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Deed Boundary Tool Enhancement to Allow User to Establish Civil Rules on Created Shape/Boundary

Please consider adding a toggle to the Deed Boundary tool to create civil rules on the created shape, so this boundary can be a ruled boundary. The goal behind creating this as a ruled boundary is to give the user the option to update the created ...
about 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Allow Cross Section Navigator to work in read-only mode

The XS Navigator tool's full functionality is contingent upon users having file read/write access. This requirement seems excessive for reviewers who primarily need read-only access. I suggest revising the tool to accommodate reviewers with read-o...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Draw Slope Direction Pattern Tool

We would really benefit from having the "Draw Slope Direction Pattern" tool available in OpenRoads Designer CE similar to what was included with InRoads. I understand that we have the capability to apply "side slope annotation" to corridors, but w...
almost 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 6 Future consideration

Text Favorite Use Dimension Style Setting

When a Text Favorite is set to "Active Settings" it looks at the file setting and is not reading active dimension style setting from the element template or the tool settings. According to MicroStation the Active Setting is set by the dimension st...

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...
2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Stacked Cross Section easier workflow

Create a better workflow for stacked cross sections. No need for complex seeds and dgnlibs. Just choose if we want to stack everything in a drawing model or in a sheet, how many rows and columns and hit enter.Maybe define the offsets and get a pre...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Compound Curve with Spiral Segments Tool

A geometry tool is needed to easily create a Compound Horizontal Curve with Spiral segments. Having the ability to quickly compute a Spiral-Curve-Spiral-Curve-Spiral between two tangents would be greatly beneficial to the track design work we do. ...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Command to locate the midpoint between 2 points ala MTP or M2P in C3D

A command where, once activated, would prompt the user to select the first point, then the second point, and then the user's cursor would snap to a location located exactly in between the two points. This could be done without drawing any unnecess...
24 days ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Split Drainage Node Baseline Reference into Station Reference and Offset Reference

Drainage nodes currently utilize an Elevation Reference and a Baseline Reference. It would be better to split the Baseline Reference into two separate references, 1) "Station Reference", and 2) "Offset Reference". In practice, this would allow a n...
24 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Already exists

Improve "Create Terrain from Design Meshes" & "Graphical Filter" tool. Filter by Fence / Shape / Reference Clip / Level Display / Selection Set

When I first saw this tool I was so excited. I could drape the design meshes from top or bottom and create a terrain . Then I started using it and realize the tool may need some improvement because it processes everything in the file or reference ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration