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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...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Default Alignment Start Stationing

Include an ability to have a default Start Stationing for an alignment. It would save time (and improve consistency) for several of our alignments where we'd like the default stationing set at 10+00. I imagine many other users could appreciate thi...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Non-Modelled Volumes in Mass Diagram

In ORD 2023 there is no provision for manually adding non-modelled cut or fill volumes to a mass diagram or earthwork report. Manual volumes are typically used for borrowing sites, waste sites, non-modelled bridge embankments and merging models su...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Surcharge Volume Option

Add a Surcharge Volume Option for Meshes & Terrains. This would need to function so as to compare the Surcharge to Design and Existing volumes/terrains. Surcharge embankment will always be above finished or existing grade, so consider this as ...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Set a view target point with the 3D Drive Through Tool

Ability to set a target point that the tool fixes on when driving down the alignment.
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add A More Intuitive/Simplistic Way Of Copying OpenRoads Data From One .dgn File To Another

We need a more Intuitive/Simplistic way of copying OpenRoads Data/Designs from one .dgn to another. Reason Being: Other disciplines (mechanical/structural etc.) reference our Civil Models into their designs and only want to see the latest versions...
over 1 year ago in OpenRoads 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...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Calculation column in drainage and utilities flex table.

A formula could be made using existing columns to calculate a value that is atypical or not an option otherwise. I need a pipe full flow velocity check for a design. I can use excel to calculate using full flow capacity and full flow area but if t...
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Already exists

Incorporate an ORD roadway designer window & file (.ord)

I'll be honest, the implementation ORD's strength is the software's weakest point. Being able to visually see the model in the 2D default model theoretically sounds great but the execution is costing too much time and money on medium to large scal...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Will not implement