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Annotate Horizontal length along straight on profile

Requirement is to annotate horizontal length of straight on profile (station end - station start). It is available in frame annotation but not along linear so annotations don't match. Only the slope length can be annotated along the linear
over 2 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a right click option in the Feature Definition dialogue for "Set Active"

When navigating through all the feature definitions it would be handy to have an option to set the feature to the active definition being used. It's easier many times to navigate through the OpenRoads Standards list to find features than using the...
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Export Terrain countours to DWG

Even if you create contours and label them the labels are lost on Terrain drop or export to DWG.
over 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Re-associate turnout to an alignment

When you create a new alignment, break a alignment and lose the turnouts or import a geometry it would be good to be able to re-associate or change the alignment to which a turnout are associated/connected to.For instance when I´m working with a c...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 1 Planned

Named Key Station

Key Station is defined as a station of an alignment, and additional information can't be added. I think it would be great to able to assign a name to the Key Station and use this name in the other modelling that requires station inputs. This will ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Color Coded Surface tool from InRoads to OpenRoads Designer.

The Color-Coded surface tool is missing in OpenRoads Designer which was there in InRoads, We can use the Thematic Height Display Style but that forces to use Rasterized Option while printing and in the PDF the surface gets pixelated.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Bring back the “NE=” key-in command.

U.S. surveyors traditionally work in Northing & Easting, in that order. When working with Microstation V8i, AND with Inroads loaded, the user could perform precision drafting by using the “NE= “ key-in to enter the exact northing/easting coord...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 4 Future consideration

Cross reference plan and profile sheet number annotation form Sheet Index

Add ability to cross reference the sheet numbers of plans that are in the sheet index. IE: referencing the profile sheet number on the plan sheet and vice versa.
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow Annotation Groups to use "Place Text Along" from MicroStation

For a plan annotation group, the ability for annotation text on arcs/curves and spirals/transitions to be placed to follow the geometry centreline curvature. The present options only allow the text to be placed as a tangential/perpendicular straig...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Unable to report on Geometric Points direction relative to an Alignment.

In OpenRail Designer, unable to output the direction information when comparing geometry points to a baseline alignment. In Bentley Rail Track we were able to create clearance reports that included the direction. It appears OpenRailDesigner's repo...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer 2 Needs review