OPEN ROADS FULL
The example shown at YII was of a central reservation, where the functional component was dropped onto a model road section and the reservation generated the full length of the road obeying all necessary design rules / construction codes. OpenRoads Designer uses elements Bentley calls ‘functional components’, which respond contextually to express appropriate design, annotation, and plan set display behaviours. All design can now be in 3D in this accurate terrain map.
OpenRoads ConceptStation could also be a kick off point and designs created in it can be opened in OpenRoadsDesigner, preserving all the work and data. Instead of working on a blank screen, the start point of a design would be a highly detailed mesh with photorealistic bitmap of what’s occupying the site now. The incorporation of reality meshes, imagery, point cloud, and other geo-coordinated data sources give the designer continuous context of real-world conditions throughout the design and construction lifecycle. It supports all the necessary elements of roadway design including survey, geotechnical, drainage, subsurface utilities, terrain, road, roadway furniture, and more. OpenRoads Designer completes the convergence of InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil. The net result is a CAD system that has the 3D response capability of a computer game with all the advantages and accuracy of a state of the art design tool. OpenRoads Designer is the first in a new line of design tools which combines the old world of documentation and modelling with meshed versions of the real world. This is the first model-centric creation tool for all design deliverables that we have seen and quite an incredible achievement given the timescale.Īs Bentley has a single platform solution in MicroStation, the integration of reality-meshes as a standard format means all of Bentley core products can work with photogrammetry derived meshed models, as well as 2D vector, 3D solid, 2D raster and 3D point cloud. Roll forward a year, however, and it looks like Bentley has really taken civil design to the next level with the introduction of OpenRoads Designer – a comprehensive multi-discipline 3D modelling application which takes design from conceptual all the way to detail design and construction, blending traditional engineering workflows for plan, profile, and cross-sections with 3D parametric modelling. Our early assessment was that Bentley was reacting to what Autodesk was doing with Infraworks (a visually rich conceptual design tool that will eventually get the documentation capabilities of Civil3D). Once the concept is approved the data can be passed on to the detailed design phase to accelerate project delivery. This greatly simplified 3D modelling came with easy-to-use engineering sketching and the ability to produce some fantastic renders and animations.įrom the 3D layouts it’s possible to assess associated project costs and share with project teams. This format gives us not only a sense of the capability but also the clear benefits of the latest products and changes that are deep under the hood and perhaps not as obvious.Īlongside last year’s acquisition of Acute3D we saw the rapid introduction of ConceptStation, a conceptual road network design tool which combines reality modelling (photogrammetry and laser scans) with conceptual design for infrastructure projects (road, bridge etc.).
This even relates to newly announced applications. Bentley Systems’ annual Year In Infrastructure (YII) event is a unique experience in that all of the company’s offerings and technologies are portrayed in context, as part of customers’ on-going projects.
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