Bentley MX V8 XM

Overview
Objectives of this E-seminar
• Introduction to Bentley MXROAD Suite
• How it provides a complete design to drafting
solution with automated drawing production
• How to utilise its dynamic design capabilities and
built in CAD toolsets to efficiently
• Preview its powerful visualization capabilities
• Produce Standard Deliverables including
drawings and reports
Project Delivery for
• Toll and Free ways
• Widening/Renewal/maintenance road projects
• Urban/City Roads
• Road Drainage
Based on
• Design Standards ( IRC, BS, AASTHO, etc….)
• Optimized design and quantity
• & have several design iterations (Feasibility,
etc…)
 MX – As you know and have used…..
MX XM – As available today……..
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MX XM

• Extends previous MX functionality

by using the Bentley CAD platform
to provide an all inclusive design
production system.
Including:-
batch plotting, reference & raster
management, publish to pdf, Save as
DWG or DGN, dimensioning, etc …
–Do it all and never leave MX!
Bentley MXRoad Suite
Overview
 MXRoad MXRoadSuite

Drainage Drainage

MXRoad MXRoad

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 MXRoad MXRoadSuite

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MXRoad Suite
Bentley MXROAD Suite combines all of the
power of MXROAD—an advanced, string-based
modeling tool for new design of all road types,
together with PowerSurvey— an all-in-one,
standalone survey solution
MXRENEW— a complimentary solution that fits
new design onto existing roads for rehabilitation
and reconstruction, and
MXURBAN— parametric design software for
roads in cities and urban areas,
with comprehensive Drainage design
functionality with interactive and powerful
drawing production.
MX Design Solution
(Highlights)
Quick Alignment Features

• Dynamic Horizontal design

– Transitions by Design Speed
– Simple corridor design
– Automated Design Annotation

• Dynamic Vertical Design

– Design Annotation
– Tracking
– Align Plan / Profile views
Quick Alignments Demonstration
Corridor Design

Aimed at providing full corridor modelling

capability, relative to design speed

• Design Speeds
• Road templates
• Superelevation rules and editing
• Automatic curve widening
• Shoulder design
• Kerbs verges and footways
• Earthworks
Corridor Design (Cont…..)

• Change design speeds while designing the

corridor
• Single and dual carriageways
• All information is stored, so you can modify as
required
• Full undo / redo support
• Uses engine options to update the model file
• Current Vertical geometry designed in
Parametric Fitting is now stored
Corridor Design Demonstration
MX Drawing Solutions
(Highlights)
2D Schematic Plan

• Developed to meet specific drawing

requirements:
– Utilizes an existing Alignment to create a new linear
baseline
– Data selection via model / masking
– Allows application of offset scale factor
– Resulting model is re-constructed from
perpendiculars dropped back onto the baseline inside
the offset range.
– Resulting models can be sheeted using existing final
drawings options to give linear aligned plan
drawings.
2D Schematic Plan Demonstration
 Final Drawings
 Customizable Annotation for plan / profile / section
drawings
 Dynamic Sheet Layout and Management Toolset
 Combinations of plan / profile / section drawings and
includes creation of Keyviews
 Inclusion of Standard Details / external drawings in
produced layouts
 Plan / Profile Sheets defined by
 fixed length / Overlaps / Aligned to grid / Stepped Profiles ….
 Cross Section Sheets defined by
 Best fit to page / variable height / width / multiple columns /
Chainage ranges / Specified Chainages …

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 Final Drawings

 Scripting:
 Provides a means of automatically re-running Final
Drawings options to re-create drawings – possibly
following design changes
 Available from input files – from plan annotation through
to publishing drawing sets

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 Final Drawing Demonstration…

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MX Visualisation
(Highlights)
Visualization

– Visibility Analysis –site distance calculations as per

AASTO/British/Indian and many more..
– Integration with GOOGLE EARTH
– Drive through viewer
– 3D Viewer and flythrough tools
Visibility Analysis
 Google Earth
Google Earth

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Project cycle stages
• 3D viewer
• Drive through viewer
• Fly Through
 Civil Enhancements

Roundabouts

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Bentley Civil Enhancements
Roundabouts
XM Version (08.09.04.99)

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Overview

• Civil Enhancements: a set of tasks that add

functionality to InRoads, MX, and PowerCivil,
based on MicroStation and PowerDraft.

• The learning requirement is minimised by

using a common dynamic interface, work flow
and design technique for all the tasks

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Native Design Products

Civil Enhancements

InRoads XM MX XM PowerCivil

The Civil Tasks are used to add specific design

items to your design which are stored in the
DGN with integrated intelligence.
At any point in the design process, the design
items can also be written to the native product.
This permits further work to be carried out
using the tools in the native product

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Plan Layouts of Roundabouts
• Tool for designing plan layouts of roundabouts

Roundabouts designed using these tasks

behave as 'objects', so a change to one
feature will automatically update all of
the associated features

Roundabout Templates are stored in a library

which contains different roundabouts

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 System Requirements
• The following configuration details the recommended requirements
for MX V8 XM Edition running under Windows Vista, Windows 2000
or Windows XP

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System Requirements

• System software and settings

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