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Drawing layout from right to left - plan and profile.

Fundamental convention for technical drawing demands that the north arrow point to the top of the page. Often an alignment either provided by a client or already exiting will progress from right to left. This being said, when creating plan and pro...
about 3 years ago in Drawing Production / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 6 Shipped

Need a Manage Modifications option in Annotation Groups for Points

Currently this option is only available for Linear features. This means any text annotated through Point annotation groups can't be moved or rotated, which is a problem for our Right of Way points. Sometimes we have 100+ Right of Way points that r...
about 3 years ago in Annotation 0 Shipped

Make the Point Analyze Tool usable in Read-Only files

You can't use the Analyze Point tool on read-only files presumably because it is trying to add annotation but sometimes people just want to check measurements such as slope between geometry in a read-only files and this is a very useful tool to do...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 5 Shipped

Show the Link Size within the Link Summary Tab

The window that pops up after a hydraulic model run for design or analysis includes a "Calculation Detailed Summary". The Link Summary tab does not currently show the designed link size. Showing the link size in the Link Summary tab will allow the...

Enhance Annotation Definitions (Add text frame option and associate leader line to text)

Currently when creating/using annotation groups, the annotation definition can place a leader line. But when the annotation is placed the leader line is not associated with the text so if I move the text the leader line does not move with it. Simi...

Need an "Update" tool to update Drainage Catalogs, Prototypes, and Engineering Libraries from another file

We need a better way to update a working DGN with changed or added Drainage content from the DGNLib. It is possible to export and import library XML files, but you'd need to know which libraries have been changed. There's no XML file for prototype...

Allow Sorting of Drainage and Utilities Items in the Project Explorer

Currently, items in the drainage and utilities model in the project explorer appear in the order they were created. However, as element names change, items can be difficult to find especially if there are a lot of elements in the model. It would b...

Add IFC mapping options to elements

The possibility to choose how your objects will be exported to ifc: at the moment everything exports as ifcBuildingElementProxy class, MeshElement type.Example: assign surface templates (pavements) to export as ifcSlab; a retaining wall as ifcWall...

Update Extract from Graphic Order of Settings

In the Extract from Graphic tool, the conduit feature definition needs to be set prior to the node feature definition to pull the appropriate corresponding nodes from the workspace. Could the conduit feature definition settings be listed above the...

Integrate ESRI ArcGIS geodatabase natively

There is a ton of information stored in GIS. Having the ability to natively and easily view Maps/Layers within a DGN File would be hugely beneficial.