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Ability to set up a profile annotation group to place a single annotation for a complex profile.

Ability to set up a profile annotation group to place a single annotation for a complex profile. When we go to Annotation group we don't have option to placing single annotation for the element.
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Apply annotation group text as graphic group for simpler management of data

Apply element annotation group text as graphic groups for simpler management of data so that users can turn on Graphic Group lock and use the delete tool to select one text element and it will delete all elements in the graphic group. So users cou...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the Utility Property Panel

We are now 10 years into OpenRoads. Why are we still faced with two property panels. One for MicroStation and one for Utility/drainage. The two property panels overlap in what is displayed. ELIMINATE the Utility Properties Panel so we can end the ...
about 1 month ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Transpose Element option to Create a Copy.

When using the Transpose tool, the software makes a copy of the element you are selecting to transpose, and that is the element that is reversed, leaving behind the original underneath. Most of the time I do not want a copy of the transposed eleme...

Quadrant Option for Bearing input in Geometry/Lines

Geometry/Lines requires you to enter the bearing value as S45d30'30"E which is way too many key strokes and unproductive. Geometry Builder allows us to enter the same bearing using the quadrant method (245.3030) which is much faster/easier and ali...
18 days ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Need Named Boundaries or Multi-Point Cross Sections that can turn for secondary alignments

Currently, when secondary alignments are used, the cross sections are always based perpendicular to the primary alignment. We need the ability for named boundaries (or some other means of creating multi-point cross sections) to understand when sec...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration

Annotate Rock and Undercut in XS

When you create earthwork, there is a way to create an additional quantities for rock excavation and unsuitable material. We are wanting to be able to run the earthwork EAV report to have those quantities in EAV format, and then be able to annotat...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add The Ability To Insert A Vertical Bend Or Curve Into A Drainage Link/PIPE.

It would be very helpful and much more efficient if there was an option to insert a vertical bend or curve into a drainage link/pipe from the profile run profile view. Basically, adding the exact same tool that is available in plan/horizontal call...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Annotate Cross Section Locations In Plan

We often want to show the location of cross section in plan which can be done using the named Boundary Lines but they need to be annotated so you know what each represents e.g. stations/chainages or section names such as letters etc. There is a wo...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 6 Future consideration

Split Cross Sections if Elements in Model Extend Outside of Default Width.

Currently our DOT requires that if ROW lines (or any element in the corridor) are outside the width of the default XS width, the user needs to create an extension or split the XS's to be able to show all design elements and ROW labels. Currently t...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration