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Analyze point

It would be extremely useful to have Analyze Point on every tab by default. That tool gets utilized a lot to evaluate all kinds of civil geometry.
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Add ability to draw Ahead/Back Tangent line for full length from PC to PI and from PT to PI

Currently in annotation group, the back/ahead tangent line drawn at the PI only has the option for a fixed length. We would like the ability to draw back and ahead tangents the full length from PC to PI to PC. This could apply to both horizontal a...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Implement a SWITCH/CASE function for item type expressions.

A SWITCH/CASE function would be easier to use than having to nest multiple IF functions.

Restore a tool similar to the removed "Asset Manager"

in the new ORailD / ORD we removed the "Asset Manager" tool; in my opinion this tool is useful for several workflow to assign Item types values from an external souce like Excel and avoid the manual attribution of the Item Values.
5 months ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Will not implement

Add profile annotation location option for annotating conduit description only once

If a conduit is perfectly straight, then it is easy to put the description once in the middle, but if the conduit has any bends then each segment gets annotated. Adding an option for annotation frequency with location controls would fix this.
over 2 years ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Unique Handle ID

Need ability to change Element ID when a corridor that has much referenced to it goes DGN is bad. I want to create a new DGN to replace the bad DGN with a new corridor in it. I want that new corridor to have the same handle ID as the corridor that...
5 months ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add all feature definition types to cross section annotation groups.

Currently, annotation groups are limited to certain feature definition categories. This limits our ability to automatically annotate point features such as signs or geotech borings or drainage/utility nodes. It would be desirable to extract data f...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

One button downgrade and export

While we are in a transition phase between the old v8i to the ORD dgn files, we sometimes receive files in the wrong dgn format. The steps to downgrade to a v8i backwards compatible file involves too many steps and introduces units and coordinate ...
over 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Ability to pick individual point name to put a Point Control on when using Feature Name Override

When applying a point control, users should have the ability to choose the individual point name when there is also a Feature Name Override on the point. As of now only the override name shows up in the point control pick list, and it currently do...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to flip/reverse cross sections around baseline.

Ability to flip/reverse cross sections around baseline. Currently, when you reverse section, it does not hold station 0.
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration