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Drainage Profile Change Property (Color/linestyle)

Currently, Profiles are drawn according to the feat definition/element templates of a node and/or conduits. There are times we need to differentiate the difference between an existing network vs proposed. eg. all proposed are required to be solid ...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 4 Planned

Superelevation Frame Annotation can annotate the 0% cross slope location

As part of the profile superelevation annotation, the annotation currently cannot annotate the location where the superelevation is 0%. This would be helpful to show in plans and for designers to easily see the station this point is at.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Template Display Rules for Null Points

Template Display Rules are very powerful and widely used in corridor modeling workflows. However, Display Rules are only available for components. We would like to extend this functionality to the Null Points. This would open new possibilities for...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Tool to Convert a Survey Linear to a Civil Geometry Complex Element or a MicroStation Linestring

There should be a one button command to convert a Survey Linear to a Civil Geometry Complex Element, a MicroStation Linestring, or individual MicroStation lines (User picks what they want). There are ways to accomplish this process now but most in...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 5 Future consideration

Multiple Vehicle Cross-Section Outlines

Unlike BRT, ORD does not allow defining different cross-section outlines for the front, middle, and rear of a vehicle. This capability is critical for accurate clearance assessments, especially for vehicles with varying geometry (e.g., tapered cab...
22 days ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Inside Rail Pivot for Swept Envelope

In railway design, the standard practice is to pivot at the inside (low) rail when applying cant and generating swept envelopes. Currently, OpenRail Designer does not provide an option for this; users must create complex templates with point contr...
22 days ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Support Multiple Leaders on Civil Labels

Currently, civil labels with leaders do not support multiple leaders. We often label similar elements with a single label and multiple leaders. The civil label could read the data from the first element and then allow us to place multiple arrows. ...
2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to Create Terrain Model from Multiple Toggled Field Books

There is currently not a way to create a terrain model from toggling multiple field books under the Survey Data tab. Users can currently use the Create Terrain Model From Field Book Selection Set tool to create a terrain from an element selection ...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Disable Point Controls Rather than Delete When Control Can't Be Found

Currently when the control - profile, alignment, feature - can't be found due to a deletion or reference detachment, the corresponding point control(s) is removed from the corridor. Considering that these events may occur inadvertently and not dis...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Export multiple element types in one LandXML

Wants an ability to export all the files in single landxml file which includes all the terrains with addition to plan geometry, longitudinal geometry and cross-sections.
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration