1. Roads and Maritime Services MX OpenRoads workspace
Ian Urban
CADD Analyst
Road Design Engineering
Roads and Maritime Services
New South Wales

2. Outline
Introduction
What you get
Folder structure
Details.

3. Introduction Starter pack More elements will be added
Has had input from industry
Will have to be reconfigured for OpenRoads Designer.
More elements added as OpenRoads experience grows in Roads and Maritime Services and Industry
Has had input from Beca and Arcadis
Will have to be reconfigured to run with OpenRoads Designer.

4. What you get Civil cells
Design standards for horizontal and vertical alignments
Superelevation standards
Widening standards
Feature definitions
Element Templates
Project settings for corridor design stages
Corridor Templates
Terrain display
Terrain filters
Feature Definitions:
These are used to hold the properties and settings for most of the features used in OpenRoads.
Templates:
The basic building blocks to get you going
Will eventually build up a library of Project based templates
Roads and Maritime standard pavement templates
Roads and Maritime Kerbs and Gutters.
Terrain Display:
Settings for Calculated features, such as Contours.

5. What you get Working cross section layout configuration
Roads and Maritime Services SUDA feature definitions
Australian pit and pipe data
Custom reports.

6. Folder structure
Most of the resource files - under “RMS-Civil Project”
All of the configuration - contained in “RMS-Civil pcf”
Most of the resource files sit under RMS-Civil-2017 Project area in the MicroStation Workspace in an OpenRoads folder.
All of the configuration for how OpenRoads accesses these files is contained in “RMS-Civil-2017.pcf”.

7. The details – civil cells
Example Bentley
Roads and Maritime Services ones are:
AUL series
BAL series
BAR series
CHL series
CHR series.
The Civil cells provided are a mixture of Roads and Maritime and selected Bentley cells (to be used as examples)

8. The details – design standards
Based on Roads and Maritime standards
Horizontal and vertical.

9. The details – superelevation
Superelevation supplied is Austroads 8th Edition 2003.

10. The details – widening
Based on AustRoads ARDG which is the same as in RMS Supplement to Austroads
Vehicles catered for:
12.5m Single Unit truck
19m Semi Trailer
25m B Double
36.2m A Double
1, 2, 3 and 4 lanes
ARDG03-16 Spreadsheet provided
If widening applied where turning path required a 3m widening is applied.
Table is same as in RMS Maritime Supplement to Austroads Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Design - Version Aug 2015

11. The details – feature definitions
RMS-3D-Linear
For creating features that have a 3D line style, such as wire rope and W- Beam.
Components from PC and Beca

12. The details – feature definitions
RMS-Components.
Components are the solid objects that are part of your templates, i.e. the bit that gets extruded
Will look at in more detail when discussing templates.

13. The details – feature definitions
RMS-MXRoad:
Created from RMS-MXRoad style set
Maps properties of MX strings to and from OpenRoads
Has been categorised to enable easier navigation.

14. The details – feature definitions
RMS-Terrain Display
Definitions for the display of terrains
Controls display of:
Break lines
Boundaries
Imported contours
Islands
Holes
Voids
Spots
Triangles
Display configuration is done in element templates.

15. The details – project settings
Control how corridors and linear templates are displayed
Used to decrease the template drop interval
Also used by surveyors for:
Survey settings for a project
For example, linking codes and adjustment defaults.
Used to decrease the template drop interval:
Makes processing a corridor faster
Controlled by the Template Drop Multiplier function.
Also used by surveyors for:
Survey settings for a project
eg Linking Codes and Adjustment Defaults.

16. The details – terrain filters
Used for grouping data in an OpenRoads design
Must be 3D
Can be filtered by feature or symbology
Uses are for grouping:
Surface features to send to MX
Sub-grade features
Pavement features
Barrier strings
Features can be selected by defining a number of attributes, such as:
Level
Element type
Civil features etc.

17. The details – template library
Introduction and configuration:
Every job is different
Point feature – is a string in cross section
Point and component naming
Linking point names to MX string names
Moving towards a unified naming convention suitable for all stages of a BIM project.
This is where you will spend most of your time. Every job is different and it’s the design and application of templates that create a road.
A lot of thought has gone into Point and Component naming:
Get a naming convention that minimises duplication
Top surface point names will change depending on what feature they represent in the final template
Linking Point names to MX string names:
Allows features to go back to MX and display correctly in plan, etc.
In OpenRoads Designer we will be moving towards a unified naming convention that would be suitable for all stages of a BIM project.

