© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated LARS Engine for Virtis Update VOBUG 2010 Nashville, TN Ronald A. Love, PE

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2 | Topics Introductions What’s new with LARS Bridge (formerly BridgeModeler/LARS) Brief history of Virtis enabled products LARS Bridge engine for Virtis overview (LARS- Virtis Engine) LARS-Virtis Engine demo LARS-Virtis Engine status Summary

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 3 | What’s new? BridgeKey and BridgeModeler/LARS name change… Old NameNew Name BridgeModeler/LARSLARS Bridge BridgeKey Data ConnectorLARS Connector BridgeKey Data ManagerLARS Manager BridgeKey RouteRunnerLARS RouteRunner BridgeKey Complex TrussLARS Complex Truss BridgeKey DataCheckerLARS Checker LARS-Virtis Engine (TBD)

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 4 | Brief History of Virtis Development LARS Connector –Began in 2002 –Extracts bridge models from Virtis including SDL –Provides ability to process bridges external to Virtis LARS Bridge LARS RouteRunner SUPERLOAD LARS Manager –Verify time stamp –Keep extracted data synchronized with Virtis

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 5 | LARS – Virtis Interfaces AASHTOWare Virtis BRIDGEWare AASHTO & BRASS engines LARS Bridge Models LARS Connector LARS Manager and RouteRunner LARS Bridge

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 6 | LARS-Virtis Engine Allows the LARS general purpose engine to be used inside Virtis. Provides rating results directly to the Virtis GUI Provides all standard LARS reports via Virtis GUI Provides value as another engine that works with Virtis (result comparison) Provides result consistency for SUPERLOAD users.

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 7 | LARS Workflow with Virtis AASHTOWare Virtis BRIDGEWare LARS-Virtis Engine AASHTO & BRASS engines LARS Customization Settings LARS Connector LARS Bridge

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 8 | LARS Workflow – LARS-Virtis Engine AASHTOWare Virtis BRIDGEWare LARS-Anal AASHTO & BRASS engines Bkproc.dll LARS-Virtis engine registered with Virtis via SQL script LARS-Ctl LARS Customization Settings These are standard install components These are new install components LARS-Virtis Engine LARSAnalysis.ocx LARSNew.ocx LARS Connector LARS Bridge

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 9 | LARS-Virtis Engine Install Virtis DB registration SQL –install and run against Virtis DB. Need to decide how to do this… LARS Analysis OCX LARS Customization OCX LARS Bridge/Connector wrapper process (bkproc.dll) Register both OCX’s on the user’s machine

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 10 | Demonstration

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 11 | LARS-Virtis Engine Summary Complete basic export module implementation Complete engine settings implementation Complete LRFR export engine implementation Complete additional reporting needs (Virtis Analysis Results window) Finalize warning/error reporting Internal testing Prepare beta test release (Sept.-Oct.) Actual release scheduled for Q4-2010

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 12 | Thank You!

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 13 | Old slides follow – disregard…

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 14 | LARS – Virtis Interfaces AASHTOWare Virtis BRIDGEWare LARS Bridge LARS Manager and RouteRunner LARS Connector AASHTO & BRASS engines LARS Bridge Models

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 15 | LARS Bridge Workflow AASHTOWare Virtis BRIDGEWare LARS Bridge Connector LARS Bridge Engine AASHTO & BRASS engines LARS Customization Settings

© 2009 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 16 | LARS Bridge Workflow – Virtis engine AASHTOWare Virtis BRIDGEWare LARS Bridge LARS Connector LARS-Anal AASHTO & BRASS engines Bkproc.dll LARS-Virtis engine registered with Virtis via SQL script LARS-Ctl LARS Customization Settings These are standard install components These are new install components LARS Bridge Engine LARSAnalysis.ocx LARSNew.ocx