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Ability to make Geometry Profile models indexed DGN models for ease of use & design workflows

Similar to all the other models, we regularly want to go in and out of Alignment Profile models and the current methods of having to navigate to the geometry to access it is very disruptive and inefficient. Also, having these as hidden models limi...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

When creating a new point in a Survey field book using the “New Point” command, allow an option to hand-enter the coordinates.

When using the “New Point” command for a survey point, the user must screen-pick the coordinates. There are times when it would be extremely useful to hand-enter the Northing, Easting, Elevation.
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - option to place DUConduit annotation at endpoints only

Idea: ability to select the End point of linear features while setting the Civil Labeler placement. This functionality would help users to place annotation of DU links at end point only. This type of feature is useful to annotate the Drop Depth va...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Swept path tool - meshes and features for front, mid and rear positions of the vehicle for calculation step gapss

To design platform coping strings and walkway edge strings in tunnels To calculate step gaps between the vehicle step edge and walkway / platform edge For trucks, cars, and trains.
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Calculate the area of survey chains if they are enclosed shapes

Survey chains (when enclosed) have a reported area value of zero. This is seen in the properties for the geometry, and also if you try to read the area through an item type using the expression This.GetElement().EnclosedArea. Our construction staf...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Cross Section Navigator - Default Beginning Station

A user has expressed the desire for the cross-section navigator to default to the beginning station of the associated alignment. Currently, ORD appears to remember the last station that was given focus or where cross-section navigator tools were u...
about 2 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to use Measure Area: Flood tool in cross section drawing models.

The measure Area Flood tool does not work in cross section drawing models. Currently there is no way to calculate the area of individual shapes. This means if there is anything unique on a cross section, we can’t measure it easily. And no one can ...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

Add option to save result as a "Report" when performing a Terrain to Terrain (or pane) Volume analysis.

Currently when performing a Terrain to Terrain (or pane) Volume Analysis, the only option for saving the result is to save it as a text string and place in a .dgn. It would be very helpful if there was an option so save this result as a report (id...
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Survey Field Book Enhancement

Users would like the ability to create multiple field books without the terrain connecting to each. This would be necessary when surveying multiple sites for one given road project. Currently, this is done by importing the data and then going to t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

We need a SINGLE LIST of configuration variables that can be filtered by ALL products and generation

It would be nice if there was a single list of configuration variables so that we don't have to hunt in different product Help documents (microstation vs openroads) to find details of how they are used. Furthermore there seems to be a lot of confi...
over 2 years ago in Help and Documentation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 1 Future consideration