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Inconsistent terrain labeling

I am having an issue where symbology overrides and annotation scale is not impacting my sheet file (default, drawing and sheet models) the way it should. It seems to be emulating the situation described by the user who posted to Bentley Communitie...
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Already exists

Change Text Favorite element attachment/selections

When using text favorites that are based on an alignment (station/offset), these text favorites can break if the alignment changes or is dropped or it can't find it. As far as I know, when this happens, there is no way to reassign the text favorit...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Project Geometry Using Active Feature Definition

When projecting various 2d geometry or 3d linear geometry the user is first required to set the active feature definition in the feature definition toolbar so that the project geometry shows up on the correct level, ect. It would speed things up i...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Flexibility when using a workset template to create a new workset

A lot of the DOTs have workset templates that come with their workspaces. You do not currently have the ability to manually choose where to save your files when you use a workset template to create a new workset. All of that gets grayed out and ev...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

use of activate and exchange

We are finding that our default model of a sheeted file is being clipped to what appears to be a named boundary. We have figured out that it happens upon usage of the Exchange and Activate commands to move to another model or file. We have asked o...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Tool to convert Parametric Cell to a 2D Civil Cell

Civil Cells are often difficult to create due to it's use of parent-child relationships. I find it easier to create what I'm looking for by using constraints and variables for Parametric Cells. I think most Parametric Cells act similar to how a Ci...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Will not implement

Forcing Tangency in Geometry Builder by element

The Geometry Builder allows us to force tangent restrictions. In some cases there might be some lines/arcs that are tangent and some that are not. It would be an improvement to have the ability to force tangent where needed instead of on all eleme...
about 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to perform evaluation and branching within Labeling tools

Before Survey Annotation tools were available within Open Roads, we used many VBA Feature Macros to generate all survey labels. As we were developing these, we realized that we could build some QA/QC checks into our code. For Example, we shoot sto...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow assignment of VBA Macros by Feature Definition instead of by Alpha Code

In InRoads, multiple alpha codes assigned to a single Feature all shared the same custom codes and other survey settings. Having to duplicate any VBA Feature Macros to every alternative Alpha Codes complicates maintenance and is a source of uninte...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Add Import/Export Ability to Terrain Filters

When setting up terrain filters, there is a substantial amount of effort required in multiple dialog boxes. I had created a report for InRoads that created the XML codes needed for its Terrain Import tool's preferences using an XIN file as its sou...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration