OpenTunnel Designer
Tunnel design software
Data integration
Improve your decisions by being able to combine, organize, and manage geotechnical and existing conditions data quickly and accurately. With OpenTunnel Designer you can work with soil strata and linear infrastructure data, as well as, reference road and rail corridors, and bridge structures.
Model, simulate, and detail
Model the full excavation shape, excavation tracks, and the tunnel lining and reinforcement. Native modeling tools help you save design time, by making automatic updates as a result of any change made to the tunnel template or alignment geometry. Model and detail the rebar reinforcement and reference your OpenTunnel tunnel lining model in ProConcrete.
Produce drawings and reports
Streamline how you create plan, profiles, and cross-section drawings with drawing production tools. Reports help keep your project on track with up-to-date costing and quantities.
“With OpenTunnel, the design can be made directly by the drafter, and the engineer can concentrate on the calculations in PLAXIS and the design of the work. It is a way to save time and optimize everyones work.”
“Compared to other BIM tools and applications in the as-built generation and maintenance interventions of a standard application, we can estimate 50% time saving to build the same model. In the case of long and complex tunnels, time-saving could be even larger.”
“OpenTunnel is a powerful tool for designing tunnels and all associated structures. The automatic implementation of the reinforcement is also an indispensable tool that we use very regularly, which allows to save a lot of time and to test several solutions.”
Technical Capabilities
Ease of Use
- Intelligent graphical user interface
- U.S. imperial and metric (SI) units
- Comprehensive 3D physical tunnel modeling
- User customizable libraries
- Intuitive dialogue driven workflows
Modeling and Visualization
- Conventional and mechanized tunnel types
- Full excavation shape, excavation tracks modeling
- Tunnel lining modeling
- Tunnel reinforcement
- Interior objects as extrusion or cells
- Parametric, intelligent tunnel components
- Intuitive, dialogue-driven workflows
- Rule-based and constraint-driven modeling
- Clash detection
- Solid and transparent views
- Lifelike rendering by loading the tunnel model in LumenRT
- Reference bridge, roadway, railway information and ground data
Reporting
- Customized and dynamic reports
- Material quantities report
- Input reports
- Cost estimate report
- Formats: PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, HTML
Integration with other software
- Direct data exchange with MicroStation, OpenRoads, OpenRail, OpenBridge, ProStructures and PLAXIS
- Import geomodeling data from Leapfrog
- File formats: DGN, XML, LandXML, IFC and PY
Automation saves time
Automated Drawing Generation
- Plan, profile and cross section drawings
Automated Analytical Model Creation
- Send soil layers geometry with analytical properties to PLAXIS
- Send tunnel and reinforcement geometry with analytical properties to PLAXIS
- Full 4D analysis in PLAXIS 2D/3D
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