Learning Path Courses:

• Getting Started in OpenRoads Designer

  Getting Started in OpenRoads Designer: Course Introduction

  This course will teach you the basics to start in OpenRoads Designer.  This course covers how to start a work session and create your first design file.  We review the user interface and introduce you to standard and frequently used tools.  We address model types, views, and user settings necessary for design file setup.  You will learn about civil features, feature definitions, and the significance of design file libraries.

  If you are new to OpenRoads Designer, you’ll want to complete this course before starting into other OpenRoads training.

  
  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you the basics of the following topics:

  • Work Page, WorkSpaces, and WorkSets
  • OpenRoads User Interface

  • Common and frequently used tools

  • Model types and their purposes

  • Navigating and viewing design models

  • Civil Features and Feature Definitions

  • Setting Up Your Work Environment

  • Seed files and DGN libraries

  • Create a new design file

  
  

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  • Microstation fundamentals

  
  

  Video Duration: 61 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Survey Fundamentals

  Survey Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn the survey data fundamentals in OpenRoads Designer. This course will cover basic tools and processes to get you started in processing and preparing your survey design files. This is a fundamentals course for new users whose purpose is to provide a foundation you can build upon.

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you:

  • Survey Basics
  • Import Survey Data from an ASCII point file
  • Edit survey point and linear features
  • Add point and linear features into a Field Book
  • Create a Terrain model from Field Books
  • Annotate and Report Survey Data
  • Export Survey Data

  

  ​Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  • MicroStation 2D Fundamentals

  
  

  Video Duration: 32 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Terrain Fundamentals

  Terrain Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of creating Terrain Models in OpenRoads Designer. Many methods can be employed to create Terrain Models, and this course will cover some of the most commonly used ones.

  
  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you how to:

  • Create a Terrain Model from Points
  • Add break lines to a Terrain Model
  • Create a Terrain Model from Contour Lines
  • Create a Terrain Model from a File
  • Create a Terrain Model from a Point Cloud
  • Create a Terrain Model using OpenRoads Concept Station
  • Create a Terrain from a Field Book

  
  

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  • Getting Started in OpenRoads Designer

  

  Video Duration: 20 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.
    

• Alignment and Profile Fundamentals

  Alignment and Profile Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  This course will teach you the fundamental tools to create, edit, and annotate civil geometry in OpenRoads Designer. Horizontal and Vertical geometry are required to make a 3D model, or corridor, for a road design. The horizontal geometry is used to lay out the alignment and is the parent feature for the vertical geometry

  or design profile. In this course, we’ll address a few standard tools and approaches to get you started with the layout and grading of your alignments and profiles.

  
  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you how to:

  • Create a geometry design file
  • Create and edit design alignments
  • Annotate alignments
  • Getting started with profiles
  • Create and edit design profiles

  
  

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  • Microstation fundamentals

  
  

  Video Duration: 37 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Corridor Fundamentals

  Corridor Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn the basics of corridor modeling, including the common workflow, tools, and concepts to get started in OpenRoads Designer. Corridor models bring together the alignment, profile, and templates to create a detailed 3D model used for finish grade construction and quantity reporting. You can use many tools and techniques to model your corridors, and this course will establish the foundation you can build on to model even the most complex corridors.

  
  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you how to:

  • Create a corridor model
  • Add template drops to a corridor
  • View corridor models
  • Edit corridor templates
  • Use point controls to override templates
  • Use parametric constraints to override templates
  • Use end condition exceptions to change daylight slopes
  • Calculate and assign superelevation to a corridor
  • Calculate and report earthwork and material quantities
  • Create and export corridor surfaces

  
  

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  • Getting Started in OpenRoads Designer

  • Alignment and Profile Fundamentals

  
  

  Approximate Duration: 58 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Pad Grading Fundamentals

  Pad Grading Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn how to use rule-based design to grade a small site, including a building pad, parking pad, and access road. Using rule-based design allows you to create relationships with grading features to automate updates as changes occur. This includes setting pad elevations relative to a surface, creating a design profile at a given slope from another civil feature, and anchoring a design profile to an intersection of civil features. As the grading evolves, you can analyze earthwork volumes and make interactive refinements to achieve a cost-effective grading solution. This course will follow a typical design workflow that you can apply to your design products, regardless of whether you leverage the rule-based approach. The content in this course is also applicable to OpenSite and OpenRail Designer.

