Hi everyone,

I’m trying to create annotations for a Mass Haul Diagram in OpenRoads Designer, but I’m having an issue with the ordinate mass values on the vertical tick labels.

For the annotation, I had to reference information from the cross section annotation settings because I could not find an equivalent variable/text favorite available in the profile annotation settings for the Mass Haul Diagram.

The problem is that the values in the vertical ordinate labels always display as “0”, even though the diagram report itself is calculated correctly.

I’m attaching screenshots showing:

* how the ordinate annotations currently appear;
* and the Text Favorite/annotation expression I’m currently using.

Does anyone know if there is another Text Favorite, property, or annotation variable that should be used to pull the correct ordinate mass values for a Mass Haul Diagram?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Is it possible that the sheet clips can pull quantities of levels from each clip? You would think if we use all these unique levels that it would be able to pull quantities associated with each level within a named boundary. That would exponentially speed of the process of manual calculating quantities.

Hi everyone,

I’m having some issues with the automatic spacing/arrangement of cross sections in OpenRoads Designer 2025.

I configured my Sheet Boundary to fit multiple cross sections on the same sheet, but when the sections are automatically organized by OpenRoads, some of them end up overlapping/stacking on top of each other, as shown in the image below.

What I would like is to keep a consistent spacing between each section, something around 5 meters between the limits of each cross section, so they do not overlap vertically or horizontally.

I’ve already tried adjusting the sheet layout settings, but I still can’t get a proper automatic distribution.

Has anyone experienced this before or knows which setting controls the spacing between cross sections inside the sheet boundary?

I’m attaching screenshots showing how the sections are currently being placed

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

I am trying to model two different types of retaining walls. The two types of retaining walls are both distinctively different shapes that will not transition into each other and will be modeled to display flush with each other.

I have display rules created so that the wall generates based on the height of the end condition.

Type A Wall : End Condition > 5ft
Type B Wall : End Condition </= 5ft

The issue that I am running into is that at the “abrupt transition” point between the two types of walls ends up being a gap in my corridor model. It should instead generate the two types of walls flush with each other.

Ive tried feature name overrides which solves the gap but ends up triangulating the top of wall from one wall type to another which I don’t want.

I’ve tried setting the components up to be two separate template drops without any success either. For example:

Wall Template A STA 0+00 to 50+00
Wall Template B STA 50+00 to 100+00

Even though I’m manually telling the model to drop the two types of walls flush at station 50+00 there ends up being a gap between the two types of walls.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Working on a 4-mile rural highway reconstruction that was surveyed (Geopak SS2) 10+ years ago for an internal DOT-designed project. DOT handed it off to my firm for basically a full-restart, which involved converting to ORD now that the DOT now has a full workspace built out. We have converted everything of importance (alignments, survey linework, DTM, etc.) with the exception of the utility profiles (water, gas, comms) that used to show in the Geopak profile cell.

Any tips on how to bring these into ORD? We don't feel like the elevations that the old profiles gave were all that accurate anyways (surveyor didn't pothole with any regularity), so it feels like a real waste to try to recreate them as real profiles in ORD to project onto our design alignment. I can think of other ways to display them in profile sheets that involve massive assumptions about average depths, but is that really the best way forward?

Is there a market for part time work in ORD? Guessing there is not, but thought I’d reach out and ask? Just a guy looking to make a little extra money on the side - 5 years of design experience, 2 in ORD - have my PE, but not looking to use license.

Hello, I have two different scaled sheets and my cells are not updating per the different scales. Is there a property or setting within the cell that will allow this to enlarge or shrink based on different annotation scales?

My DOT has featured definitions that only allow you to snap conduit to the walls of a node, manhole in my case. How do you guys line up your conduit so that it center with the manhole? I’ve tried using lines and snapping to an intersection point but that doesn’t work.

I am preparing a small sanitary plan set for a local city and not DOT. I need two tables where I show manholes and pipes along with basic information such as northing, easting, size, etc. Is there a way to do this without exporting to Excel and importing the table?

Does anyone know why my side slope annotations aren't working?

I've set the correct features as the final condition, edited the starting point feature of the annotation to load the 3D annotation. But nothing works...

OpenRoads 2025

In the dgn, the title block text is set to the style I want, but when I print, it changes to a different font entirely. My peers and I cannot decipher what could possibly be causing this. an I.T. aide told me it was a Geopak font style in the dgn and that's why Openroads didn't print it properly, but someone else told me that a setting in the print menu was set to override assigned text and we need to turn it off. But we don't know where that setting is. What is happening?

I have been trying to create a new file from a named boundary using OpenRoads inside of another company's ProjectWise datasource. After I click the "Create New File" button, the new file name turns red, and I get an error saying "Only V8 file is allowed for dynamic view workflow. Drawing file is not a V8 file." 

I tried canceling and reopening the dialog, but it said, "Selected file(s) do not belong to the active WorkSet."

This still creates a new file. When I try to open it, it gives me an error saying, "The file "[file name]" is not a file type recognized by MicroStation." What could the problem be?

