quickstart - evaluating and creating subsurface utilities ......selectseries 4 (08.11.09.845) or...

Practice Workbook

This workbook is designed for use in Live instructor-led training and for OnDemand self study. The explanations and demonstrations are provided by the instructor in the classroom, or in the OnDemand videos for this course available on the Bentley LEARN Server (learn.bentley.com).

This practice workbook is formatted for on-screen viewing using a PDF reader. It is also available as a PDF document in the dataset for this course.

DO NOT DISTRIBUTE - Printing for student use is permitted

TRNC02541-1/0001

QuickStart: Evaluating and Creating Subsurface Utilities

SELECTseries 4 (08.11.09.845) or newer

About this Practice Workbook...

This PDF file includes bookmarks providing an overview of the document. Click on the bookmark to quickly jump to any section in the file. You may have to turn on the bookmark function in your PDF viewer.

Both Imperial and Metric files are included in the dataset. Throughout this practice workbook Imperial values are specified first and the metric values second with the metric values enclosed in square brackets. For example: 12’ [3.4m]

Having an appropriate workspace is very important when using the OpenRoads technology. The workspace contains the standards and other design specifications needed to complete your work.

This training uses the Bentley-Civil workshop delivered with the software. It is very important that you select the Bentley-Civil workspace when working the exercises in this course.

http://learn.bentley.com

Copyright © 2016 Bentley Systems, Incorporated 2DO NOT DISTRIBUTE - Printing for student use is permitted

Exercise 1: Exploring the Design File and Utility Properties

Description

In this exercise we will start the software and review the drainage structures using “standard” tools...

Skills Taught

Tooltips

Element Info

Utility Properties

Context Menu

Open a Utilities-laden Design File

1. Start the software.

2. Select the workspace...

Help with the Workspace

If the Bentley-Civil-Imperial or [Bentley-Civil-Metric] projects are not listed, review the troubleshooting information in the Bentley Communities by clicking here or visiting communities.bentley.com and searching for “Civil Workspace”.

3. Browse to the folder where you unzipped the dataset files and select the file _Drainage Design.dgn [_Drainage Design-Metric.dgn]

Note: the Imperial and Metric datasets are very similar, but not exact. Callouts and images may vary from the documentation.

InRoads, GEOPAK, and PowerCivil Users

A. Select the User, Project, and Interface settings.

User: Examples

Project: Bentley-Civil-Imperial or [Bentley-Civil-Metric]

Interface: Bentley-Civil

Continue with step 3 below

MX ROAD Users

A. On the MX Project Start Up window, click New Project.

B. Click Browse and select the folder where the training dataset is located.

C. Key in Training in the Project Name field.

D. Set the Default MX Project Settings to UK_imperial [UK_metric].

E. Select the User, Project, and Interface settings.

User: Examples

Project: Bentley-Civil-Imperial or [Bentley-Civil-Metric]

Interface: Bentley-Civil

F. Click OK. The MX project files are created and thesoftware opens into a blank file named draw.dgn.

G. Select File > Open from the CAD menu.

Continue with step 3

http://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki/23645.troubleshooting-the-bentley-civil-workspace

http://communities.bentley.com


The design file is part of a “federated” dataset. Design files are segregated by purpose - different engineering object types or scopes are in their own file. The project is integrated through the vigorous use of reference files. Again, QuickStart for Roadway Designers, available on Bentley LEARN, is an excellent introduction to these best practices and more.

4. Verify the file. It consists of a drainage network in the active file, with a roadway, terrain and aerial background attached. A 2D and a 3D View are open.

2D Top View (rotated to fit on page)


3D View


Scenarios

In some ways, a dgn file is simply a container for 2D and 3D Models, much like a Microsoft Excel file is a container for Worksheets. The sewer data structure in OpenRoads is organized by Scenarios. Like Models, one or Scenarios are available within a dgn file. Like Models, the contents of different scenarios will differ and analysis and evaluations of one Scenario in a file will yield different results.

Extending beyond the capabilities of Models and Worksheets, the Alternatives that make up Scenarios can be independent or their properties and data inherited from other alternatives. This makes managing multiple designs very efficient. Please see the Managing Multiple Design Scenarios class to thoroughly master these concept and tools.

Scenarios may impact this Evaluation class in only one way: if your results are differing significantly from the results in the book, you may have an incorrect Current Scenario. When you are evaluating a “real-life” dgn file and your results are differing from your expectations, the first thing to check is the Current Scenario.

Note: There should be no need, for this class, to explore the file’s Scenarios.


Product Activation

The Subsurface Utility Design and Analysis (SUDA) platform consists of two license scopes. The Drainage and Analysis scope is included with OpenRoads technology under Hydraulic Analysis labels and StormCAD/CivilStorm/SewerGEMS branding. Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) is a separate scope requiring a separate license activation. It extends the Subsurface Utilities capabilities to include Conflict Detection and non-sewer utility attribution.

Depending on your installation, licensing or workflow, you may encounter tools that require activating a license. Tools requiring license activation open a message dialog stating so. Licenses only need to be activated once per open design session.

A license activation dialog looks like this:

1. If prompted to activate a license, select Tools > Product Add‐Ins > Subsurface Utility Design and Analysis and then select the appropriate product. SUE is shown below.

You will be prompted only once per software use session.


Evaluating with GUI Tools

OpenRoads utilities are 3D. Civil Engineering mathematics and modeling is based on a horizontal geometry rule set (lines, circular arcs, spirals) and a different vertical geometry rule set (lines and parabolas). Utilities, like most OpenRoads 3D objects, have a horizontal 2D component and vertical information to create the full 3D representation. The default and “root” model for OpenRoads and OpenRoads Utilities is the 2D model. The 3D model components are generally children of 2D parents.

A rule of thumb in OpenRoads: Think 2D first.

The Models built from the Bentley Workspace are very detailed. Feel free to vary the orientation and Display Sets (rendering modes) of the 3D views. The training files may contain Saved Views that emphasize the richness of the model.

1. Hold the cursor over a pipe.

Hovering over any element in MicroStation/OpenRoads/SUE reveals information via the Tooltips.


Your file may only show the default MicroStation Tooltips, but the utility Tooltips can be customized to display attributes from the drainage database. Tooltips can be customized via Subsurface Utilities > View > Tooltip Customizations. Shared Customizations can be setup for multiple users.

2. Hold the cursor over an inlet.

Note that the Inlet display also contains a “Connection ring.”


Note: The Connection Ring is a Construction Class element used for connecting conduits. As a child object of the Inlet, it does not have many properties of its own.

3. Click on an Inlet (with the Element Selection tool active) and hover over it to get the Context Menu (all OpenRoads elements have a “Context Menu”).

The Context Menu for inlets includes Quick Properties, Graphs, and Utility Properties tools.

Note the Handles and Rotation Text field and the grayed-out elevation to the upper right of the inlet. These variables were defined during layout and can be viewed and edited in the Element Information dialog. The grayed-out Text Manipulator for Rim Elevation indicates that it cannot be edited in the Heads Up Display. The Elevation is defined by a Vertical Offset relative to a terrain. This offset is editable in the Element Information dialog.


4. Select a Pipe (click on it with the Element Selection tool active).

5. Review its Element Information.

The utility-specific areas on the dialog are the Feature pane and the Utility pane.

The Feature Definition is the utility type. The size can be read/changed via the Description field or via the Diameter field in the Utility pane.

Notice the Invert fields in the Utility pane.

The Utility Properties dialog, which provides additional functionality can be accessed from the

Element Information dialog:


Review Utility Properties

1. Click on a Pipe and hover over it to open the Context Menu.

2. Click on the Utility Properties icon.

Note: The bottom of the dialog shows descriptions of any selected data field.


This dialog is like many utility dialogs: there are two tabs at the top:

Subsurface Utilities Engineering and

Hydraulic Analysis.


Depending on your active licensing, you may not see all the options. In general, the SUE tabs are limited to spatial and physical characteristic information while the Hydraulic Analysis tabs are limited to the full properties of sewer and drainage structures and hydrology information. If running both SUE and Hydraulic Analysis, there may be some overlap in capability.


Exercise 2: Displaying Labels

Description

In this exercise we will work with Analytic Views to see Structure Labeling and Color Coding.

Skills Taught

Turn on Analytic Views

Try out various Symbology Presets

Make the Symbology permanent Annotation


Displaying Labels

1. .Open the View Attributes dialog for View 1. This can be done in many ways:

Click Settings > View Attributes

Press Ctrl‐B

Click the View Attributes pull-down in the View 1 View Menu

2. Expand the Analytic Symbology panel.

Note: Note: Analytic Symbology is available only in 2D Views.

3. Enable Use Analytic Symbology.

4. Select Hydraulic Analysis as the Product.

Note: Subsurface Utilities Engineering and Hydraulic Analysis have different Definitions.

5. Select the various Symbology Definitions and observe the view’s label changes.

The Active Font determines the font of the symbology.

The Text Size can be changed in Project > Project Defaults > Drawing.


Making Labels “Permanent”

The Analytic Symbology at this point is not “Permanent Graphics”. To create “standard” MicroStation graphics, use the Create Labels from Analytic View tool.

The Active Level “receives” the graphics. Set the Active Level to a level appropriate for annotation before using the command.


Exercise 3: Displaying Tabular Data

Description

In this exercise we will work with FlexTables to display data in tabular form

Skills Taught

Review Predefined FlexTables

Edit FlexTables

Generate Reports

Export FlexTables


Displaying Tabular Data

1. Click the FlexTables tool:

The FlexTables dialog opens showing the Predefined, Shared and Project FlexTables.

Predefined FlexTables are those delivered with the software. Project FlexTables are those defined in the Active Design File. Any new FlexTables that you were to create in this class would be stored as Project FlexTables.

Shared FlexTables can be shared across multiple users and computers (by sharing a particular file (not covered in this class)).


The FlexTables dialog opens showing the Predefined, Shared and Project FlexTables.

Because the focus of SUE is different than Hydraulic Analysis, the FlexTables and the available fields differ between products.

indicates that data exists for a particular structure type; indicates no data.


2. In the Hydraulic Analysis tab, double-click on the Catch Basin Table Predefined FlexTable.

A FlexTable consists of a set of attributes in a series of columns. Columns can be added and dragged into different orders. Data can be filtered and sorted. Each Row of the table represents an individual structure.

Double-clicking a table shows all the elements of that type.

Note: A FlexTable can be run against an active selection set,

by right-clicking on the FlexTable name and clicking Open on Selection.


3. Click on the Edit button to select additional data fields.

4. Add some fields of your choosing to the FlexTable


Export FlexTable data

In addition to standard copy-and-paste capability, XML Reports can be created from FlexTables.

1. Select Report > Report in XML.

The Report Viewer opens with controls to Save and Print the report.

Right-clicking in the Report Viewer allows Exporting to Excel.


Exercise 4: Queries

Description

In this exercise we will review some of the Predefined Queries and define one of our own.

Skills Taught

Review the predefined Subsurface Utilities Engineering queries and the predefined Hydraulic Analysis queries

Create a Query

Run FlexTables against Query-filtered data

Generate Reports on Queried data.


Review Predefined Queries

Queries allow you to select subsets of data passing simple or complex criteria or filters. The results of running a query is a selection set in MicroStation. Query selection sets, like any other selection set, can be “voided” using the MicroStation Select Tool.

1. Click the Queries tool:

The Queries dialog opens.

A number of queries designed to be useful are delivered with the software.They are found under the Queries - Predefined headers under the Subsurface Utilities Engineering and Hydraulic Analysis tabs.

Project and Shared Queries are like Project and Shared FlexTables.

The SUE queries are limited in scope, mainly to identify one type of line or node from another and to identify spatial conflicts.

The scope of the Hydraulic Analysis queries is much more broad, incorporating queries to differentiate between physical attributes and hydraulic settings and results.


2. Review the Predefined Queries.

3. Double-click the Trace Downstream... query in Hydraulic Analysis > Queries - Predefined > Network Trace.


This query prompts us to select a structure from the drawing.

4. In the Query Parameters dialog, click the pull-down menu to the right of the Upstream Element line.

5. Click on Select...

6. Select a structure in the design file.

7. The Query Parameters dialog returns with the name of the structure. Click OK.

The structures receiving flow from the selected structure are highlighted in the drawing.

8. Feel free to explore other queries.


Create a New Query

It is easy to create a query. In this exercise, we will create a simple query that checks for large pipes.

We can create new queries in the Queries - Project only

1. . Right-click on the Queries - Project “folder”. Click New > Query.


2. The next step is to select the Element Type. In the Queries - Select Element Type dialog, select Conduit.

3. Click OK.

This opens the Query Builder dialog where we build the Queries.

The bottom window is the “Query”. A query can be typed in directly; the controls above it are designed to minimize typing when building the query. Double-clicking any of the structure Fields places the field name in the Query window. Single-clicking the Operator buttons adds them to the Query window.


We will build a query that identifies Storm Pipes where the Diameter is greater than 18 inches.

4. Double-click on the Diameter object in the Fields list.

“ConduitDiameter” - the precise name of the database field - appears in the Query window.

Once a field is selected, you can see what unique values are in the design file by clicking the Unique Refresh button in the upper right of the dialog. Values are listed below.

5. Click the greater than > button.

“>” is appended to the query.

6. Type 18 [375] after the >

“ConduitDiameter > 18” or “ConduitDiameter > 375” will find all Storm Pipes that are greater than 18 inches or 375mm in diameter.


7. Click OK to finish building the Query.


8. Rename the New Query to Pipes>18 [Pipes>375].

9. Double-click on the new query.

A highlighted selection set is created of pipes with diameters greater than 18 inches or 375mm.

Hint: You can change the highlight color at Settings > Design File > Color > Selection Set Color


Review data on only the highlighted structures

10. Click the FlexTables tool.

11. Right-click on the Conduit Table FlexTable, and click Open on Selection.


The FlexTable shows only the highlighted pipes.


Exercise 5: Profiles

Description

In this exercise we will show individual pipe profiles as well as full pipe runs.

Skills Taught


Create an Individual Pipe Profile

1. Click and hover over a pipe.

All OpenRoads elements have a context menu available by clicking and hovering.

2. Click Open Profile Model.

You are prompted to “Select or Open View”.

3. Open a new View. Place a datapoint in the newly-opened view to place the profile.

Note: Views can be opened (and closed) by clicking on a view number seen in the MicroStation Window > View menu or from the View Toggle controls in the View Groups Toolbox (in the Bentley workspace, the View Groups Toolbox is docked along the bottom of the program.

Structures shown in the profile are OpenRoads/SUDA elements with Context Menus and editing manipulators.


Note: SUDA Profiles are similar to geometry profiles in that they are a MicroStation Model. To return to a different model, click the Models pull-down in the View Attribute dialog.


Displaying Profile Runs

1. Open the Project Explorer (click File > Project Explorer)

Profiles along a series of structures are called Profile Runs. Profile Runs are created, managed, and displayed from the Project Explorer (File > Project Explorer). SUDA information is displayed under the Utility Model tab.

2. Click the Utility Model tab in the Project Explorer.

a. If the Project Explorer does not have the Utility Model tab available, click Settings > Project Explorer and set the Utility Model to True.

There are three types of Profiles. The Profile Model includes handles and text fields that we can use to change the design. The Analysis Profile shows hydraulic details like the Hydraulic Grade Line. The Engineering Profile is more suitable for plotting.


3. Expand the Profile Runs object.

4. Right-click on the Left_side_to_Outlet Profile Run, and select Open Profile Model.


5. At the “Select or Open View” prompt, click in a view to display the profile run.

This profile model is an OpenRoads profile model, with similar capabilities as any other OpenRoads element.


6. Right-click on the Left_side_to_Outlet Profile Run, and select Open Analysis Profile.

Your network may vary significantly from the screenshot above.

This profile is for Hydraulic Analysis and can provide time-varying results, depending on the Hydraulic program being used.

The toolbar has a number of tools. The left button pull-down contains Chart Settings for display of HGL, EGL, notes, etc.


7. In the Project Explorer, right-click on the Left_side_to_Outlet Profile Run, and select Open Engineering Profile

This profile contains full labeling capability and is appropriate for sheeting.

Your network may vary significantly from the screenshot above.


Exercise 6: Placing Structures

Description

In this exercise we will place some Inlets and some Pipes.

Skills Taught

Place Structures

Review your Results

Create a Profile Run and Create Profiles


Placing Structures

You have the review and edit tools necessary to confirm the accuracy of your input. If you suspect that you have done something incorrectly, or if something “unexpected” occurs during placement, please use the review and editing tools to verify and correct, if needed.

There are dozens of properties that must be correct to accurately model something as complex as, say, on-grade inlet gutter capture. Our walk through here is not comprehensive. A separate Inlet Placement class fully covers precise layout and precise modeling of drainage inlets.

1. Make a 2D view active

2. Zoom in to the outlet at the north of the network and turn on the level named _New Inlet Labels (the 10_PlacingStructures Saved View does this for you). The level contains leaders which point to sump locations of two required catch basins.


3. Click Place Node from the Components task menu.

4. In the Place Node dialog, for Feature Definition

a. select Drainage Nodes > CB#12 (or similar)

b. Set and Lock Vertical Offset to 0.00.


5. Follow the prompts.

a. At the Select Reference Element for Elevation. Reset to Type an Elevation prompt, click on the Terrain boundary.

b. Set Placement Type to Minimum Depth.

c. At the Vertical Offset prompt, click near the end of the #1 leader.

The elevation is read from the Terrain at the location point.

d. Your final datapoint determines the rotation of the inlet. Rotate it however you like.

The command loops, still honoring the Terrain for elevation.


6. To exit the command, select another tool.

7. Click the Element Selection tool and then select the inlet.

8. Review the information in the Tooltip, Element Information, or the Context Menu tools.

9. If you do not like any of the attributes, you can edit it or delete the node and replace it.

10. Repeat the process for the inlet at Leader 2.


Place Pipes

1. Click the Place Conduit Between Nodes tool.


2. Set the Feature Definition to Storm Sewer > Storm Sewer Corrugated HDPE (or other)

3. Set the Description to 18” [450mm].

4. Follow the prompts.


a. At the Select Start Node prompt, select the new inlet (at Leader 1) as the upstream end of the pipe.

The upstream end of the pipe is connected to the inlet, the downstream end of the pipe is at the cursor, and the pipe “rubberbands” between them with live slope and length feedback.

5. At the Select next node to make a connection prompt, select the second inlet.


The diameter of the pipe can be set in the Utility pane in Element Information or via the Utility Properties dialog.


6. Repeat this process to connect the second inlet to the headwall above it.


Creating a Profile Run of Your New Structures

1. In the Project Explorer, click on the Utility Model tab.

2. Right-click on the Profile Runs and click on Create Profile Run

Profile Runs are created by clicking, in sequence, each Conduits or Links to be included in the Profile Run.

3. At the “Select First Link to Add to Profile Run” prompt, click the first pipe you created.

4. At the “Pick Next Link to Add to Profile Path. Reset to Quit Picking.” prompt, click on the second pipe you created.

The next link must be adjacent to the previous link. Otherwise you will get a prompt directing you to select the Next Connected Link or to Quit Picking (by resetting).

5. At the “Pick Next Link to Add to Profile Path. Reset to Quit Picking.” prompt, reset to quit.

6. A new profile run is created. You can right-click and display profiles.


Appendix A: Customizing Labels (Optional)

This section teaches how to supplement Predefined or Shared Symbology Definitions with Custom Labels.

Note: If you have a symbology file, Importing symbology from files is covered at the end of this section.

1. To edit how Labels display, select the Element Symbology tool from the View task menu.

The Element Symbology dialog lists the preset Symbology Definitions at the top and the specifics of what gets displayed in the bottom.


An Element Symbology is an Annotation definition or a Color Coding definition. An Annotation definition is how an attribute is displayed, including its size location and prefixes, suffixes, and units. Color Coding displays elements in different colors, depending on attribute criteria. All the Element Symbologies are available to all Symbology Definitions.

A Symbology Definition simply stores which Element Symbologies are set to ON and which are set to OFF.

The primary tasks in adding new displays are:

a. Define how an attribute is displayed via a new Element Symbology or Color Coding.

b. Toggle the new Annotation ON in any desired Symbology Definitions.


Create a New Annotation

Note that Subsurface Utilities Engineering and Hydraulics Analysis labels are separate data structures, but they are edited and created similarly.

1. Select any Symbology Definition such as Slope Inverts.

2. Right-click on any of the Annotations in the Conduit header in the Element Symbology list. Click Edit.


This opens the Annotation Properties dialog, where attributes can be selected and locations and sizes defined.

3. Click the New button in the upper left corner to add a new attribute label.

4. Select a Field Name, such as Wall Thickness.


Note that the attribute can be selected from the Field Name list or from the > button, which groups the attributes by function.

A Prefix and/or Suffix can be typed. “%u” results in the Unit being labeled (for example, click on the Diameter Label).


The above steps are rather direct. Sizing and Positioning new labels requires some exploration. To properly position a new label, you want it to fit in with currently-defined labels it may be displayed with. In our current example here, there is every expectation that we would want to display the new label with the other labels. We want to make sure the size is appropriate and that the label does not overlap other labels. Current X Offset and Y Offset are shown in the Label list, but Size is not shown unless the Label is clicked.

5. Key in good values for X Offset, Y Offset, and Height Multiplier.

The Label has a Height Multiplier of 1, all the others have a Height Multiplier of 0.8, so we should use 0.8 for the new Material. Six seems to be the current spacing, so a Y Offset of -40 will not overlap.


6. Click OK when finished.

7. The new Annotation shows up in the Element Symbology list. Toggle it on and off. It should be reflected in the design file.

In order for other Symbology Definitions to display the new Annotation, you must select it in the list at the top and then toggle the new Annotation ON.


Appendix B: Importing Symbology from a file

Note that Subsurface Utilities Engineering and Hydraulics Analysis labels are separate data structures, but they are edited and created similarly.

1. In the Subsurface Utilities Task menu, select the Element Symbology tool.

2. Under your intended sub-scope, SUE or Hydraulic Analysis, click the “Browse” ellipses to the right of the Symbology Definitions list

3. In the Symbology Definitions dialog, click the Import Connection tool.

4. Browse to the data folder and open the *.sue.sym file for SUE or *.stsw.sym for Hydraulic Analysis.

If there are any duplicate Element Symbologies, the Import Element Symbology Definition dialog will open.


5. Enable the “Do this for all...” toggle and click Don’t Import the duplicates.

You should now have a variety of Symbology Definitions for use.

Note: that the SUE symbology definition files vary in format from the Hydraulic Analysis files.

quickstart - evaluating and creating subsurface utilities ......selectseries 4 (08.11.09.845) or...

Documents