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Insert Vertex tool

Tool that adds vertex at chosen interval to a selected element segments. The "facet" tool is supposed to achieve this, but it is not designed to respect original element vertexes. So it ends up modifing the element path. The tool should work insid...
6 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

START and END annotation for vertical alignment

I want to have the ability to annotate the Start/End of the Vertical Alignment (There is the ability to annotate the Start/End of a Line and the Start/Endof the Horizontal Alignment). There are many ways to annotate the start and end stations, how...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Make the Drainage Catch Basin Grate Perimeter and Open Area variables reportable

Some DOTs require input of an exact values for catch basin grate open area for orifice flow and catch basin grate perimeter for weir flow. ORD would consider these as calculated values, not inputs. These are not ORD outputs and are hidden from the...
2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Esri Shapefile Field Name to be longer than 10 characters

When exporting a drainage flex table in ESRI format, the default field names include names longer than 10 characters. This throws the error message: "The Esri Shapefile field name <Middle_Flow> for column <Flow (Middle)> cannot be long...
2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Improve Civil Analysis to another alignment

Wasn't sure whether to post this to technical support as a bug or here. This is a tiny concern in the greater scheme of things but a frustration nonetheless. Suppose you use civil analysis tool to track a horizontal alignment with an active vertic...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add temp dimensions for offsets and elevations to the Dynamic Cross Sections

Add temp dimensions for offsets and elevations to the Dynamic Cross Sections
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to export an ORD surface to a HEC-RAS .tif surface.

In OpenRoads Designer 2023, under the Terrain tab, add the ability to export a ORD surface to a .tif file. The HEC-RAS RAS-Mapper can only use .tif surfaces.
about 1 month ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add a right click option in the Feature Definition dialogue for "Set Active"

When navigating through all the feature definitions it would be handy to have an option to set the feature to the active definition being used. It's easier many times to navigate through the OpenRoads Standards list to find features than using the...
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Better Elevation Thematic Tool for terrains.

It's very hard and troublesome to create elevation countours for cut and fill or layer thickness. The legends values have to be updated by hand for each new terrain. And in the end, it`s actually just a Display Style applied to the terrain or the ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Profile projection tools for crossfall relative to Target element

In legacy software, we had the option to either project crossfall from one element to another relative/normal to the reference element or relative/normal to the target element. We do not seem to have this functionality in ORD currently (although t...
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration