Civil XLR8 is back!
after an almost twenty year magical mystery tour, including stops at
- CalTrans District 11 (18-months embedded on-site designing roads, ramps, and drainage)
- Bentley (13+ years developing Bentley Civil Training, designing the training portfolio, and a stint as Civil Training Content Development Manager)
- Parsons (three words: Multidisciplinary ProjectWise-based MegaProjects!)
- City of San Diego
Civil XLr8 is my primary focus again. OpenRoads Designer is the ecosystem this time.
The Mission from all those years ago is the same:
| Good | Accelerate | increase your speed | |
| Better | Excel-erate | increase your Excellence (speed without quality just increases risk) | |
| Best | XLr8 | MAXIMIZE your Efficiency and Excellence |
Civil XLr8 is dedicated to Maximizing the Efficiency and Excellence of the Civil Engineering Office.
We offer these Services
- Consulting
- Training
- Custom Training Development
- Implementation Planning and Execution
- OpenRoads Workspace Development and Administration
- Risk Awareness and Mitigation
- Website Development / Internal Support Hubs
Why we're back:
The biggest impediment to success in OpenRoads is its complexity. A BIM/Digital Twin platform - with Design Intent (memory) - is dramatically more complex than a program design to merely produce plans. The Vendor Support/Training system did not improve to match the complexity. The gap is huge.
Recent trends and a change in the support platform has hobbled self-support. Hopefully, the valuable legacy content will again become available.
Extraordinary Complexity Requires Extraordinary Support.
Unfortunately, the burden of mitigating this everpresenting risk falls on the users and the accounts. The independent support community is awash in work now, but the burden is extensive.
Those of you who own licenses, please express your concern to Bentley. The software is solid, it's extensible - it's pretty awesome. But it's in everybody's interest to minimize user frustration (and general risk) by committing conmesurate resources to ensure the satisfaction of the Bentley Civil user community.
Related Links - Relevant Content:
JeffMartinPE.com - new relevant content, plus a lot of history
CivilHelp.com - OpenRoads and other topic information (and training) - I maintained this site while Civil XLr8 was dormant.
the legacy Civil XLr8 (from the early 2000s) is available at http://legacy.CivilXLr8.com