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- Design in context of reality
- Reuse design elements
- Model design intent
- Integrate across disciplines
OpenRoads
Roadway design software
Including 3 training credits
Perform conceptual designs during the preliminary and planning stages
OpenRoads ConceptStation is a road network conceptual design software. It allows you to rapidly create conceptual designs during the preliminary and planning stages of your infrastructure projects. The software lets you quickly jump-start your project and improve the decision-making process with roadway and bridge design capabilities. Intelligently model road and land development in context using real-world data and cost analysis to improve your project results.
Create conceptual designs
You can create multiple design scenarios with associated costs to make better decision and optimize road and bridge designs. Quickly load your historical bid tabulations to ensure realistic cost information to help determine the best alternative to move forward into detailed design.
Draw road and bridge designs
Easily draw roads, ramps, bridges, guardrails, streetlights, and more with engineering-friendly drawing capabilities. You can ensure industry standards are adhered to in your design.
Incorporate contextual information
Model in a real-world setting when you locate and download data-rich context information. Easily import data from your GIS to create intelligent 3D models letting you jump-start your conceptual design process.
Render in real-time with cinematic quality
Easily communicate with stakeholders using stunning photo-realistic visualizations.? In just seconds, you can access a dynamic immersive visualization engine platform to create natural looking light and shadows, real-time global illumination, IES point and spotlights, lens flares, and luminous materials. Interactively adjust time of day, add lens flares, and apply depth of field while benefiting from highly accurate reflections, anti-aliasing, and motion blur.
Transition conceptual design to detailed design
Improve your workflow and move your optimized conceptual design to the detailed design phase in OpenRoads Designer while maintaining geometric integrity. This helps you to accelerate project delivery and deliver better design quality.
Design Bridges
- Place bridges
- Simple two clicks bridge placement
- Number of supports automatically determined from the bridge length
- Can set girder type, support type, abutment type, wing walls
- Can set bridge deck template
- Superelevation determined automatically (Method 5)
- Edit bridges
- Simple editing of Horizontal and Vertical
- Change girder type, support type, abutment type, wing walls
- Change number of spans/supports, number of girder
- Rotate supports, move/skew abutment
Design Intersections
- Place intersections
- Simple placement
- First roads selected sets the elevation of the additional roads
- Default radius and taper
- Default intersection marking
- Edit intersections
- Modification of taper length and offset
- Modification of radius
Design Ramps
- Place ramps
- Connects two roads with the desired alignment
- Automatic auxiliary lane creation based on design speed
- Default taper length, taper width design radius, gore radius
- Default marking
- Edit ramps
- Modification of taper length, taper width design radius, gore radius
- Ramp Designer
Design Roads
- Place roads
- Follows AASHTO standards; class, design speed, default curve radius
- Best fit existing ground vertically
- Template (typical cross-section) based approach
- Super elevation determined automatically (Method 5)
- Named Roads
- Editing of horizontal alignment
- Insert PI, delete PI, move PI
- Edit curve radius graphically or precisely using heads-up text editing
- Editing of vertical alignment
- Insert PVI, Delete PVI, Move PVI
- Edit vertical curve length and slope graphically or precisely using heads-up text editing
- Template drop editing
- Easy editing of template drops, editing transition stationing
- Roundabouts design
- Tunnels design
Bridge Deck Templates
- Create New Template
- Easy component-based creation
- Specialized road template with different components adapted to the bridges
- Component material determines quantities and cost
- Mange template
- Duplicate, Delete, Copy/Paste, Rename
- Modify template
- Save change as a copy
- Modify the design
Roadway Template
- Create new template
- Easy component based creation
Lane Marking
- Lane marking automatically created
- Edit lane marking
- Change the lane marking for the full road
- Change the lane marking for portion of the road independently of the road template itself
Pavement Marking
- Ability to place punctual pavement marking, like turn arrows, etc.