  
  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you how to:

  • Grade building and parking pads using rule-based design
  • Create a Proposed Terrain from Elements
  • Grade an Access Road using rule-based design
  • Add Exterior Grading via Linear Templates
  • Adjust and Refine Rule-Based Grading
  • Calculate earthwork volumes
  • Validate Terrain models
  • Apply Surface Templates
  • Create Complex Terrain

  ​Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should complete or have the knowledge equivalency in the following courses:

  • Getting Started in OpenRoads Designer

  • Terrain Fundamentals

  
  

  Video Duration: 43 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Pond Grading Fundamentals

  Pond Grading Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  This course teaches you how to use Open Designer products to grade a detention pond. This course will follow a typical grading workflow for a detention pond and demonstrate commonly used grading tools to prepare you for open-space grading on your projects.  Rule-based design methodology will grade the entire detention pond based on the pond’s water elevation. You will learn how to create a custom linear template for the pond grading and how to create a terrain from the grading features. After the pond is graded, earthwork volumes will be analyzed, and the pond storage capacity will be determined.  After this course, a complex terrain will merge the pond design into the existing ground.

  
  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you how to:

  • Establish the design profile for the water surface elevation
  • Create a linear template for basin and berm grading
  • Apply a linear template to the pond elevation feature
  • Create a terrain model from pond grading features
  • Analyze pond volumes
  • Create composite pond terrain model

  
  

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should complete or have the knowledge equivalency in the following courses:

  • Getting Started in OpenRoads Designer

  • Terrain Fundamentals

  
  

  Approximate Duration: 31 Minutes

  
  

  Tips:

  • Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  • Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  • Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Subsurface Utility Fundamentals

  Subsurface Utility Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn the basic skills to layout, analyze, and design a drainage network using subsurface utilities in OpenRoads Designer. The Subsurface Utilities in OpenRoads Designer can be used to model various subsurface utilities and includes tools for analysis and design of storm and sanitary sewer systems. This fundamentals course will cover the essential tools for getting started in subsurface utilities, including the standard layout tools that you can use for any type of underground utility. This course will focus on a storm sewer layout and design; however, much of the workflow and tools apply to other utility types.

  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you how to:

  Place and Edit Nodes
  Place and Edit Conduits
  Add Catchments to Nodes
  Create Profile Runs
  Analyze and Design a Storm System
  Label Nodes and Conduits
  Create Tables and Reports

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  OpenRoads Designer Fundamentals

  Video Duration: 86 Minutes

  Tips:

  Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Section Drawing and Sheet Fundamentals

  Section Drawing and Sheet Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of creating cross-section drawings in OpenRoads Designer.  Creating cross-section drawings and sheets is easy and intuitive, assuming your system’s OpenRoads configuration includes all the required standards and settings. This course provides an overview of the configuration that is required to make this process easy and covers the workflow and tools that you can use to create cross-sections for your project design files. This is a fundamentals course designed to give you a foundation that you can build upon.

  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you:

  Create Section Drawings and Sheets Overview
  Create Cross Sections Design File
  Create Section Drawings and Sheets
  View Cross Section Drawings and Sheets
  Label Section Drawing Models
  Update Section Annotations

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  OpenRoads Designer Fundamentals

  Alignments and Profiles Fundamentals

  Corridor Fundamentals

  Terrain Fundamentals

  

  Video Duration: 24 Minutes

  Tips:

  Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  Go Full Screen when watching videos.

• Plan and Profile Sheet Fundamentals

  Plan and Profile Sheet Fundamentals: Course Introduction

  In this course, you will learn how to create plan over plan and plan over profile sheets in OpenRoads Designer. You will learn the process, tools, and elements designed and assembled to produce plan and profile sheets. You will become familiar with Named Boundaries and learn the core setup and standards underlying the drawing production tools in OpenRoads. This is a fundamentals course and is intended to serve as a foundation for your understanding and learning on how to create plan and profile sheets.

  

  Course Objectives

  The material presented in this course will teach you:

  Create Plan Only Sheets
  Create Plan and Profile Sheets
  Label Plan and Profile Sheets
  Manage and Plot Plan and Profile Sheets.

  Course Prerequisites

  To participate in this training course, you should have a basic understanding of the following:

  Same instructions

  As above

  Video Duration: 30 Minutes

  Tips:

  Turn off your phone, and close your email, text, and social media apps.

  Plug headphones or earbuds to your computer.

  Go Full Screen when watching videos.