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Improve Geometry Builder interface

Often Surveyors are responsible for generating exi sting alignments from limited data (in plans or collected in field.) We have identified that using the Geometry Builder can be a "wo rkaround" but it is clunky and there are more steps involved th...
over 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Exporting Field Book with Observational Data

I process survey data for the Maine Department of Transportation. We have been transitioning from InRoads to OpenRoads for about a year now and are currently using OpenRoads Designer 2023. Myself and others in the Department are seeing frequent co...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads ConceptStation / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Needs review

Survey Cell Rotation within an sqlite file

If a survey cell is rotated in a dgn file that houses a filedbook and that fieldbook is then exported to an .sqlite file the survey cell does not retain it's rotation.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Enable the “Zoom” feature within the Survey Field Book

Within the Survey Field Book of ORD, the right-click context menu offers a “Zoom” option. This should, I presume, fit all the selected survey features into view. It doesn’t work but would be very useful if it did. (Please see the attached image)
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Survey Point Elevation From Terrain

when creating a new survey point or geometry point, I would like an option to get the elevation of the point XZ from a terrain.
over 2 years ago in Survey 2 Future consideration

Add "Update From Source" to Fieldbooks

Similar to the "Update from Source" available for terrain models, it would be great to be able to right-click on a fieldbook that's being read from an external file and tell it to refresh based on edits made to the external file. Of course, there ...
over 2 years ago in Survey 0 Future consideration

Toggle for auto advancing to the next number in the place point tool.

Our workflow requires a different naming convention for different types of points. (Centerline points are 3000 series, section corners are 8000 series ect..) It would be handy to type the point number in once and then have the place point tool aut...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Insert vertex into a field book line string with an elevation, and/or add a point in the details list and designate as an added model point.

It is necessary to clean up surveyed field book data and crossings or overlap of lines to produce a cleaner smoother terrain model.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Add a position tick mark to the Survey Decorators

Inroads allowed the user to toggle a tick mark, such as a plus symbol (+), to show the position of any survey point in the fieldbook. Very useful. ORD allows the toggling of many different attributes of a point by using Survey Decorators. Please a...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Bulk change Survey Feature

The ability to bulk change survey features of points. This would quick way to change features if features are in one standard to another.
over 2 years ago in Survey 0 Future consideration