Bentley Sources
- Learning.Bentley.com - Note: the old site is Learn.Bentley.com.
- Bentley YouTube Channel: Bentley OpenRoads
- Bentley YouTube Channel: CivilTSG
- On24.com - Bentley hosts their webcasts here (mostly "Coffee Corners". Finding things is based on doing a browser find and hoping the word is in the title.
Where do I start?
Getting Started: Where do I Start?
- I am brand new to Bentley. I will be working in OpenRoads. Should I start with MicroStation? No. Start Here
- I'm learning on my own. Is there an easy place to start? Baby steps, success guaranteed? Yes: OpenRoads Review and Evaluation
- Wait: I'm not a roadway engineer; I just need to review the data. What do you recommend? OpenRoads Review and Evaluation
- I want to make sure that I'm ready for the OnDemand training (most of them start "at a run" instead of a walk): Start Here
What do you want to learn? What is your role?
Bentley "Learn Plan" for Roadway Designers
00 - Roadway Design Modeling - Fundamentals learning plan - a series of introductory classes designed for highway designers. Includes Terrain Display, Horizontal And Vertical Centerline Geometry, Smart Pavement Edges, Earthwork and Sheeting
Survey
Learning.Bentley.com Survey Training: OpenRoads Designer - Survey - Learning Plan
Terrain
04 - Terrain Modeling: learning plan that includes Terrain Display and "Using and Editing Terrain Models" (which includes how to merge terrains (Creating Complex Terrains))
Geometry - Roadway
05 - Geometry learning plan includes the Creating and Editing Centerline Geometry course, which extends beyond the capabilities shown in the OpenRoads Geometry course. In particular, major editing capabilities are shown for when you have vertical geometry already defined but need to make horizontal changes.
Right of Way Fundamentals - a learning plan that details and showcases the Geometry Builder tool.
Note in OpenRoads 2024, there is a Deed Writer.
Geometry - Subdivision, Site
Beyond Centerline Geometry course is where you learn to create "smart" pavement edges and driveways. Very useful for site layout.
Cross Sectional Geometry
Cross Sectional Geometry = Templates. Template courses are in the OpenRoads Designer - Corridors learning plan. If you know templates from old InRoads or GEOPAK: Good News! The technology is identical (plus some Superelevaton Flags).
Corridors
OpenRoads Designer - Corridors. Includes how to create and manipulate corridors, how to create templates, as well as some cool Modeling Techniques (Ramps and Gores, Retaining Walls, etc.).
Site and Grading Tools
The Site and Grading tools in OpenRoads are the SAME technology used in roadway vertical design.
Because it's the same technology, most of the OpenRoads Training is perfectly applicable for "OpenSite Designer users".
Site and Drainage Grading Overview - this local material introduces the two main tools you can use to master site and drainage grading.
The Bentley Site Design and Modeling - Fundamentals Learning Plan is the equivalent of the OpenRoads Fundamentals learning path: terrain, geometry, sheets - corridors are excluded.
If you're already familiar with OpenRoads geometry and terrains, this Bentley course covers the essence of site layout: Site Modeling and Non-Corridor Modeling.
Grading: Draping Surfaces for Drainage - this local hands-on training was part of the original Bentley version of that course but it was dropped in a revision of the course. It's good to take the Non-Corridor course prior to this one, though not necessary.
Site Layout
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Disambiguation: OpenSite Designer is a massive, monster application that does everything that OpenRoads Designer does, except Corridors. SiteOps is a Site Layout and Grading Automation Program. Its technology is being ported to and enhanced in OpenSite Designer (and OpenRoads and OpenRail). Personal Recommendation: the SiteOps/Site Layout technology is excellent for balancing earthwork and doing really quick spec-based layout. Many experts with the SiteOps tech can bring the model fully to plansets. The SiteOps tech is a different rules system than the OpenRoads platform. These Site Layout tools automate a big portion of layout and grading, but fine detailing control is still in the province of the "traditional" Civil Geometry tools (described herein). Learn the "normal" OpenRoads vertical geometry and grading tools first. The Introduction to OpenSite Designer learning plan contains the Site Layout-specific workflows: Commercial Site Layout and Residential Site Layout. The OpenSite Special Interest Group is a list of demonstration video on the Site Layout tools. |
Sheets
08 - Drawing Production learning plan
YouTube Playlist: OpenRoads best practices for plan sheet creation
Note: do NOT take the MicroStation-based Sheet Creation and Annotation Courses if you are running OpenRoads. If you do take MicroStation-based courses, do so AFTER learning how OpenRoads does things. OpenRoads extends the base MicroStation in a way far more appropriate for Civil work.
Drainage and Utilities
(formerly SU, formerly SUDA) Most of the available training for Drainage and Utilities are in these learning plans.
Digital Twins - it's the future
Digital Twins (local links)
Reality Modeling
This used to be "surveying," but it's much more than that now.
3D Mapping - OrbitGT
ContextCapture
DIY: Reality Modeling (local link)
Learning.Bentley.com ContextCapture Training: Reality Modeling