Tips & Tricks – Geopak
Geopak is a great program to help with roadway design in civil engineering. Unfortunately sometimes things can get messed up. When working with a design sometimes you will need to rerun the different models several times to get the best solution. However, Geopak sometimes gets confused. When that happens, Geopak can give some unpredictable results. Sometimes it will simply give you the same results over and over no matter how you change the input.
A common thing that causes this is corrupt resource files. So, now anytime Geopak starts doing strange things I delete the resource files. That’s one of the first things Bentley recommends if you call them about Geopak problems.
Here’s how to do it.
First, close MicroStation and Geopak.
Depending on how you have Geopak installed on your system the directory structure may be different. Basically go into your bentley\geopak folder. Inside there you will have a bin folder. Go into the bin folder and delete all of the files with a .rsc extension.
The first time you do it, back up the files before you delete them. Just in case.
Then rerun Geopak and try it again. This has solved a lot of Geopak problems for me.
What other tricks do you use?
Tags: Geopak, Tips & Tricks
September 10th, 2010 at 4:47 am
Worth checking out the new Civil Designer 2011. (www.civildesigner.com) The Roads module can design dual carriageway roads of over 250km in length, also it can design split horizontal and vertical alignments where roads have need to be built through difficult terrain.
June 23rd, 2011 at 2:51 pm
also changed from microstation to civildesigner.cheaper option as well
December 18th, 2011 at 6:03 am
You are right Geopak sometimes gives same result over and over.
December 21st, 2011 at 7:10 am
I used it for a while and i must say it is very good
March 12th, 2012 at 9:33 am
I would love to see some more articles on civil engineering. But didn’t heard of Geopak before. Thanks for the info.