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Contact (3rd) Rail tools

It would be great to have a set of tools to model a contact (third) rail - this is used by many transit systems as a traction power source for trains. There are enough nuances to the design of this rail that it warrants a dedicated tool with the a...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

SET SORT ON ANNOTION GROUP

SET SORT ON ANNOTION GROUP. SOME ONE DID NOT PROGRAM RIGHT. SORT IS IN EVERYTHING ELSE.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Don't process corridor for change of disabled Point Control or Parametric Constraint

Not sure why it does this, but it doesnt make sense that the software processes when these are changed although they are disabled. To aid in productivity, especially for large corridors, the corridor should check if the Point Control / Parametric ...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

Update the Check Integrity Reports to include both the Start and END stations of the elements.

The current report has the Start station, but it would be nice to have the Ending station of the individual elements included as well.
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Add elevation ranges when measuring volume between terrains.

In Geopak, there was a tool under DTM Tools > Analysis > Volumes, where you could specify elevation ranges to calculate the volumes, while also taking into account the volumes between two TINs. You were able to specify multiple contour inter...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 1 Future consideration

Allow Terrain Filter by Civil Element Name

Terrain filters have the ability to use the Feature Definition, but a lot of the time we have elements that we do not want all elements of a feature definition to be captured by the terrain filter. Our current workaround is to have multiple versio...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Ability to superscript and underline the decimal digits for spot elevation annotation

Currently it is not possible to format only the decimal digits of the annotation. The user wants to annotate the spot elevation in a custom format where the decimal units are having superscript and the underline. The option from DIN Dimensioning o...
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to turn on and off geometry and switches by track

Currently OpenRail Designer allows to turn on and off geometry according to FD. However, there are cases where it is more useful to turn on and off tracks by track name, rather by FD. This could help the process of creating drawings faster. Simila...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to use Cross Section Named Boundaries across references

We would like to be able to create cross section sheets by referencing previously created boundaries in a similar manner to how we currently are able to use Plan and Profile Named Boundaries across references.
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Ability to reference in Navisworks model files

Currently our only option is to bring in Navisworks Simulate models is find the .DWGs that possibly populate it and bring each one in individually. The individual reference option misses out on any files from other software (such as smartplant) su...
over 2 years ago in All Other / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration