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Dimension display for skewed slopes

Would like to be able to have slope dimensions show a suffix of (SK) when showing skewed slopes or be able to define it to display with dual dimensions. The dual dimensions would show the actual plotted skewed slope 5.74:1(SK) and the designed slo...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Include Civil Labels in Pen Table Element Selection Criteria

A client requires background fill in certain annotation notes, which is controlled by a pen table definition. Civil Labels are not included as a selectable Element Selection Criteria Type in the pen table dialog. Text background is insufficient fo...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Text Favorite: add Dynamic N,E,S,W preffix for MH labels

Add ability to have dynamic direction- N,E,S,W preffix in the label for MH labels Text Favorites. In Auto CAD the option is called "pipe direction". Following is the example of output required. (S) INV 99.8m (N) INV 99.7M
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Elevation Mode "3D Element" as an option when placing points

We need to have the ability to place points by snapping to 3D elements (ORD Geometry & Regular Microstation Linework) This is how we give set out points to contractors for grading work. The only way to do this currently, is to choose Elevation...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Create corridor from reference feature

Our current standard workflow for roadway corridor modeling is to create a pavement corridor then a corridor for each end condition Rt and Lt. I have seen many others including some Bentley folks use this method. It would be big time saver to have...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

Adding Japanese Cubic Parabola

OpenRail Designer seems to have Japanese Sine spiral type added from the formula used in Power RailTrack. However, there seems to be nothing similar to Japanese Cubic Parabola, which is based on a different formula from Japanese Sine.
11 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Geometry - Copy Chain Parallel Command

There was a command in Geopak called Copy Chai n Parallel that was very useful in creating offsets of survey chains, and creating new points at constant delta elevations. We are looking for the same function to be added in OpenRoads Designer.
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Already exists

The ability to set a corridor feature definition that automatically increases the template drop interval in sections with curvature and superelevation

As we transition to using the model as a legal document, we are refining the standards we have for template drops to ensure our model provides adequate information to be used directly in construction. Our standards will require a certain interval ...
11 months ago in OpenRoads Designer 1 Needs review

Provide Low Point/High Point Information in Profile Table Editor

Lost functionality that was available in Geopak. Helpful to meet specific locations when designing a profile, instead of storing the profile and reading the profile report, or hand calculation of the low and high points.
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Turn on/off elements in the main dgn will change on all the sheets.

It is expected to turn on and off elements in the container file and it will reflect those changes on all the profile sheet models.
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists