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dynamic wireframe modeling

For modeling corners that is harder to do with templates, similar to Civil 3d, the ability to quickly manipulate elevation points and slopes on a 3d wireframe design would make designing curb ramps so much easier.
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Create 3D points from rails when creating regression line from rails

Currently, when one uses the create regression line from rails tool, the points that the program creates are 2D, in other words they contain only X and Y, not Z. It would be nice to create points along with the regression line that contains also i...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Dynamic Cross Section View - Retain User Settings

Users often make changes to the different fit options in the Dynamic XS view that are not persisted when the file is closed or a section via datapoint is issued (Fit Section / Center Backbone / Center on Current Offsets). It defaults back to the F...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Flood Volumes - Surface analysis between three surfaces

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify surface math logic - Above Existing, Below Proposed, and Below "Floodplain" (variable plane) to get good floodplain volumes.
over 1 year ago in Analytics / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Selection of named boundary with different associations

TxDOT likes to see driveway P&P’s side by side on a single sheet (see attached example), and when the workspace didn’t have a sheet seed that accommodated this type of configuration we created one ourselves. The main issue is placing both driv...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Best Match Field Code Option

In ORD 10.11 and beyond the Best Match Field Code Option is now a drop-down of the following: Match exact: Feature Must equal an Alpha Code, only exact matches. For example if there is a Feature Definition with Alpha Code set to AP (Asphalt Paveme...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Target Alias Sort by Name

Suggesting to sort the Target Alias list by name and increase the width so long concatenated names can be fully read.
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Bring back "Create Geometry by Template" command

In the first versions of OpenRoads we had the tool "Create Geometry by Template" which would create ruled geometry from a template . Fast way to for lay out geometry for a project. Not sure why it went away.
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Being able to add/remove references that are stored inside cross sectional saved view

Rather than creating a new cross sectional named boundary, it would be convenient for the saved views to synchronize with 3D reference window and level display. There could even be a feature to toggle this feature on and off for a saved view.
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration