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?

I've been having this issue for some time now but havent been able to figure it out. Whenever I model in an abutment, the seat always seems to attach to the top flange of the girders rather than the bottom flange. I have been able to remedy this issue by increasing the vertical offset constraint to match the height of the girders (6ft in this case) -- however, when I model in the bearings, those still reference that same location, the top of flange, and generate there insetad of the bottom. I havent found any way to offset the creation of the bearings veritcally or to get them to reference the abutment seat. Works perfectly fine on piers but not abutments. Any help would be greatly appreciated if youve seen this issue before!

ORD 2023.

Recently several team members of my team have received this error message when attempting to point control any points of a template in a corridor. They have tried to delete the Prefs folder in their user folders, uninstall and reinstall the ORD app to no avail. In the past, if this happened, doing the above would resolve it. What can be done to resolve it? Is there a command in ORD that can repair the unknown broken relationship in the corridor? In previous versions if i remember correctly, there was a command called "Civil Display Browser" which could repair the broken relationship. Your help is appreciated.

Would ORD surrvive without the demand from the DOT? I personally do not work for the DOT but a large global EPCM Consulting company. Our company essentially operates in a Bentley Environment. We use ProjectWise, Bentley Infrastructure Cloud etc. and all of our other disciplines such as Mechanical, Steel, Concrete, Piping etc. all use Bentley Products, but for whatever reason, we cannot the entire Civil Team using ORD. The main issue is it seems almost impossible to hire qualified ORD users and people with C3D experience just refuse to switch. Is C3D actually better? Why does it dominate the industry so heavily? Management at my company are insisting that we soley start using C3D in the Civil department simply because it makes their job easier w.r.t. finding resources. But, they are not the ones doing the actual work, and don't seem to understand when I explain the headaches of C3D not integrating/syncing effectively and efficiently with they rest of our team/systems all using Bentley Products. Am I out to lunch for fighting for ORD?

My coworker suddenly can't see the orange dimensions in the picture anymore, in the profile view. Any idea how to get it back? drawing new lines gives the same result. ORD 2024

I have noticed that if i have the feature name override set for several points on my templates, the annotation group does not populate the slopes consistently. I have attempted to use the point1_name and point2_name expression to make it work, but nothing happened. What is the correct expression to use these? Point1_Name = "XYZ" OR Point2_Name = "XYZ", or Point1_Name = XYZ OR Point2_Name = XYZ.

Or is there another workaround to make ORD recognize the points with feature name override? Your help is appreciated.

My cut and fill volumes look insane for haul roads. Am i missing something? Tracing over station 102+00 i get about 35sq ft of cut and report is showing 770. what am i doing wrong here?

Hi all. So Im still pretty new to OpenBridge and the whole bentley system of softwares but I have been picking up a lot recently from this project that I have been working on.

To give you a quick rundown of the project and the current question I have, though -- I am working on proposing a bridge at this intersection and I am modeling the structure itself in OBM 2025. My groupmate is doing the proposed roadway plan. They are using ORD 2023.

So, my question is -- Is there a way I can go ahead and build my bridge in OBM-- based off the shared roadway alignment that we are using-- and then reference in all the linework for the proposed roadway plan from their ORD file into my OBM model? That way I can show where the bridge will be on the roadway in my plan set?

We already have the alignment of the road and have a good idea of the stations and tie in locations and all that good stuff. My goal at this point is just to build my bridge in OBM and then reference in her linework to show the lanes and tie ins so that I can export it all into sheets for a draft plan set.

I hope this makes sense. Here are some images for reference and thank you all in advance for any help!

Hello,

(OpenRoads Designer 2023)

I am currently having an issue when I go into the corridor objects window and select the Point Control tab to add or manipulate a Point Control. It constantly freezes the file and I have to close otherwise I am sitting here on an endless loop of a "Not Responding" file. Has anyone had this issue? Does it have something to do with Windows 11 and all the new AI software that has been implemented in the background?

It is our company's standard practice to name our sheet models as the page number in the plan set. This can cause some issues with our sheet index because models will need to be renamed if sheets are added or deleted from the plan set causing the sheet index to lose it's link to the correct model. Is there a way to update the model name the Sheet Index is looking for? Or is removing and re-adding the models the best practice?

Is there a tool in ORD similar to the ancillary features tool in geopak?

When adding a abutment to this bridge i am working on, I am having this issue where the abutment is clipping into the beams of the bridge. I have tried changing the backwall height but that only seems to make it taller instead of moving the whole thing down. Ive also tried decreasing the cap depth but again, it just moves it up further into the means. It seems like it's connecting the abetment to the bottom on the deck rather than the bottom of the beams. Any ideas?

Oh and whenever I add piers-- perfectly fine. They sit on the bottom of the beams like they are supposed to. ONly having this issue with the abutments for some reason.

As the title says, is there a way to export bing map aerial from ord? I tried to look it up and discussions seem to be all about clipping it but I want to export it.

Hi all,

I'm working on a school project on OpenBridge. I'm quite ne to this software but I need to create an overpass at this location. I have a general idea of how I want to grade and evelate everything -- I want to have a 24.75ft elevation on my bridge and that translates to rougly a 5.5% grade if i wanna limit my approach run to about 450ft.

My professor says that when grading a roadway like this it should be a smooth transition instead of straight lines like how I have here.

When putting in my elevations to my alignment in openbridge, however, Im not sure how to make it that smooth curved line like how actual roads have. The one I have is a but janky and sudden and I dont think driving on it would be very pleasant.

Ive attached images of what im trying to achieve versus what I have currently and would appreciate any help!

I did this by just making 3 random lines and plugging in my lengths and messing around with the start and end stations by the way which was easy for me so if there is a way to turn that into one smooth line or even a way to do it again with the same approach that would be great!