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Steve Willoughby Bentley Civil

Workflow and Dialog Changes Revised Tools/Applications NEW Applications Retired Applications Conversion Issues Workmodes GEOPAK 8.1 Release Candidate. Workflow and Dialog Changes . Design File Format Cells References Element Placement Levels. Design File Format. Double Precision Floating PointWorking Units

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Steve Willoughby Bentley Civil

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    2. Workflow and Dialog Changes Revised Tools/Applications NEW Applications Retired Applications Conversion Issues Workmodes GEOPAK 8.1 Release Candidate

    3. Workflow and Dialog Changes

    5. Design File Format

    6. Double Precision Floating Point All design coordinates stored as DPFP instead of 32 bit integers as in V7 (48 bit with Enhanced Precision).

    7. User Impact Gives the ability to draw accurate graphics using Microstation.

    8. GEOPAK Impact This allows us to intermix Microstation tools and GEOPAK geometry tools without loss of precision.

    9. Working Units There is still a concept of Master Units/Sub Units but with a great deal of resolution between positional units. V8 references a standard table of unit ratios – for example, 1 foot: 12 inches. This table enables you to choose master units and sub units by name.

    10. Working Units

    11. Working Units

    13. User Impact You can change Working Units without affecting the size of existing geometry.

    14. GEOPAK Impact GEOPAK now has to check to make sure that the Storage Units of the design file match the GEOPAK User Preferences. If they do not match, you will be given several options …

    16. Design Plane There is still a Design Plane Use of DPFP gives a Design Plane two million times larger in each direction Large Design Plane should do away with “Element Outside of Design Plane” error messages Accuracy is greatest near the origin of the design plane Accuracy is worst at the very edge of a large working area. It’s millions of times greater near the origin of the design plane.

    17. Design Plane

    18. Design Plane

    19. Design Plane

    20. Design Plane

    21. User Impact Seed Files Design planes are large enough to eliminate multiple seed files Accuracy is great enough to eliminate the need for multiple seed files (e.g. GEOPAK xsections)

    22. User Impact The working unit setup in MicroStation V8 has almost no effect on precision in real-world units. We recommend that you use whatever working units you have previously been using in V7 to minimize difficulties with going back and forth between V7 and V8 formats. Barry Bentley

    23. Models

    24. Models

    25. Models

    26. Models

    27. Models

    29. User Impact This is more of a user preference choice. User can choose to use this functionality or not. If you always draw in the default (master) model, it’s just like V7.

    30. GEOPAK Impact The initial release of GEOPAK V8 will be impacted in the following 4 ways: 1) When writing elements to a design file, the elements will always be written to the active model.

    31. 2) When reading elements from an unopened design file (e.g. Proposed Cross Section Patterns, Superelevation Shapes), elements will be read from ALL models in the DGN file.

    32. 3) The File/Model concept will not be supported in a selective environment (i.e. you will only be able to specify/select a design file, not a model within that design file).

    33. 4) Certain tools such as Shape Analyst and D&C Quantities, which function on a WYSIWYG basis, will continue to do so. In other words, whatever pertinent elements that are displayed will be calculated or computed.

    35. Cells Cell names are limited to approximately 500 characters Cell sizes are unlimited in V8 V8 cell libraries can contain both 2D and 3D cells 2D cells can be placed in 3D files and vice-versa

    36. User Impact Users can now combine their 2D and 3D cell libraries if they wish. Cells can be renamed to take advantage of the new cell characteristics

    37. GEOPAK Impact Make sure that all applications that read, place, tag or compute cells are upgraded to take into account the new cell characteristics.

    39. References Change in Terminology and Concept Reference Enhancements

    40. Change in Terminology and Concept In V8, the term “reference file” becomes obsolete The V8 term is “reference” because references are between models A model may reference other models or itself A DGN file cannot reference a model or vice-versa

    41. Reference Enhancements Attach an unlimited number of references to the active model Attach DWG files to the active model as references Attach a 3D reference to a 2D master model and vice-versa

    42. User Impact No longer limited by the 32 reference file limitation in V7.

    43. GEOPAK Impact Support unlimited reference files in all applications that use them (e.g. plan/profile clipping).

    45. Element Placement A line_string, shape or fence can have up to 5000 vertices (maximum 101 in V7) There is no limit to the number of components in a complex chain or complex shape Maximum element size increased to 128 Kb There is no limit to the number of graphic groups A single line of text can contain 64,000 characters

    46. User Impact Users can create larger and longer elements

    47. GEOPAK Impact GEOPAK can create larger and longer elements: 1) Profiles and ground lines that use line_strings will no longer have to be broken up 2) Superelevation and computational shapes can be larger and longer.

    49. Levels Level Characteristics Level Based Symbology (ByLevel)

    50. Level Characteristics Unlimited (4 billion) levels Minimum of 1 level 512 character limit per level name Level names are not case sensitive Characters > < / \ . “ ? * | , = are not permitted You can delete unused levels

    51. User Impact Re-structuring of Level Standards CADD Manuals Standard Criteria Libraries Existing In-house Programs

    53. GEOPAK Impact – UI

    54. REVISED Tools/Applications

    55. What kind of changes can I expect in the way GEOPAK looks?

    56. Notice when the application draws Microstation elements, you can only select LEVEL NAMES.

    58. Notice when the application searches for elements, you can select LEVEL NAMES and NUMBERS.

    61. The new level name syntax is also carried over to input and criteria files:

    62. Note: What if level specified by user does not exist? GEOPAK will place the item on level “default” (0).

    63. Level Based Symbology (ByLevel) All levels have a default number, color, line weight and style when created but can be modified to whatever you wish.

    64. Level Based Symbology (ByLevel)

    65. ByLevel

    66. ByLevel Syntax

    67. A Project Profile Tab has been added to the Draw Profile tool to give it the same functionality as the Draw Plan & Profile dialog in D&C Manager.

    68. You’ll also notice changes to the User Preferences dialog. Notice the Superelevation and Plan/Profile “Classic” options are gone.

    69. NEW Tools/Applications in GEOPAK V8

    74. RETIRED Tools/Applications in GEOPAK V8

    86. Conversion Issues

    87. By default, V8 level names are constructed by applying a prefix “Level” to the V7 level number. “43” in V7 ? “Level 43” in V8 Environment variable MS_V7_LEVEL_NAME_PREFIX “43” ? “Level 43”(MS_V7_LEVEL_NAME_PREFIX not set) “43” ? “43” (MS_V7_LEVEL_NAME_PREFIX = NULL) “43” ? “GEO 43” (MS_V7_LEVEL_NAME_PREFIX = GEO)

    88. In order to accommodate the upgrade to MicroStation V8.1, changes were required in the file structure of all GEOPAK databases and project files including: * DDB - Design and Computation Manager database * TIN File - Digital Terrain TIN file * SMD - Survey Manager database files * GSF file - Site project file * GDF file - Drainage project file * DDB ASCII Export File * SMD ASCII Export File * PSL file - Plan Sheet Library * Labeler Style Files * Geotech Preference Files * RTR file - Tables definition file * All Project Manager Runs

    89. Important: The conversion of the DDB/SMD level structure will depend on the design file.

    90. V7 Level Structure (DDB)

    91. Important: Although the DDB and SMD formats have changed, users can keep them in V7 format and continue to use them in both V7 and V8. The disadvantage is that Edit and Save operations can only be done within GEOPAK V7 and there is an additional load time each time the DDB or SMD file is opened. Once you Save a DDB or SMD file in V8, it is permanently converted to a V8 format and is NOT backward compatible with V7.

    92. Note: In order to take advantage of the new level names in V8, databases that deal with levels (e.g. DDB,SMD) will have to be converted to a new format.

    93. NOTE: There are no changes to the COGO database (gpk) file structure.

    94. Workmodes

    95. V7 Workmode We will not support V7 Workmode in GEOPAK 8.1.

    96. DWG Workmode We will not support DWG Workmode in GEOPAK 8.1.

    97. Where can I get it?

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