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Connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet

It would be great if ORD had the capability to connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet to be able to calculate spread and bypass at the inlet. Currently the workaround is to connect the channel to a Generic Outfall at the edge of the inlet...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Deed Writer should be able to handle calculated inserts in the phrase option inserts.

This would allow for the phrase option inserts to use calculated values. Currently some phrases that we want to create as a phrase option have calculated values, but some do not.
11 months ago in All Other / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Standard Report Formatting

We use reports generated in the Civil Reports Browser to export reports that go to contractors in the field. We often run into issues with the formatting of the report not being set correctly. This problem is compounded by the fact that formatting...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Ruled Copy Enhancement to Complex By Element Tool

There is currently not a way to create a ruled copy of an element when using the Complex By Element tool. Being able to create a ruled copy of a range of segments and curves into a complex element with a different feature definition would be a hel...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Deed Writer Tool Enhancement to Allow for Phrase Inserts in Specific Cursor Location to Create Nested Phrases

Please consider adding the ability for a user to insert a phrase within a phrase in the Right of Way Deed dialog box when using the Deed Writer tool based on the cursor location in the white text deed description box. This capability would give th...
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Want a warning when detach a reference file used by civil labeler with element association

When a corridor is based on an alignment from a reference file we get a warning when we try to detach the alignment reference file to minimize the chance of breaking the connection between the corridor and it's source alignment. Can we similarly g...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Visible final contour labels in corridor

After the corridor is created, it is possible to see the final contours. However, the contour elevation labels are not shown unless a proposed surface is created. Why is that so? I believe it would be beneficial to toggle on/off contour elevation ...
5 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Superelevation Reassign

Similar to the ability we have to redefine geometry and reassign corridors (like Complex Redefine or Corridor Reattach), a Superelevation Reassign tool would be very useful. For example, if we are evaluating 2 different alignments/profiles and wou...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 1 Future consideration

Make Plan by 3D Element tool create Geometry with "Active Profile" to be usable

Unlike the OpenRoads v8i functionality for this tool, Plan by 3D Element does not create Geometry that has an Active Profile and therefore can't be used for the majority of functions users want by default, namely Point Controls (in ORD and OBM Dec...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / Modeling / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Additional command/tool in Openroads for deleting segments/s in horizontal alignment with profile

This will be helpful especially when the certain alignments are very long, and you only need to trim segments. Currently, the viable workaround is to copy that alignment and use either Project Profile to Element tool to join the vertical alignment...
about 1 month ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration