2018 Release 2 - Release Notes
- This version uses Haestad version 10.01.01.04
- "Broken-back" culverts are now supported
- The Haestad Engineering Standards functionality is now available in OpenRoads Designer
- The New Storm Event Scenarios wizard now lets you choose to use the Bentley Transition Equation when you are creating scenarios that use the Explicit (SWMM) solver
- The Place Node tool has been split in two - Place Node, and Insert Node - to make the functionality more intuitive. The Place Node tool creates a node at its minimum depth. The Insert Node tool offers the choice of whether to split the conduit in two or not, as before.
- A new tool has been added for creating profile runs for hydraulic elements. You select a start node, and it finds the path to the outfall, or you select a stop node. This makes it easier to create longer profile runs, because you don't have to select every link individually.
- You can now project a profile run into the profile of another linear element, such as a road centreline for example, and you can project several profile runs into the same linear element. This makes it possible to create 'composite' profiles, so that you can see the relative positions of different utility types.
- The existing tools to create all profile runs to the outfall of hydraulic systems, and to create a profile run by selecting consecutive links, have been added to a new "Profile Runs" ribbon group on the Layout tab, which also includes the two new profile tools described above.
- The Profile Model now lets you show the wall thickness of the conduits. This is controlled by a setting in Settings > Preferences > View Options - Civil. It should be used in conjunction with the "Slice" option for drawing nodes, so that the base of the node is visible below the conduits.
3D Design Models
Subsurface utilities now tests whether the active model is 2D or 3D when you create a utility project in a DGN, and prevents the project being created if the active model is 3D. This behavior can be disabled using a new SUDA_ALLOW_3D_MODEL configuration variable.
Drawing Production
The OpenRoads Designer Drawing Production tools now support Subsurface Utilities elements in plan, profile, and cross section drawings. The Place Label, Element Annotation, and Model Annotation tools are supported for plan and profile annotation, and the Place Label tool is supported for cross section annotation. Annotation in this version is positioned relative to the element being annotated. Tabular annotation of hydraulic data, which is sometimes used in profile drawings, will be added in a future version.
In support of the Drawing Production tools, a node is now represented in profile as a point element, where previously it was represented as a linear element. This change means that the property for the Profile Feature Symbology has been removed from the feature definition of a node, and the symbology for the profile point is now set in the Point Feature Symbology.
- The Place Drainage Area tool not working correctly if a comma was used as a decimal separator.
- An 'Object Not Set' error that occurred if data that included gutters was imported through ModelBuilder, or Haestad data was imported.
- Conduits being connected to the wrong nodes if LandXML data was imported.
- The 3D model not being updated if manipulators or MicroStation properties were used to change values.
- A conduit that used an irregular closed section was not being drawn using the correct shape in the 3D model.
- Existing elements not being updated by importing updated data through ModelBuilder.
- The Baseline Station and Offset properties were showing metric values in imperial data.
- The vertical offset value used when extracting a utility from graphics was being shown in metric units in imperial data.
- Cancelling the Place Node tool at the last prompt in the sequence left a point element in the DGN.