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GEOPAK Releases GEOPAK 2000 Product Line; Leading
Civil Design/Engineering Software Brings Major Advancements
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Nov. 9, 2000--GEOPAK Corporation, a
Bentley Strategic Affiliate, today 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."
GEOPAK 2000 Enhancements Detailed
Offering unmatched flexibility in exporting design data directly to popular data collectors, GEOPAK
2000 enables engineering departments to provide critical horizontal, vertical and cross section
information to construction.
Improving the market's fastest digital terrain modeling (DTM) software, GEOPAK 2000 adds
numerous new tools to GEOPAK DTM, including a unique Visibility tool that lets users visualize the
line of sight in all directions from any given point in the model.
GEOPAK 2000 delivers the latest in graphical COGO, utilizing easy point-and-click operation.
Component-based COGO capabilities enhance subdivision design right-of-way taking and easements,
survey and GIS cleanup and street intersection design.
New Geotechnical capabilities offer subsurface representation in plan, profile and cross section
views. The software uses borehole data to interpolate triangulated (TIN) models of subsurface
materials.
Further enhancing GEOPAK's component-based capabilities for transportation design, the new
release supports a wealth of transportation standards, such as curve and spiral tables, when generating
horizontal and vertical alignments.
In addition, GEOPAK 2000 now interfaces directly to Trimble Navigation's SiteVision(TM)
software so that users can guide earth-moving equipment using DTM and global positioning system
(GPS) technology.
Information about Trimble's SiteVision software can be found at www.trimble.com.
More on Bentley
At approximately $190 million in 1999 revenues, Bentley is the largest software company dedicated
to engineering and operation of constructed assets, the category traditionally known as A/E/C (for
architecture, engineering, and construction) and is one of the largest privately held software companies
in the world. For more information on Bentley, please contact the company at 1-800-BENTLEY,
610/458-5000 (Americas), +31 23-556-0560 (Europe, Middle East, Africa), +61 3-9699-8699
(Asia/Pacific), through E-mail at Rachael.Schroeder@Bentley.com or visit www.bentley.com.
About GEOPAK, a Bentley Strategic Affiliate
GEOPAK provides civil engineering software and advanced traffic management systems for
transportation projects worldwide. GEOPAK is a market-leading provider of roadway engineering and
design software. Together, Bentley and GEOPAK offer GeoMacao(TM) civil software to European
markets. More than any other civil engineering software, GEOPAK is developed and supported by
practicing civil engineers and land surveyors. The Federal Highway Administration, 19 state
departments of transportation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and thousands of consultants
worldwide use GEOPAK civil engineering solutions. A-E-C Automation Newsletter, the authoritative
publication on automation for architecture, engineering and construction, considers GEOPAK "the
leader in the transportation engineering market."
The company is headquartered in North Miami Beach, Florida, USA. GEOPAK can be reached:
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By telephone at 305/944-5151 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada: 888-GEOPAK1)
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By FAX at 305/948-6290
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By email at sales@geopak.com
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On the World Wide Web at www.geopak.com.
GEOPAK is a registered trademark and GeoMacao is a trademark of GEOPAK Corporation.
Bentley and MicroStation are registered trademarks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or Bentley
Software, Inc. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT:
Cissell Consulting
Jackie Cissell, 256/536-2822
jackie.cissell@geopak.com
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