Overview

This functionality offers the ability to combine sheets and 3D models into a single, unified digital representation of a project. It provides the ability to publish both an index of sheets and a 3D model into a single, cohesive digital deliverable within Bentley Infrastructure Cloud. Using the sheet index within OpenRoads to manage sheet naming and organization, you can include the index of sheets along with the design model in an Infrastructure Cloud connection.

 

{Figure 1: Project view of model, sheet, and sheet index within Bentley Infrastructure Cloud}

 

To include an index of sheets in an Infrastructure Cloud project:

1. Set up a sheet index within OpenRoads

 

{Figure 2: Sheet index within OpenRoads and Infrastructure Cloud}

 

 

2. Toggle to include the sheet index within the infrastructure cloud connection

 

{Figure 3: Connection setup within Bentley Infrastructure Cloud}

 

Finding the Sheet Index

Once the project with a sheet index is published to Infrastructure Cloud, the index of sheets is located behind the Civil Frontstage. You can open the Civil frontstage from the drop-down menu on the upper left of the model view.

 

{Figure 4: The Civil frontstage is located on the menu in the upper left of the model view}

 

The Sheet Index widget is in the fly-out panel on the right side of the model view.

 

{Figure 5: The sheet index is located on the right-hand panel}

 

The Sheet Index widget allows navigation of sheets in the project and selection in two ways, as a graphical Index Map or by navigating a folder structure for the Index of Sheets.

 

{Figure 6: Sheets can be opened using the Index of Sheets list}

 

Index Map

The Sheet Index Map provides both a graphical location selection for sheet named boundaries (plan or sections are supported with a mode toggle) in a simplified project location overview preview with basic zoom / pan options to help locate and emphasises any named boundaries used in the sheet index (left hand side), as well as a sheet list that can be presented as either a list or with preview thumbnails (default). The Sheet index map includes text search capability for the sheet name.

 

{Figure 7: Sheets can also be selected and opened from the Sheet Index Map}

[Note - where a named boundary is selected graphically that is used in multiple sheets, a filter is applied to the available sheets in the right-hand panel, allowing selection of the desired sheet.]

 

{Figure 9: Section named boundary mode for the Sheet Index Map}

 

Once a sheet is selected a sheet view will open after selecting a sheet from the list.

 

{Figure 10: Sheet Viewer default docking after selection of sheet}

 

 

[TECHNICAL PREVIEW] Sheet Viewer

The Sheet Viewer defaults to a docked state below the model view. It can be unpinned as a floating window to support full screen viewing with multiple monitors (Technical Preview). The viewer supports the core View Controls ribbon as well as interactive zoom and pan.

The Sheet Viewer Toolbar provides 3 control areas:

 

Measurements

These tools provide tools that work in the sheets named boundaries, allowing for real world model measurements to be temporarily placed in the current session that are tied to the view context ie vertical distance is constrained to profile and section views.

 

{Figure 11: Sheet Measurement tools}

 

Sheet Selection

The tool allows for simple stepping forward and backward for the current sheet series as well as a drop down listing for all project sheets in the index.

 

{Figure 12: Sheet Selection menu}

 

Sheet View Options and Tools

The View Options provide some controls for Interactivity between the sheet and design model views.

Sync Location – when selecting a sheet, the design model view synchronises to the current sheet.

• For Plan and Plan/ Profiles sheets, the design model will zoom and rotate to align the model and the plan sheet together.
• For profile only sheets the sheet the design model extents and location will be adjusted to fit the plan element rotated to align horizontally view
• For section views in the sheet the model extents and location will be adjusted to fit the section locations in the view.

 

Animate location changes – on changing sheet the model view, to provide a sense of location, animates the zoom out from it’s current location, tracks to the new location where it zooms in rotating the view to fit the new sheet.

Sync Presentation – this option overrides active saved view / model / category selections, to present a ‘close presentation match’ for the categories used the sheet.  [Note - It does not re-symbolize the model where display overrides / pen tables are applied in the sheet, clip the model contents to the sheet or apply any annotation in the sheet.]

Shade Boundary Presentation – this option applies a light shading to the current named boundary

 

Additional Sheet tools

Dynamic Zoom (on/off) – this option enables selections in the sheet model to automatically zoom the model to the element selected in the sheet. Each view (model / section / profile / sheet) has this option, and it allows selection in a view and if present will automatically zoom to the same element in the other views.

Popout active widget – this option opens the docked widget to a floating view that can be moved to another screen and viewed full screen. Closing a Pop Out view will dock it again. 

Print Sheet – this option allows water marked printing of the current sheet and includes an embedded URL link.

{Figure 13: Sheet View Options menu}