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At Linear Template corner, give option for PI or radius

When creating a liner template in a 90° corner or similar, the software would create an external tanget drop and not a rounded or chamfer one. See image attached, red flags what the result I want.
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 7 Future consideration

Have different icons for each version of a civil product

The current desktop icons are the same color for all versions and is confusing with multiple versions installed. If the icons for each version was a different color for each release it would make for quicker identification of version.

Support spaces for bearing input in geometry tools

The geometry tools should allow for spaces between degrees minutes and seconds (N78 34 22E). This format is supported in the Geometry Builder but not the other geometry tools and the inconsistence is frustrating. Currently you have to enter either...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Search bar for feature definitions

We would like to see a search bar or Filter for Feature Definitions. Our Featue Definitions are numbering in the hundreds if not thousands and as much as we try to organize it in a way that makes sense some are still hard to find.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Overlay and Stripping in Surface Templates / Linear Templates

When will the ability to use Overlay and Stripping in Surface Templates / Linear Templates be available.
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Improve drawing annotation management

Sometimes we apply more than one drawing annotation to the same model. It would be good to have a model manager view with all the applied annotations group so that we can disable, remove or add. That way we could select what we want to remove inst...
7 months ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Create Profile Named Boundary of non-active Verticals

We need a way to manually select the vertical alignment (profile element) when creating Profile named boundaries (instead of assuming we want to use the active vertical). In cases where we have divided roadways that follow a shared centerline but ...
3 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

IFC export using the current active View element symbology

The current IFC exporter only exports using the actual elements symbology and ignores Level Overrides, Reference level symbology changes, etc. This makes it very difficult to control, requiring users to actually physically edit the elements in the...
about 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Introduce the concept of seperate model containers to control data much better

In MX we had the concept of models that allowed users to very quickly and efficiently control feature display, select specific features and perform extensive automation of almost all functions. Without this functionality in ORD, users a either stu...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

Improvement of the "Geometry Connector" to simplify for the user

Suggested improvements: Automatically fill in the correct radius of transition curves/clothoids. Make an option somewhere (civil design file settings?) to select if you want to give transition curve values "by length" or "by constant". If you choo...
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration