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November 2000
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GEOPAK Releases GEOPAK 2000 Product Line
GEOPAK Corporation, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate, unveiled the new GEOPAK 2000 software release. This release brings a host of important technology advances, including the extension of the powerful capabilities of GEOPAK's unique Criteria functionality - a ``designer's parametric language'' that provides greater design flexibility than the template approach required by other civil engineering software.
``GEOPAK users enjoy a definitive competitive advantage using Criteria to automate design and ensure conformance to engineering standards,'' says Dean Bowman, Senior Vice President of product development for GEOPAK. ``In GEOPAK 2000, we extend the power of Criteria to new contexts - plan and profile representation, automated quantities, intersection layout and even intelligent 3D modeling.''
GEOPAK Criteria functionality analyzes existing conditions and uses the information to make intelligent design decisions. It can draw complex roadways and adjoining structures automatically, greatly improving productivity and accuracy of design.
``We have been impressed with GEOPAK since we implemented it five years ago and its Criteria capability has been a powerful way to automate plan production,'' says beta tester Steve Meyer, Information Technology Specialist 4 in Iowa DOT's Highway Division. ``The new 3-Port Criteria in GEOPAK 2000 is even more dynamic and will enable us to easily produce preliminary plans for numerous proposed alignments, thus letting us choose the best alignment earlier in our design process.''
GEOPAK 2000 strengthens the software line's renowned integration capabilities, further enabling its comprehensive field-to-field approach to civil design and engineering, without requiring expensive and unwieldy add-ons.
``We try to use everything GEOPAK offers because it allows us to use the same platform for a wide variety of projects, which improves efficiency in our office,'' says Corey Johnson, of WHKS & Co. in Ames, Iowa. ``I feel that GEOPAK is simply better than other civil software and easy to use.''
The release further enriches capabilities for leveraging design information in construction and adds a new set of geotechnical tools. GEOPAK 2000 brings major uplifts to the product line, especially in plan production, graphical COGO (coordinate geometry) and superelevation functionality.
``The new superelevation tools in GEOPAK 2000 make it much easier for a user to design, analyze and modify superelevation transitions,'' says beta tester Eric Thomas, Transportation Technician 3 at the Ohio Department of Transportation. ``The new superelevation tools will have the ability to accommodate all of our current superelevation transition calculation methods.''
For information visitwww.bentley.com and www.geopak.com
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