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Analyze point

It would be extremely useful to have Analyze Point on every tab by default. That tool gets utilized a lot to evaluate all kinds of civil geometry.
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Flood Volumes - Surface analysis between three surfaces

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify surface math logic - Above Existing, Below Proposed, and Below "Floodplain" (variable plane) to get good floodplain volumes.
over 1 year ago in Analytics / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Selection of named boundary with different associations

TxDOT likes to see driveway P&P’s side by side on a single sheet (see attached example), and when the workspace didn’t have a sheet seed that accommodated this type of configuration we created one ourselves. The main issue is placing both driv...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Target Alias Sort by Name

Suggesting to sort the Target Alias list by name and increase the width so long concatenated names can be fully read.
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Turnout points for tounge position

In railway engineering, there is a growing demand for positioning of the tongue in turnouts. The proposal is to introduce a new point in the Feature Definition of turnouts, making it possible to specify the distance from point .1 to the Tongue. Su...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Future consideration

Bring back "Create Geometry by Template" command

In the first versions of OpenRoads we had the tool "Create Geometry by Template" which would create ruled geometry from a template . Fast way to for lay out geometry for a project. Not sure why it went away.
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Horizontal Slew On longsection

This tool currently only works on regression geometry. Sometimes I find myself needing to mix regression and standard geometry. once o make these complex the slews do not show on the long section and i find myself manually typing them in from the ...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Quick Horizontal Regression by Slew

The ability to have a tool or a checkbox that lets you run a quick horizontal regression for the alignment that is entirely controlled by the slew value input and not a 'tolerance' value. This would make the quick horizontal regression tool much m...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Future consideration

Best Match Field Code Option

In ORD 10.11 and beyond the Best Match Field Code Option is now a drop-down of the following: Match exact: Feature Must equal an Alpha Code, only exact matches. For example if there is a Feature Definition with Alpha Code set to AP (Asphalt Paveme...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Being able to add/remove references that are stored inside cross sectional saved view

Rather than creating a new cross sectional named boundary, it would be convenient for the saved views to synchronize with 3D reference window and level display. There could even be a feature to toggle this feature on and off for a saved view.
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration