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Utility Overhead Conduits/Nodes

Current Limitations Currently, creating overhead conductors between two "Overhead Nodes" (e.g., utility poles) results in a straight-line conduit. In reality, these lines always exhibit a natural sag due to gravity and tension forces. To model sag...
24 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration
119 VOTE

Separate vertical alignment model from horizonal geometry

One of my biggest pain points about ORD is if the horizontal geometry is dropped or broken, the vertical is consequently lost as well. This creates significant rework from a design and plan production standpoint (connected named boundaries). One w...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration
105 VOTE

Ability to Update Annotation Groups

Currently for drawing model annotation groups, if the user wants to update the annotation, they would need to remove the outdated annotation group, which would removal all annotation groups, and then reapply all annotation groups. It would be nice...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Sheet presentation of Drainage and Utilities nodes in plan view with annotation cells

When we initially stood up Storm and Sanitary, we had the center point presentation in plan view display a representative cell. I propose that we allow the placement through an element template of an annotative cell at the center of nodes to repre...
8 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Needs review

Create Turnout Profile

Currently, the workflow to achieve this is in general case (including canted track) where profile = lower rail elevation is : Create lower rail of branch line: horizontal offset create rails on main: create rails command Extend slope defined by ma...
9 days ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Existing cant annotation on profile OR any regression point information on profile

Existing cant annotation is often, if not always, required on profile drawing. Actually we must project rails onto the profile, create aliases, to extract level differences between existing rails whereas the information is fully available from reg...
9 days ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Needs review

Create Existing CL from Rails or from regression line

Existing Center Line is critical information. We must be able to create such a line in an easy way without having to apply workaround, 3/4 steps workflow or MDL.It means H+V+existing cantIn the past we had a single box to check to create this exis...
9 days ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Needs review

Update the Minnesota M1-6M, M1-6a and M1-X4 county shields for 3-digits

MnDOT wants to start using wider 3-digit sizes (22.5"x18", 30"x24" & 45"x36") for some of the county shields within the Minnesota standard in OpenRoads SignCAD. The wider 3-digit sizes are needed for the M1-6M and M1-6a blue pentagon county sh...
16 days ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / Workspace 0 Planned

Compare real data from a tunnel with its theoretical corridor

Hello. We're building a tunnel and need OpenTunnel to be able to compare the actual data from the constructed tunnel (recorded via scanning) with the theoretical data from the designed tunnel corridor. There are other programs that do this: Istram...
17 days ago in OpenTunnel Designer 0 Needs review
129 VOTE

Reassign/Reattach Civil Labels

It would be nice to have the ability to reattach civil labels to a new element or terrain. A good example is for jointing/geometric sheets with a lot of spot elevations. Fairly often a new terrain is created and the spots break and need to be repl...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 10 Future consideration