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Make Survey Attribution Easier to Import

Currently, ORD cannot process more than two attributes from a survey data file into their own unique attribute column. The workaround is tedious and unintuitive: First, modify the CSV file from the data collector (not good practice to modify a sur...
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Bring back Active Chain Control or Similar Tool

In GeoPak, the Active Chain Control tool was very useful for selecting a particular chain or alignment and having the location information (station, offset, etc.) be display in a dialogue box. The location information would live track with the loc...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 6 Already exists

Being able to put a feature definition on points created around a circular or arc template component.

When using a circle or an arc in a template component, the software is building linestrings on default level in the 3d model. It is possible to turn off these lines if the Null Point Linear Feature Option is set to False in the template feature de...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotate intersecting alignment point in cross section

I would like to see OpenRoads have the ability to annotate intersecting alignment on cross sections. The attached images illustrate what I am looking for.
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

One button downgrade and export

While we are in a transition phase between the old v8i to the ORD dgn files, we sometimes receive files in the wrong dgn format. The steps to downgrade to a v8i backwards compatible file involves too many steps and introduces units and coordinate ...
over 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Annotating plan elements on profile

We have a client need to streamline the process to annotate the horizontal geometry on the profile. The need is to call out the curve compensation that is calculated at horizontal curves and displayed with a dimension line. As well adding in the h...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Implement a SWITCH/CASE function for item type expressions.

A SWITCH/CASE function would be easier to use than having to nest multiple IF functions.

Make the Geometry Table editor to match drawing/project standard curve definitions

Currently the lengths given by the Table editor gives Chord defined curves as Arc defined lengths. So the length and the stationing are off.
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Add all feature definition types to cross section annotation groups.

Currently, annotation groups are limited to certain feature definition categories. This limits our ability to automatically annotate point features such as signs or geotech borings or drainage/utility nodes. It would be desirable to extract data f...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to pick individual point name to put a Point Control on when using Feature Name Override

When applying a point control, users should have the ability to choose the individual point name when there is also a Feature Name Override on the point. As of now only the override name shows up in the point control pick list, and it currently do...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Future consideration