OpenRail Designer 2024 (24.00.00.205)

General Enhancements
- For workspace changes in the 2024 release, please see \Configuration\Organization-Civil\Workspace Updates - 2024.00.pdf and Workspace Updates - 2024.00.xlsx included with the delivered workspace.
- Added example workspace based on international foot units.
- Added icon on the ribbon menu to launch the Bentley Support web page.
- Added icon on the ribbon menu to launch the Ideas page for the Bentley Civil applications.
- Added ability to select a customized mapping file when exporting to IFC.
- Updated the Analyze Point tool with the ability to place results in the graphics or copy to clipboard.
- Added new functionality to view, analyze, and edit multiple (stacked) profiles in a single profile view. (Technology Preview)
Geometry Enhancements
- Added ability to view design profiles oriented left-to-right or right-to-left.
- Added ability to import geometry from LandXML files created in BricsCAD.
- Improved points to ensure 2D and 3D instances are always synchronized.
- Added new icons making it easier to know when civil geometry snaps are, and are not, persisted.
- Improved how complex geometry is shown in the Properties dialog in a more organized manner.
- Added Deed Boundary tool to easily create geometry for deeds and parcels.
- Improved the Complex Redefine tool to work more consistently and efficiently.
- Added new Geometry Alignment Replacer tool to replace the path of a Horizontal Alignment with the path of another elements.
- Improved the regression workflow to be simpler and more interactive.
Drawing Production and Annotation Enhancements
- Added text field to annotate curve lengths of arc-based arcs.
- Added text field to annotate curve lengths of chord-based arcs.
- Enhanced the text field to annotate curve hand (left or right) with custom text (-/+, left/right, LT/RT, etc.).
- Added text field to annotate the elevation difference between a surface and a point.
- Added text field to annotate the elevation difference between a surface and the elevation projected from a profile.
- Added option to include titles on both the left and right side of profile frame annotations.
- Updated the Place Label tool to be the same tool included in MicroStation.
- Add a Maximum Height option to crop tall cross sections to ensure they fit on a cross-section sheet.
- Added ability to hatch or area pattern components and meshes in a profile.
- Added ability to hatch or area pattern components and meshes in a cross section.
- Added ability to create profile sheets oriented left-to-right or right-to-left.
- Added ability to use drainage nodes, crossing points, and boreholes to calculate profile boundary shifts.
- Added ability to locate cross sections at custom locations like drainage nodes, boreholes, driveways, etc
Report Enhancements
- Added Deed Writer tool to create legal descriptions.
- Enhanced the Station Offset Report to be able to select a corridor hull as an offset element.
- Enhanced Horizontal Point report to list points in numerical order.
Drainage and Utilities Enhancements
- Added ability to report the station and offset of drainage nodes from the setout point to a baseline.
- Added ability for conduits to report the station and offset to a baseline.
- Added support for the ellipse conduit shape in multiple barrels.
- Added ability to delineate a catchment area when you place an inlet using a linear element as the elevation reference, instead of a terrain model.
- Added ability to create gutter sections between inlets that are placed using a linear element as the elevation reference, instead of a terrain model.
- Added ability to export drainage to the Danish VejVand format.
- Added the conduit size to the Civil properties, making it available in iTwin and IFC digital models.
- Added support for a selection set when creating catchment areas from shapes.
- Implemented the OpenFlows Assign Taps to Links command.
- Added the conduit rise to the Calculation Detailed Summary.
- Added the ability to define your own formula in a User Data Extension to calculate the Time of Concentration.
- Added the ability to type an area and calculate its percentage when a catchment uses a subarea collection, as well as typing a percentage and calculating its area.
- Added the ability to add infiltration to a conduit when using the GVF Rational solver.
- Added a new property to show the maximum shear stress in a channel.
- Added support for viewing profiles oriented left-to-right or right-to-left. The reverse profile run has been deprecated.
Terrain Enhancements
- Add ability to import a HEC-RAS SDF file to create terrain model(s) of the water surface extents.
- Added a tool to convert 2D contour graphics to 3D so they can be imported into a terrain surface
Geotechnical Enhancements
- Added new functionality to import geotechnical data from OpenGround into a borehole object.
- Added support for geotechnical Feature Definitions.
- Added ability to control the width of the borehole stratum in 3D, XS and profiles.
- Added ability to label boreholes with the Civil Labeler.
- Added ability to project boreholes onto a profile.
Overhead Line Enhancements
- Added external station support in core OLE tools.
- Added Overhead Conductor Rail (rigid catenary) toolset.
- Added script-based pantograph calculation standards.
Deprecations in 2024
- As planned, the Asset Manager tool is removed from the software beginning with the 2024 release. This functionality is replaced by the Attach Item tool, incorporating Item Types on Feature Definitions, and the Export to SHP tool.
- As planned, the Place Label tool was reset to match the functionality of the tool in MicroStation beginning with the 2024 release. This functionality is replaced by (1) the MicroStation Place Label tool which supports placing labels from cells and (2) the Civil Labeler which supports labels from Text Favorites. The MicroStation Place Label tool can be activated in pre 2024 software releases with the key in placelabel dialog.