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Refresh or Update All Drawing Model Annotations

I would like a tool to 'refresh' or 'update' all drawing model annotations at once. Instead of having to 'Remove Drawing Model Annotations', then run the 'Annotate Drawing Model' command, I would like an option for the program to do this in a sing...
2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - option to place DUConduit annotation at endpoints only

Idea: ability to select the End point of linear features while setting the Civil Labeler placement. This functionality would help users to place annotation of DU links at end point only. This type of feature is useful to annotate the Drop Depth va...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Improve "Create Terrain from Design Meshes" & "Graphical Filter" tool. Filter by Fence / Shape / Reference Clip / Level Display / Selection Set

When I first saw this tool I was so excited. I could drape the design meshes from top or bottom and create a terrain . Then I started using it and realize the tool may need some improvement because it processes everything in the file or reference ...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration

Create Profile Named Boundary of non-active Verticals

We need a way to manually select the vertical alignment (profile element) when creating Profile named boundaries (instead of assuming we want to use the active vertical). In cases where we have divided roadways that follow a shared centerline but ...
2 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Drainage Annotation rotation based on sheet view rotation

Currently, the only rotation options for drainage annotation is constant. With alignments that are curving, our sheets must change rotation. It would save a lot of time spent manually adjusting rotation on each sheet.
4 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Needs review

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...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 4 Future consideration

Ability to Copy Corridors and Parts of Corridors

Developing projects requires many iterations involving multiple alternatives. For simpler projects it may be feasible to manually duplicate a corridor but as corridors get more complex this method becomes more cumbersome and prone to error. When d...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Cant Customizable Parameters and Improved Navigation

I have a couple of issues with this 1 when you edit the cants its slow and the curser always jumps back to the top of the page, you cant simply go to the next line down 2 none of the automated cants are ever suitable. I'd like to be able to add in...
21 days ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Can openrail consider to improve the edit horizontal element tool

There are quite a lot of situations we need to edit element lengths (shorten or lengthen) by fixing their stop ends, which can be done easily in BRT; However, I couldn't find similar tools in Openrail to solve it. Can Openrail improve the table ed...
22 days ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Enhance Annotation Definitions (Add text frame option and associate leader line to text)

Currently when creating/using annotation groups, the annotation definition can place a leader line. But when the annotation is placed the leader line is not associated with the text so if I move the text the leader line does not move with it. Simi...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration