OpenRoads Designer

Construction-driven Design

OpenRoads Designer

OpenRoads Designer introduces a new comprehensive modelling environment to provide construction-driven engineering to help accelerate project delivery of road networks, unifying design and construction processes from concept to completion. The application provides complete detailed design capabilities for surveying, drainage, subsurface utilities, and roadway design.

OpenRoads Designer redefines best practices for the generating design and construction deliverables and ensures the exchange of data throughout the project delivery and asset lifecycle. 

Pricing and Purchase

Access Manufactured Components

Access the Component Center – a set of cloud services enabling faster access and more consistent use of manufactured components and organisation or project-specific content and standards. Use the parametric components in specific applications and industries across multidiscipline project teams, while supporting knowledge sharing between personnel and enabling the persistence of component information across the asset lifecycle.

Automate drawing production

Automate the production of high-quality drawings, including multidiscipline documentation sets, which are consistent across the entire project. Get a live view of the project in sheet orientation. As the design changes, so will the sheets. Make edits directly in the design model and the application will update the sheets.

Create vertical and horizontal alignments

Use object-oriented coordinate geometry and alignment design capabilities that provide intelligent updating as you quickly create precision horizontal and vertical alignments. Use elevation profiles to display surface information as well as vertical alignments associated with horizontal alignments.

Create profiles and cross sections

Create profiles and cross sections from any point within the design. View updates on the fly as the design is modified with dynamic cross sections. You can see the ground changing to reflect design edits. Include surface features, corridor components, and notations such as construction limits or stationing.

Design and analyse corridors

Use immersive corridor modelling capabilities that support complex modelling and file federation demands required by BIM Level 2 and beyond. Streamline the complex development of every aspect of the roadway in a single, parametric presentation. You can move rapidly along a corridor at controlled intervals, viewing and dynamically designing all roadway components in concert.

Geospatially locate projects

Integrate geospatial information from hundreds of supported coordinate systems into your designs. Access data from OGC Web Map Servers, use real-time GPS data, and create and reference geospatial PDFs.

Integrate point clouds and raster imagery

​Easily incorporate a wide range and scale of point-cloud data into the design environment. Incorporate raster imagery of all types, including aerial and satellite imagery and scanned documents. Choose from dozens of supported file formats including Google Earth KML, CALS, BMP, TIF, GeoTIFF, JPG and many more.

Integrate reality meshes

​Incorporate precise photo-textured 3D reality meshes created with ContextCapture software into your designs. These highly realistic models can be used directly in the design environment as the basis for your design and construction modelling for faster and better quality models.

Model and analyse terrain

Create intelligent models containing not only terrain data but also roadway or site features. You can use features to visually distinguish structure, appearance, and symbology in the design.

Perform design-time analysis

Ensure visibility into overall project performance with design-time analytics to achieve optimised design outcomes for a wide variety of analysis such as drainage, terrain, safety, grading, site visibility, and more.

Render in real time with cinematic quality

Create stunning photo-realistic visualisations in seconds using dynamic immersive visualisation engine platform providing natural looking light and shadows, real-time global illumination, IES point and spotlights, lens flares, and luminous materials. Interactively adjust time of day, add lens flares, and apply depth of field while benefiting from highly accurate reflections, anti-aliasing, and motion blur.

Reuse common design layouts

Use civil cells to ensure standards are implemented, increase design quality, and eliminate the need to repeatedly design common configurations. If you can design it, a civil cell can handle it. There is no limit to the simplicity or complexity of a civil cell.

Visualise designs

Experience your designs in real time with constraint-driven templates, a context sensitive intuitive interface, and dynamic 3D modelling. Visualise the design at any time and on demand within the modelling workflow. No translations, software, or special workflow process is needed.

Work in a personalised environment

You can confidently work in the right context for each project because the required settings and standards are automatically applied. You can also take advantage of personalised recommendations to help you get the most from your use of the software.

Key Features

  • Assemble context data rapidly from a variety of sources, such as point clouds, 3D reality meshes, terrain data, images, and geospatial information to bring real-world settings to your project. 
  • Use Catalog Services to manage and deliver functional components for consistent generative design across the engineering workgroup. 
  • Achieve exponential modelling performance gains with the model-centric production of design deliverables. 
  • Access Documentation Center to produce multi-discipline documentation for all work on assets across the project.
  • Enable users to share project information across teams, locations, and disciplines with precision and security.
  • Share realistic visualisations with the public and stakeholders to gather feedback, improve public engagements, and speed project approvals.