Announcements

Change Coming to ODOT's Hybrid-Managed Workspace - Alternative Drive Letters

EAST is excited to announce an opportunity for our consultant partners to optimize their access to ODOT's hybrid-managed (local) workspace by providing an alternative to the C:\ drive for the location of the OregonDOT workspace.

To accommodate other drive letters, when you open a DGN from ODOT's ProjectWise datasource, your CAD software will look for the local copy of the workspace in the following locations:

C:\ODOT\v2024

D:\ODOT\v2024

M:\ODOT\v2024

This change is scheduled to be made on August 11, 2026. Consultants will be notified of full procedures via email.

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Changes Coming to the Location Consultants Download the OregonDOT Workspace From

The download location of the OregonDOT|ODOT Custom Configuration ZIP file is moving away from ODOT's FTP site to the EAST website. This change will be implemented during August and September. Consultants will receive email notification of this change as part of the monthly workspace updates.

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Engineering Tips Webinars

The Engineering Applications Support Team hosts a weekly webinar on Engineering Tips. Topics will include different versions of engineering software and operating systems that ODOT currently uses or will use in the future, as well as design and plans production workflows.

Webinars are considered training and are recorded for later publishing on the EAST - CAD Workflows Video Playlist. Attendees are invited to register for a Professional Development Hour.

We will send out emails with a subject line beginning with Engineering Tips to the Engineering Users MicroStation email distribution list. Please feel free to submit suggestions for topics, too, by emailing odot.east@odot.oregon.gov with a subject line of Engineering Tips Topics.

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2023 City/County PDFs for Vicinity Maps

City and County PDFs for 2023 that contain the layers needed to adjust the project location map are stored in \\gis_resources\6211shar\ Atlas_CAD_2023, for ODOT users only. Copy and paste the URL into File Explorer.

Sub-folders with "Reduced" in the name contain smaller file-size maps with the same content which may be easier to use. The workflow is explained in Title Sheet Creation.pdf.

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Contract Plans Manual

The CAD Manual, the overarching reference document for CAD standards is found on the Drafting and Contract Plans Program web page. Manuals for other disciplines and the Roadway CAD Manual are also available on the same page.

The older Contract Plans Development Guide may be found on ODOT's Engineering website.