Download - InRoads V8i SELECTseries 1

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Michael CavanaughProduct Manager, Road and Site

InRoads V8i SELECTseries 1

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• Overview• MicroStation• Bentley Map• Surfaces• Geometry• Site Modeler• Roadway Designer• Quantity Manager and Volumes• The Items Browser

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Overview• Followed closely on the heels of the V8i

release• Goals

– Resolve customer reports – 360 resolved so far– Closer integration with MicroStation– Deliver a better user experience– Import of GIS information through Bentley Map– Implement Site Modeler– Extend the Roadway Designer into 3R projects– Easier visualization with Civil products

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MicroStation• Closer integration within the MicroStation

environment– Menus incorporated in the MicroStation Menu bar– Task workflow and Context menus– Menus in \data\dgnlib\InRoads_Task_Menus.dgnlib

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Explorer• Has a command to Show or Hide in

MicroStation

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Menus

• Task Worklows • Individual Workflows

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Context Menu• Right-click Context Menu

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Addition of Bentley Map• Added to the Suite Products

– InRoads Suite– Rail Track Suite– GEOPAK Suite– MX Suite

• Part of the installation• Provides for import of SHP files for GIS

information

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Surfaces• Resolve Crossing Segments

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Surfaces• Delete Triangles by Filter

– More options for removal– Creation of Exterior Boundary

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Geometry• Auto-Annotation of alignments during

placement and editing with design criteria applied

• New Simplified Horizontal and Vertical Element placement commands

• Additional Utilities for modification of geometry and traverses including– Metes and Bounds command– Segment alignment– Chain– Curve Fitting

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Geometry• Many more enhancements to commands for

ease of use– Horizontal and Vertical Table Editor operation

• Added K value for vertical curve parameter– Extended the point descriptions allowing lengthy

notations from Survey and URL links– Added Quick options to Horizontal and Vertical

Regression commands

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Auto-Annotation and Design Criteria

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Site Modeler• Debuted in PowerCivil for North America• Addition of the GEOPAK Site capabilities• Nomenclature changed to be consistent with

InRoads– Project, Site, Surface, Element

• InRoads surfaces can be added to Site Project• Results can be exported as InRoads surfaces

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Roadway Designer• Overlay component

– Stripping/milling• Removes material

– Leveling• Adds material

• Cross Slope Optimization• Vertical Alignment Smoothing• Creating components from the Roadway

Designer– True representation is much better than previously– Solid meshes make rendering the model easier

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Items Browser• Implementation for the future

– Attachment of data to design elements• Components, alignments, surface features, drainage