What's New?

MicroStation/Platform Enhancements

General Enhancements

• For workspace changes in the 2025 release, please see \Configuration\Organization-Civil\Workspace Updates - 2025.00.pdf and Workspace Updates - 2025.00.xlsx included with the delivered workspace.
• Updated the Multiple Profile Tracking and Analysis tool to read formatting from the Design File Settings of the active dgn file.
• Updated the IFC Export tool from technology preview to general availability.
• Added dgn file health auditing to track which versions DGN files are used with, when they are upgraded and downgrades, and monitor for known issues that need to be repaired.
• Improved the tool tips displayed when hovering over tools in the ribbon menu.

Geometry Enhancements

• Simplified geometry naming so that the given name is maintained when intervals are created. In previous releases, a new interval caused the name to change which made targeting or ruling to geometry more difficult.
• Continued improving the geometry engine to more easily make edits that require previous rules and design intent to be superseded. These enhancements are most evident in the easier workflows of the Complex Redefine tools.
• Enhanced the Complex Redefine tool to work with both horizontal and vertical geometry. Added new options to for when and how redefined geometry is retained.
• Enhanced the Geometry Replacer tool to work with both horizontal and vertical geometry.
• Added the ability to put points into Named Groups for easier reporting, annotation, and management.
• Enhanced the Equal Spaced Points tool so that the resulting points can now have unique names, feature definitions, and station/offset rules. When files containing Equal Spaced Points are upgraded to the 2025 release, the Equal Spaced Points are automatically converted to the new definition and become individual points, with their own rules.
• When geometry points are created the constraints used (e.g. Civil AccuDraw) are now shown in the properties, making them more visible, and easier to edit. These constraints can also be removed.
• Added support for 2D and 3D Parametric Cells in the Geometry > Place Point and Equal Spaced Points tools.

Drawing Production and Annotation Enhancements

• Added a new AI empowered Label Organizer tool that analyzes and repositions annotations that are overlapping or conflicting with other data. The annotations are repositioned using an AI model trained with how pleasing plan sheets look. (Technology Preview)
• Added five new text frames (Underline, Double Bracket, Single Bracket, Parenthesis, Double Parenthesis) for use with both Civil Labels and bulk annotations. Over 20 different text frames are currently supported.
• Added the ability for bulk annotations to use text frames (20+) and leaders. This allows for more flexibility when adjusting the location of bulk annotations manually or with the new Label Organizer.
• Expanded white space management to support geometry points, survey points, and drainage nodes annotation in plan and profile views.
• Added the ability to annotate point geometry during placement when the Auto Annotate option on the Feature Definition toolbar is enabled.

Reporting Enhancements

• Station-Offset/Base is restructured to organize offset elements and event points for easy access. Geometry points can also be included in the reports.
• Clearance Report functionality added to Station-Offset/Base report (OpenRail only). New functionality allows reporting of offset values parallel to track axis for lines and points.
• Added the ability to create reports directly from the Multiple Profile Tracking and Analysis tool.

Survey Enhancements

• Added the ability to import GEOPAK parcels, survey points, and survey chains as standard geometry objects like importing alignments. Survey chains are not ruled to the points.
• Added the ability to import 12daz survey data. Delivered only in the ANZ workspace.

Terrain Enhancements

• Added support for local depressions to the Analyze Catchment tool.
• Added the ability to choose a vertical datum/coordinate system when importing terrain data from a file.

Drainage and Utilities Enhancements

• The road cross slope can now exceed the gutter cross slope, making it possible to analyze spreads in superelevated sections of roadway, where the cross slope of the lane is greater than the cross slope of the shoulder.
• Gutters can now have multiple roadway segments, with varying widths and slopes.
• Culverts now support roadway overtopping in the GVF Rational solver.
• When a catchment is delineated for a sag inlet, two areas are now created and assigned to the appropriate gutter, which means that the approach flows from each side of the inlet are accurately modelled.
• Vertices on polygons (e.g. catchment areas) can now be added, moved, and deleted.
• The storage in a catch basin can now be considered when running an analysis using the unsteady-state solvers.
• Support has been added for the HEC-22 4^th edition procedure for curb inlets on grade.
• Drainage nodes can now be drawn in profile using a cell. In addition, the walls and base of chambers can now be shown, and the walls can have a gap where conduits connect.
• When you connect a pipe to a connection point on a node, you can now apply the invert at the edge of the node instead of the center, improving the accuracy of the 3D and profile models.
• The functionality for cross sections and channels has been improved when a roadway is referenced, so the drainage elements will now update correctly when an end condition for a ditch is modified.

Regression Enhancements

• Added a new Validate Regression Data tool to help verify completeness (enough data has been collected in the field) and data correctness (blunder checking). (OpenRail only)
• Added a new Vertical Regression Point Table. (OpenRail only)
• Enhanced the curvature diagram to mark omitted points as ignore.

Cant and Speed Table Enhancements

• Added the ability to import Cant from an external text file, containing: Station, Speed and Cant. (OpenRail only)
• Existing cant values are added to cant table. Giving engineers ability to use values directly for design or as a reference for new cant application. (OpenRail only)
• Enhanced Cant table to properly identify virtual points as TV: Tangent to Virtual, VC: Virtual to Curve, CV: Curve to Virtual, and VT: Virtual to Tangent (OpenRail only)
• Active cant value can be manually set among User, Projected, Calculated or Existing cant values. Each value is also displayed in the table allowing greater control in cant design. (OpenRail only)
• Enhanced Cant table with the ability to select and edit multiple rows at the same time. (OpenRail only)
• Added the ability to define the Feature Definition of Cant when importing from an XML file. (OpenRail only)
• Cant variables are extended and moved to configuration files. Enabling user defined values for missing data during the import process. (OpenRail only)

Low Voltage Assets Enhancements

• Added editable Trench properties for Start/End Reference Centerline and Elevation Reference
• Added support for populating Trenches by key-in arguments

Deprecated Features

• Bing map backgrounds have been depreciated and replaced with Google maps in the 2025 release.
• Advanced notice, the Corridor to IFC tool is scheduled to be deprecated in the 2027 release. The Export to IFC tool is more advanced and should be used for all IFC exports.
• Advanced notice, the Export to SHP tool on the OpenRoads menu is scheduled to be deprecated in the 2027 release. The Shapefile export on the backstage (Export > Geospatial File Types > Shapefile) is more advanced and should be used for all Shapefile exports.