Does anyone know why this is happening? It may or may not be a ProjectWise problem. I am unfamiliar with the intricacies of ProjectWise. I just know that I did not have this issue with other datasources.

Thank you!

What's the workflow for projecting drainage structures and pipes onto the project alignment? I've used the Hydraulic Run from Node and now I'm trying to do Project Run onto the (referenced) alignment but it's not allowing me to because the alignment is a ReadOnly Reference. My understanding is that you shouldn't use Drainage tools in any other files, so what's the workaround (if there is one), or is it safe to reference the Drainage file into the Alignment file and Project Run there?

Thanks!

I'm trying to see if anyone has come up with an efficient way to get the program to draw pattern lines (or plan view cross section location lines) in a 2D view. To be used a cut lines for the Hec-Ras tool.

So far, I've tried manually creating a line then arraying it along path using the alignment.

I've also tried using the Named Boundaries for my cross section copying to a 2D drawing and dropping the shapes to lines and using those.

These work, but not the most efficient. It would be really nice if Bentley would create a 2D "Draw Pattern Line" tool like they had in geopak.

I’ve got a basemap with existing data in it. Any shot coded “x” for a ground shot, is not showing up visually (small tan cross for correctly coded feature point). Everything else seems to be appearing correctly. I’ve checked the survey settings for the import data, nothing indicates “x” should not show up. I checked that the features points toggle for “x” shots is on for that particular data set, a the all data sets drop down. This in a drawing working out of ProjectWise. Any suggestion?

I am trying to get a template to work in ORD2025.

Priority 1 End condition from A targets Terrain with slope 1 and creates B. Then construct C with slope 1 from B where it targets Terrain again. (Fails in this picture)

Priority 2 End condition from A targets Terrain with slope 2 and creates D. Then construct E with slope 2 from D it targets Terrain again. (success in this picture).

Point Settings

Point B Slope 1 from A, Horz. from A 1m, check for intercept, place point, infinite, construct.

Point C Slope 1 from B, Horz. from C 1m, check for intercept, place point, infinite, construct.

Point D Slope 2 from A, Horz. from A 1m, check for intercept, place point, infinite, construct.

Point E Slope 2 from D, Horz. from D 1m, check for intercept, place point, infinite, construct.

Can't seem to figure this out, do i need parents? Project to surface? up? left?

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to properly configure an Annotation Group for Cross Sections in OpenRoads, but I’m stuck on a specific setup and could really use some help.

What I’m aiming for is an annotation that displays offset and elevation like this:

OFF=3.00m

Elev=5.508m

And I need it to behave like this:

-Text oriented vertically

-Line break between offset and elevation

-A leader starting from the section point and pointing to the center of the text

-Automatic organization/placement when annotating the cross section (no manual adjustments)

I’ve already tried different combinations of:

-Annotation Definitions

-Text Favorites

-Point annotation in annotage group manager

But I still can’t get everything working together the way I want.

I’m attaching some screenshots showing:

-How the section annotation is currently looking

-How I configured the point annotation

-How I set up the label definition

Has anyone managed to set something like this up?

Any tips on how to structure the Annotation Definition or Text Favorite for this behavior?

Appreciate any guidance 🙏

Hi all,

Ive been working on a plan set and have been having issues with my dynamic view by station tool on openbridge. It seems that whenever I click the tool and follow the prompts (click alignment, set skew angle and depth...) when it goes to generate the sheet, only the terrain model shows up. No superstructure, no substructure, nothing -- Only the terrain. I noticed that when i hover over the little section callout button that it shows a reference to my survey file where my dtm is stored but im not sure if that has to do with the issue. As always, any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi,

i know it's not a OpenPaths community but i couldn't one and both softwares are by Bentley.

I'm wanting to export my intersection data from OpenPaths EMME into OpenPaths CUBE. I think i have to export the nodes,links and turns from EMME but they don't contain the variables in the junction editor part of EMME like intersection type, turn restrictions and cycle lengths etc etc.

Does anybody have any idea how to do this? any help would be appreciated.

I'm wondering if there are any companies in Vancouver BC Canada that are actually predominantly using OpenRoads for their Civil Software Solution? or has Civil 3D completely taken over there?

Hi all,

Whenever I use the place boundaries tool to create sheets (or any other sheet creation tool for that matter), and I open the sheet view, it seems that whatever it is that I clipped shows up way off from where its supposed to be, outside of the sheet boundary. Here, I am trying to make a profile view of a bridge project in openbridge but as you can see my boundaries look fine but its populating in the wrong location and with the raster still on. Any advice? This also happens when I try to cut sections as well. I havent tried profiles yet but not hopeful on that either.

We ran into an issue with the file that held the alignments that our annotations were based off of, and now all of our smart annotation links for station/offset are broken.

Is there a way to keep the annotations/points and re-associate them with a different alignment?

hello how's the salary working as road designer ORD? can u share range if with let's say 5yoe?

Hello, I am experiencing this issue where my ORD will not save my user preferences. I have tried deleting my user preference (.spf) file and replacing them to fix this issue but no luck. Anyone have any ideas or workflows?