18. The details – template library
What is in the library:
Barriers
Channels
Interfaces
Kerb and gutter
Pavement types
Verges and batters
Example templates.
Barriers – Type F with Left, Right and Middle placement.
Channels – Lined Table Drain.
Interfaces – A few basic interfaces, plus some from the Pacific Hwy.
Kerb and Gutter – All the standard ones.
Pavement Types:
This is where most of the Roads and Maritime development has been done
They are the building blocks of a template. More detail on next slide…
Verges and Batters – A few combinations of these plus some topsoil examples.
Template Examples – to give you ideas on how templates are created.

19. The details – template library
Pavement types:
Pavement components
Type F (Flexible) F1 to F10
Type B (Bridge) B1 to B3
Type R (Rigid) R1 to R6
Base pavement components folder
Subgrade strings added to RMS-MXRoad style set.
Pavement Components have been created for all of the pavement's in the Roads and Maritime Standard Pavement drawings:
Type F (Flexible) – F1 to F10
Type B (Bridge) – B1 to B3
Type R (Rigid) – R1 to R6
The “Base Pavement Components” folder contains all of the individual pavement layers.
The Roads and Mariotime MXRoad Style Set has been modified to include subgrade strings which are created when using pavement templates.

20. The details – cross sections
Cross section creation and drawing is controlled by using a series of preferences
To create the sections use the “RMS-Sheet-Stacked-5-per-Row”.
Cross Section creation and drawing is controlled by using a series of preferences.
preferences are available in the “Create Cross Sections” tool and the “Annotate Cross Sections” tool.
RMS has developed a set of preferences to draw “working” cross sections at a scale of 1:500
To create the sections use the “RMS-Sheet-Stacked-5-per-Row”:
This cuts the sections and will try to fit up to five per row
It also places the Roads and Maritime Border around the sections.

21. The details – cross section
Use “Annotate Cross Sections” Tool
Annotation on the cross sections at a scale of 1:500
Apply the preferences one at a time
Ensure cross section model is correct
Ensure that the correct surface is used.
Use the “Annotate Cross Sections” Tool.
Has Roads and Maritime preferences to create the annotation on the cross sections at a scale of 1:500.
You apply the preferences one at a time. For the Design annotation use the Design preferences. For existing annotation use the Existing preferences. For Slope and Crossfalls use the Slope+Xfalls.
Ensure that your Cross Section Model (MicroStation Model, not MX) is correct so that all your annotations get added to the drawing.
Ensure that you are using the correct surface for either your design or existing features.

22. The details – data for SUDA
Inlet Pits, headwalls and energy dissipaters have been modelled in 3D
Contained in “RMS Subsurface Utilities Cells.cel”
Pits have three parts.
All Roads and Maritime Inlet Pits, Headwalls and Energy Dissipaters have been modelled in 3D for use in SUDA.
Contained in “RMS Subsurface Utilities Cells.cel”.
Pits are divided into three parts:
Top. 3D model of the kerb shape and grate
Bottom. 3D extendable part of the pit that will take pipe connections
Plan. Representation of the pit in a 2D plan view.

23. The details – data for SUDA
Headwalls - created for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cells
Energy dissipaters - created for type 2 and 3, up to a 1050mm pipe.

24. The details – data for SUDA
Hydraulic inlet data - supplied for all pit types
Australian pipe data - “Concrete Pipe Classes.xml”
AR&R 1987 storm data - “Australian Rainfall and Runoff 1987.xml”.
Hydraulic inlet data based on Roads and Maritime standards is supplied for all pit types:
Hydraulic data contained in “RMS Subsurface Utilities Feature Definitions.dgnlib”.
Australian Pipe data is supplied “Concrete Pipe Classes.xml”.
AR&R 1987 Storm data “Australian Rainfall and Runoff 1987.xml”.

25. The details – reports OpenRoads reports are available for:
Geometric
Corridors
Components
Milling
Superelevation
Terrains.
Custom reports for:
Horizontal alignment table
HALGN, VALGN and VERAT reports for MX input
GENIO files from OpenRoads to MX.
OpenRoads comes with dozens of reports. These are available for all of the areas of OpenRoads:
Geometric
Corridors
Components
Milling
Super Elevation
Terrains.
Custom Reports have been developed for Roads and Maritime:
Horizontal Alignment table
HALGN, VALGN and VERAT reports for MX input
GENIO files from OpenRoads to MX.

26. Questions?

27. MX Final Version??
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