Next-Generation GEOPAK 97 Released for Civil Project Design and Engineering.NORTH MIAMI BEACH North Miami Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 35,359), Dade co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1931. It is a major office and retail area. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 1997-- Includes New Civil Engineering Suite, GEOPAK Drainage and GEOPAK Bridge Products and Upgrade Enhancements to Entire Line GEOPAK Corporation, the leading provider of roadway design and engineering software, today announced the release of the GEOPAK(R) 97 software line supporting and enhancing MicroStation 95 by Bentley. With the new 97 release, GEOPAK introduces enhanced features for its current products, the new GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite, and two new Bridge and Drainage products that greatly expand the GEOPAK offering. The GEOPAK 97 product line addresses every phase of the civil engineering workflow including conceptual studies, preliminary design and engineering, final design, production drawings, and construction management. "These newly upgraded GEOPAK 97 products set the standard for ease of use," says Dean Bowman, vice president and director of product development at GEOPAK. "The unmatched power and flexibility for which GEOPAK has become known is now encapsulated encapsulated Localized Oncology adjective Confined to a specific area, surrounded by a thin layer of fibrous tissue; encapsulation generally refers to a tumor confined to a specific area, surrounded by a capsule. See Islet encapsulation. into diagrams that reduce the most complex projects down to a step-by-step workflow." GEOPAK 97 upgrades include a streamlined set of icons, similar to the MicroStation 95 tool palettes A collection of buttons (icons) grouped on screen that provide a quick way to select available functions by pointing and clicking. Tool palettes were originally used with graphics applications such as paint, drawing and image editing programs. , which are organized in logical, more intuitive hierarchies. On-line help with hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links further aid the user, as does an interface that takes advantage of Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. standards for better integration between engineering and everyday business computing. New Civil Engineering Suite for Transportation Projects With the introduction of GEOPAK 97, the product previously known as GEOPAK Road has been renamed and repackaged as the new GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite. The Suite includes updates to Survey Manager, Road, and Site, as well as brand new Bridge and Drainage software modules, rounding out a comprehensive site and transportation application. GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite includes features for complete design of roads, bridges, multi-level overpasses, rail corridors, transfer facility yards, airport runways, and more. It supports true inter-discipline team design and ensures consistent standards. Further advancements to the Suite include a Project Manager that provides easy control over file organization and project settings, and a 3-Port Viewer for real-time viewing in plan, profile, and cross section modes for fast, interactive decision making. Rounding Out the GEOPAK line: GeoTerrain, CivilDraft, and Rebar The GEOPAK 97 product line offers numerous discipline-specific civil software products that allow users to build a custom environment fitting unique design requirements. Products available separately from the Civil Engineering Suite are: -- GEOPAK Rebar, a comprehensive package that transforms MicroStation into a powerful detailing and scheduling system for reinforced concrete reinforced concrete Concrete in which steel is embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces. The reinforcing steel—rods, bars, or mesh—absorbs the tensile, shear, and sometimes the compressive stresses in a concrete structures; -- GEOPAK Survey, for two-way transfer of survey data for virtually all data formats and data collectors; -- GEOPAK Bridge, for 3D bridge modeling, handling complex geometry In mathematics, complex geometry is the study of complex manifolds and functions of many complex variables. , deck elevations, and quantities, and placement of slabs, beams, and piers; and -- GEOPAK Site, to design parking facilities, subdivisions, environmental, solid waste facilities, and dams. A Bentley Strategic Affiliate, GEOPAK also develops two products available through the Bentley reseller channel: GeoTerrain, for digital terrain modeling, anrafting. GEOPAK was recently chosen by Ohio DOT as the standard software platform. Favored by many ctware is now in use in 42 of the 50 state Depabeen providing civil engineering software to the market since 1984. More than any other product on the maay design and engineering software and the fastest growing civil engineering software provider, with revenue -- by telephone at 888-GEOPAK1 (888-aft and GeoTerrain are trademarks of GEOPAK Corporation. MicroStation is a registered trademark and Bentley is a trademark of Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Incorporated. Other b CONTACT: Cissell ConRODUCT URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.geopak.com REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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