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Stationing Text "View Readable" Setting to Honor Rotated Views

The "View Readable" Setting (SEE IMAGE 1) Should: Display text as readable when looking left up the page when the alignment is at zero degrees as the industry standard ( SEE IMAGE 2)(note that the view is unrotated and North is pointing up) Honor ...

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

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

Please fix the Standards in OpenRoads Designer Connect Edition to not copy to the individual dgn files in the project.

On very large projects with hundreds of people working on the project and you need to change a standard you should not have to go thru all of the dgns in the project to update or purge old standards. Most of the time the standards evolve as the pr...

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

feature definition - browser all element that used a specific feature definition

Get a list of elements using a specific feature definition. Similar to level usage. This "select by graphic filter" filter only feature type that compose a terrain model.
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 5 Already exists

Single Offset Partial/Entire Element creates complex elements with the ability to add/remove tapers

One of the factors prohibiting the use of civil geometry in plan production is that it can often feel cumbersome to implement design changes without 'breaking' your previous work. Let's say you have an intersection designed using civil geometry, a...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Simplfy the Interface - How many "sizes" can there be?

Object Properties - Feature Definition of a pipe is top level, its description is a pick list of diameters (TxDOT), but Utilities Properties has three different locations. This complexity is unnecessary.

I need to see slope on the Longsection as a Ratio (not percentage)

We set our drawings in design setting as a slope Ratio, when producing the longsection they come out as percentage always. but it should come out as a ratio as per our settings. Why is it important, my Client wants it as a ratio
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer 9 Already exists

Add WorkSet-wide project components to Explorer

It would be extremely useful to be able to have a list of all the project components in a WorkSet easily accessible from the explorer, regardless of what dgn you are in. Exactly like the sheet index tool but for terrain models, alignments, corrido...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface / Workspace 0 Future consideration