Table of Contents
1 Introduction
OpenGround Civil Tools Extension to Bentley Civil Design Products allow users to import OpenGround data and bring the richness of subsurface information into the design process. It has been designed to ease the task of creating and visualizing geological and subsurface information.
The extension is designed to visualize the geotechnical data as stored in OpenGround in plan, 3D, profile, and cross section view. You can include this information in your plan productions to enrich your deliverables. The Meshes, created from geotechnical data, are a great starting point in the interpretation, modelling, and visualization process.
2 Installation
2.1 Software Prerequisites:
The Civil Extension is a separate installer, delivered as part of the OpenGround launcher and can be installed on:
- OpenRoads Designer 2024
- OpenBridge Modeler 2024
- OpenRail Designer 2024
- OpenTunnel 2024
- OpenSite 2024
You also need OpenGround Launcher with an OpenGround Cloud access.
2.2 Supported Operating System
Same as OpenRoads Designer 2024 – Add link to ORD supported OS
2.4 Licensing
This product version utilizes Subscription Entitlement Service.
Subscription Entitlement Service features new behavior to enhance your organization's user administration and security with mandatory user sign-in to access the application.
You will need an OpenGround Cloud login before you can use the App. Existing OpenGround Cloud users can log in using the same information as you log into OpenGround Cloud with. New users will need to contact your OpenGround Cloud administrators to ensure you have a login created.
3. OpenGround Connection
To import data from OpenGround in OpenRoads Designer, you need access to at least one OpenGround Cloud instance and granted access to at least one project.
3.1 OpenGround Cloud
The selected cloud in OpenGround Launcher will be used when connecting to OpenGround from the Connection Settings dialog.
To access a different cloud, you must close your OpenRoads Designer session, select the appropriate cloud from the Cloud drop down list in the OpenGround Launcher and restart your OpenX session.
3.2 OpenGround Project Access and Required Roles
To import data from OpenGround, you need at least the “Read / View Only” role for one or more project.
For details about how to manage user accounts in OpenGround, please refer to the OpenGround Professional documentation.
Note: you should create one DGN file per project to avoid any mismatch. Multi-Project in a single design file is not supported at this stage.
3.3 Error Log
Logs are stored in: %localappdata%\Bentley\OpenGround\CivilToolsExtension\logs
4. Coordinate Systems
It is crucial to assign the appropriate coordinate system to the DGN file in OpenRoads Designer. The coordinate system must match the one assigned to the OpenGround project.
Coordinate System assigned to an OpenGround project:
Corresponding coordinate system, assigned to the DGN file in which OpenGround data will be imported:
5. OpenGround Extension Tools
OpenGround tab and its specific tools display when Geotechnical Extension is selected from the Workflow ribbon:
Connectivity group
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Connection Settings: Display the dialog required to select the OpenGround project and define the mapping between the OpenGround tables and Feature Definitions. |
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Refresh: Query the data from OpenGround based on actual selection from the connectivity dialog. |
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Query Documents: List all documents attached to a borehole location. |
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Quick Log: Display and download (in PDF format), the borehole location log. |
Modeling group
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Create Terrain: Create a terrain model element to represent a specific feature. |
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Create Mesh: Create a mesh based on selected feature. |
Civil Tools group
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Project Boring Locations: Selected borehole locations will be projected to an existing Profile.
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Named Boundary: Used to create Profile and Cross Section Drawing. |
5.1 Connectivity > Connection Settings
The Connection Settings tool will display the dialog required to select the OpenGround project and
define the mapping between the OpenGround tables and Feature Definitions.
The first dialog will display the project list. Only the projects you’ve been granted access to will be displayed.
You can search for the project using the filter tool in the different columns.
Select a Project and click Next. The Project dialog will display:
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Project Details |
This section provides some information about the selected OpenGround project. This section can be collapsed. |
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Location Group |
Display available location group(s) for this project (if any). An OpenGround Location group is a subset of location within the project, allowing to filter the locations to be queried. This section can be collapsed. |
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OpenGround Group |
OpenGround Group list. |
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Type |
Type of data stored in the table (Depth, Depth Interval or Other). Usually, the type is defined in OpenGround and automatically selected. If not, the appropriate type can be manually selected from the list. (see Note below) |
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Civil Feature Definition |
Let you select and existing Feature Definition (from the master DGN or the DGN library file currently loaded). When the Create New option is selected, a feature definition (with the same name as the OpenGround Group) will be created for you. This is a good way to help you create a DGNLib for your organization, instead of manually creating Feature Definitions for each OpenGround Goup. |
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Property Based Symbology |
For each selected property, an element template folder will be created and will contain all the values. This helps you create a DGNLib for your organization, instead of manually creating Element Templates. |
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Back |
Return to the previous panel. |
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Save |
Save the actual mapping and create the Feature Definitions where Create New has been selected in the master DGN file. |
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Import |
Clicking Import will query the data. |
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Close |
Close the dialog without importing the data. |
Note: The Type of data being stored in an OpenGround table is defined in the Configuration Pack. Usually, the type is defined and automatically detected (Depth or Depth Interval will be automatically set in this case). However, in rare cases, if this information cannot be retrieved, the “Other” will be selected and user must perform an action to query the data: either specify the type as part of the OpenGround data model in OpenGround Professional, or manually specify which type must be used to create the graphic element in the DGN file.
5.2 Connectivity > Refresh
The Connection Settings tool will d