- Ability to place linear pavement marking such as crosswalk
Place City Furniture
- Place and edit guardrails, streetlights, and other city furniture
- Choose what symbol to use
- Set offset from alignment
- Set angle from alignment
Assemble Context Data
- Import the following file types:
- Terrain Models (.DTM, .TIN)
- Raster DEM (.IMG, .DEM)
- Images (Ingr. TIFF / GEOTIFF (*.tif; *.tiff), Internet TIFF and TIFF64 (*.Itiff; *.itiff64), JPEG (*.Jpg; *.jpeg; *.jpe; *.jfif), JPEG 2000 (*.jp2; *.j2k; *.jpm), MrSID (*.sid), ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (*.ecw)
- GIS (SHP, Esri File Geodatabase, OpenStreetMap), can be mapped to ConceptStation objects and attributes
- Filter based on project extent, view, all, fence
- DGN as read-only
- Reference Reality Meshes (.3MX) from Bentley ContextCapture
- Reality Data Services
- 3D data (Terrain, Imagery, Roads, Hydro, Buildings)
Aerial Imageries
- Bing Map as images provider
Visualization
- LumenRT Designer
Interoperability with Detailed Civil Design
- Export to OpenRoads
- Export ALG, IRD, ITL, RWK
- Supports geometry, template, template drop transition, superelevation
Estimate Cost and Quantities
- Project cost overview
- High level overall design cost
- Includes allowance by default
- Detailed quantities/cost, listing cost items, and associated quantities
Processor
Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon-based processor 2.0 GHz or greater.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 10 x64, Windows 8, Windows 8 x 64
Memory
16 GB minimum (more memory typically results in better performance)
Disk Space
9 GB minimum free disk space (which includes the 5.6 GB install footprint for a complete installation)
Input Devices
Mouse or digitizing tablet (Digitizing tablet requires vendor-supplied WINTAB driver or Bentley?s Digitizer Tablet Interface, the latter included with OpenRoads Designer installation.)
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A Perpetual License is bought outright and owned indefinitely. You pay once, then pay an annual SELECT maintenance fee to keep your software updated and supported. It’s a shared network license, so it isn’t tied to one user.
An Annual Subscription is a 12-month subscription license you renew each year. It’s assigned to a named user and can be re-assigned every 30 days. Lower upfront cost, but access ends if you don’t renew.
In short: a Perpetual License is buying the software, while an Annual Subscription is renting access for the year.
It comes down to how long and how often you plan to use the software:
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Every license includes access to all the latest software features and updates, along with round-the-clock technical support. As a CAD Journey client, you also have our team of Bentley experts as your first point of contact for any question. Annual Subscriptions go a step further and include free one-on-one training and mentoring hours to help your team get up to speed.
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From there, the main steps are registering each team member, assigning a license to each one, and having everyone install the software and sign in. We will walk you through all of it, or we can simply take care of the setup for you.
The CONNECTION Client is a small free app that sits on each user’s computer. Users sign in to it with their account, and that sign-in is what activates the software. It is also where users download updates and check which licenses they have. There are no activation keys or serial numbers to manage anymore, so signing in is all that is needed.
The administrator is the person who can manage users and assign licenses for your organization. You can also set up co-administrators so more than one person can help manage the account. This is useful if your IT team handles software, or if you want a backup for when the main administrator is away. We can help you set up the right people with the right access.
It depends on the license type:
– Annual Subscriptions are assigned to a named user, so you need one for each person who uses the software.
– Perpetual Licenses work as a shared pool, so they can be used across your team without being tied to one person.
If you are not sure how many licenses you need, we are happy to work it out with you.
Once users are registered your license administrator can begin assigning licenses.
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The user gets a confirmation email and can start using the software right away. If you get stuck at any point, just reach out and we will jump in.
New people first need to be registered as a user on your account before they can be given a license. An administrator can add them by entering their name and work email, and then assign a license to them. If you would prefer, send us the details and we will add and assign your new starters for you.
Yes, a practitioner license can be re-assigned as many times as needed on the first day it is assigned to a user.
After the initial 24-hour assignment period, the license will be locked for 30 days. At the end of the 30 day period the license will be available for re-assignment.
Any re-assignment will restart the 24-hour assignment clock, and will be followed by the 30 day assignment lock.
No. Software now activates through a simple sign-in. As long as a user is registered, has a license assigned, and signs in to the CONNECTION Client, the software will run. There are no keys to track or share.
SELECT is Bentley’s maintenance program for perpetual license holders. It gives you access to the latest software version, technical support, and license portability across devices. Without the SELECT program you can only utilize the version you purchased and lose access to updates. For most active users, SELECT is a requirement and letting it lapse can create complications as versions evolve.
Annual subscription users will lose access at the end of the term if they do not renew. The CAD Journey team will flag your upcoming renewals well in advance so that you’re never caught off guard.