OpenSite Designer

Integrated CAD Capabilities

• Integrate data with MicroStation, ProjectWise, OpenBuildings, OpenFlows, LumenRT, and other Bentley applications
• Support for managed workspaces
• Works across references files
• Include other engineering data (e.g. drainage) as referencing it to the DGN model
• Utilize an unlimited number of federated reference files
• Create and edit CAD elements
• Read and write to DGN and DWG files
• Supports design history
• Apply digital signatures using industry-standard encryption
• Secure digital rights definition for reviewing, printing, and editing
• Supports multiple raster formats
• Supports PostScript and HPGL2/RTL printing
• Use AccuDraw and AccuSnap navigation tools
• Track annotation

Reality Modeling

• Read/write standard data formats for:
  • 2D/3D CAD graphics
  • ASCII/text data
  • LandXML
  • LiDAR data: ASCII and LAS
  • USGS digital elevation models
  • Photogrammetric data
  • Raster files
  • Contour maps
• Import and analyze point-cloud data
• Merge surfaces automatically
• Update surface data dynamically

Terrain Modeling

• Create intelligent, data-rich and lightweight terrain models
• No need for secondary terrain analysis to represent the terrain display. Includes context sensitive re-symbolization for triangles, contours, linear features, slope vectors, color code for slopes, elevation banding, and aspect
• Create terrain models from a variety of import sources
  • Reality models
  • 3D graphical data automatically using graphical filters
  • ASCII/text data
  • Legacy data formats of InRoads, GEOPAK, and MX
  • Point clouds
  • LandXML
  • LiDAR data: ASCII and LAS
  • USGS digital elevation model data
  • Aerial data
  • Raster files
• Ensure live, federated, and intelligent terrain models when stored as a DGN element
• Maintain terrain models through the preservation of relationships to source data
• Ensure correct entry with undo/redo capabilities
• Standardize displays via element templates
• Use across multiple disciplines via reference files in an open modeling environment
• Re-symbolization of display across multiple disciplines using an open modeling environment
• Control maximum length of triangles
• Control boundary conditions
• Create complex and clipped terrain models
• Interrogate the intelligent data-rich 3D models
• Support for different feature types including but not limited to boundaries, holes, voids, breaklines, inferred breaklines, and random points
• Model intelligent 3D real-world civil features (ditches, curbs, trees, and culverts)
• Context-sensitive intelligent editing of features
• Dynamic editing for
  • Extend, trim, and intersect features
  • Insert, move, and delete vertices
  • Delete, partially delete, break, or join features
• Manage large LiDAR datasets
• Exclude non-DTM features from triangulation
• Control density of points on linear features for optimal surface presentation
• Display cut and fill delineation
• View and edit feature properties
• Contour smoothing
• Major, minor, and depression contours
• Automatic and manual contour labeling

Modeling

• Model multiple design scenarios
• Edit designs dynamically
• Automatic model updates driven by design intent
• Design time visualization with automatic material assignments
• Undo/redo capabilities
• Interactively interrogate federated 3D models with dynamic cross sections
• Manage 2D/3D models and display representation
• Use enhanced clipping and point controls
• Integrate and utilize CAD graphical elements in the model
• Create model reports dynamically
• Generate plan ready cross sections
• Adheres to regional design standards

Dynamic Geometric Design

• Interactive geometry capabilities
• Enhanced integration with AccuDraw and AccuSnap through CivilAccudraw
• Multiple vertical geometries supported per alignment
• Design time standards input and feedback with errors and warnings in Civil Message Center
• Store rules and relationships between geometric elements
• Create horizontal/vertical by PI method or by elements
• Offset capabilities to easily create complex yard layouts
• Create circular and parabolic vertical curves
• Create arc and chord horizontal curves
• Support tangential and non-tangential curves
• Edit elements associatively and dynamically
• Define curves by radius, degree of curvature, and pass-through points
• Edit, delete, and join elements
• Support delta angles greater than 180°
• Annotate alignments and points with object attribution, geometric properties, stationing, dynamically and automatically
• Additional annotation capabilities for one-off object labeling
• Review and report geometry in a variety of customizable formats
• Perform design checks dynamically or in batch processes
• Display 3D geometry

Template Libraries

• Support for surface and linear templates
• Include components, end conditions, and features
• Create components for real-world objects such as lanes, curbs, walls, ditches, and barriers
• Define parametric components graphically
• Apply constraints to components
• Place component points as free, partially constrained, or fully constrained
• Set constraints as horizontal, vertical, sloped, projected, vectors, offsets, and elevations
• Constrain end conditions partially or fully
• Set end conditions to trace existing surfaces such as rock
• Drag-and-drop assembly of templates from components and end conditions
• Perform graphical tests to verify design

Site Layout Modeling

• Create custom parametric parking lots
• Modify parking limits by simple line and point manipulation
• Modify parking limits to remove parking spaces
• User controlled design standards
• Revise parking orientation with customized direction path
• Control size requirements for parking spaces, islands, bays, and aisles
• Parametric revision of island locations and quantities
• Integrate building(s) from OpenBuildings and other building design software
• Parametric interaction between parking and building for optimal site configuration