as to reference point clouds and imagery. Users may switch discipline perspectives, for example from road design profile to subsurface utility profile. It integrates support for each discipline with specific user profiles dedicated to each discipline. OpenRoads Designer offers multidiscipline support.
Changes in one view are live and dynamically update all views. Design models are expressed in multiple live views, including plan, profile, cross section and 3D.
These inherently respond contextually to express appropriate design, annotation and to plan set display behaviours. It then creates compelling presentations with engineering precision.Īll detailed design in OpenRoads Designer is driven by functional components.
OpenRoads ConceptStation enables rapid conceptual and preliminary design, leveraging existing context captured through reality meshes, point clouds, GIS and other sources. Users can directly progress conceptual designs created with OpenRoads ConceptStation, preserving all work and data. However, it adds many powerful innovations. OpenRoads Designer completes the convergence of InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil. The incorporation of reality meshes, imagery, point cloud and other geo-coordinated data sources provide continuous context of real-world conditions throughout design and construction lifecycle. OpenRoads Designer supports all aspects of a detailed roadway design including survey, geotechnical, drainage, subsurface utilities, terrain, road, roadway furniture and more. It blends traditional engineering workflows for plan, profile and cross sections with 3D parametric modeling to enable the model-centric creation of all design deliverables. OpenRoads Designer is a comprehensive, multi-discipline 3D modeling application to advance the delivery of roadway projects from conceptual design through construction.
The BIM advancements in OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition are so compelling that we and our users are excited to take full advantage as soon as possible of this next generation in roadway design software.” “We have conscientiously preserved concepts and continuity from GEOPAK, InRoads and MX. “OpenRoads CONNECT Edition is the culmination of three decades of Bentley leadership and experience gained from thousands of roadway projects around the world,” explains Bhupinder Singh, chief product officer of 4019 Bentley Systems.
The announcement was welcomed by conference attendees as an important component of the overall OpenRoads CONNECT Edition - successor to Bentley’s industry-leading civil engineering brands InRoads, GEOPAK, MX and PowerCivil (see box on p35). On November 1, at Bentley’s annual global client gathering and awards event Year in Infrastructure Conference in London, the solutions provider announced that OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition would be available for early access on December 1. In fact, they had a hint of what was going to be under their tree come the celebrations in December. The beginning of this year saw Bentley Systems launch a major advanced comprehensive global tool for today’s increasingly widespread BIM environmentĬhristmas 2016 came early for Bentley's global clients.