Category: OpenRoads Designer
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How To Print And Not Lose Your Mind And Time
Introduction OpenRoads Designer is different in its print workflow compared to the prior software package. Using the old Microstation method will cause your machine to take an unprofitable amount of time to print your plan set. Have you ever printed a plan set once and never needed to reprint it because you forgot something? The…
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When Clipping Goes Too Far
A Sticky Pair of Scissors Corridor clipping is weird and you should avoid it when possible. Welp, I can end our long conversation there but I’ll try to extend that idea a little. Corridor clipping does what it says it does. It takes a secondary corridor and clips it into a primary one. The visuals…
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Revisiting the Scope
Fog Ahead, Captain I’ve been thinking over how the typical proposal describes deliverables at each phase when the software used is PowerGeopak. The first phase will usually state that the horizontal and vertical alignments will be designed along with a geometric layout, preliminary drainage design (the meaning is usually vague), driveway profiles, typical sections, and…
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A Long Walk for a Short Driveway
A Workflow Concern I’ve only worked on one dense urban project in OpenRoads so far. I did, however, make an observation about the current way my DOT is requiring driveways to be designed. If Geopak’s driveway design was wishful guessing then OpenRoads’ driveway design is forensic science. I’ll attempt to explain that weird metaphor. Geopak…
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3D Linear Method for Modeling
The Man from Down Under I came across Alex Badaoui’s post a few months ago as I was working remotely in my favorite coffee shop. It has a small pond beside it where I often pace around while thinking through a problem. For several weeks I had been troubled about the conventional method of corridor…
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Understanding OpenRoads Designer
Why You Should Want To Learn It Allow me to start with some thoughts. Suppose you come across an artist who makes sculptures for a living. Let’s call him a sculptor. Now, say you saw him scratching his head staring at his hammer and chisel. If you could read his mind, you would find him…