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When using Cross Section Navigator, ability to see what the respective named boundary in plan view

When using the Cross Section Navigator to review the XS, I would like the ability to see the named boundaries highlight according to the cross section that you are looking at. This was a feature in OpenRoads Technology.
8 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Hard-Code Precision and format for Station, Angle, Direction, etc. in XML reports

Using XML coding, we can control the precision of items for linear measurements and area measurements, bypassing the precision set by the user. This allows us to provide a more consistent report output. Currently it is not possible to do similar o...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 2 Future consideration

Zoom button with CivilAccudraw

It would be useful to have a zoom button (toggle) added to CivilAccudraw to automatically zoom to location of selected point. Example: type a station and it will zoom to that station. And maybe with capability to zoom 2D only or on multiple views ...

Allow user to change default settings

When I open a profile view, the default vertical exaggeration is 10. That is way too much. And I hate having to change it every time I open a profile view. Everyone is diffferent, though. I'm sure some folks love it. It would be nice if there was ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Already exists

Create Top and Bottom Meshes for Surface Templates

Currently ORD will create a top mesh and bottom mesh when a template is assigned to a corridor. However, when a template is assigned to a design non-corridor terrain, no top or bottom meshes are created. Doing so would be very useful for viewing o...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Warning if we attach a dgn with ss4/ss10 schema data

As projects are still transitioning to ORD, I propose for a warning in ORD if someone tries to attach a reference dgn file that includes ss4/ss10 civil schema. As I understand it can be dangerous to mix these types of data especially if something ...
almost 2 years ago in Functional Areas / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Import cant speed from Spreadsheet

A more handy tool that can import the speed, cant for curves through spreadsheet.
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Cell in GC will have additional properties for IFC

Placed cells with Generative components on alignment which have assigned item types as additional properties. Those properties will be later exported to IFC. Now the additional properties are not shown in GC only in ORD.

Existing terrain element concept and modifiers

Vectorworks Landscape, Revit 2024 or Virtual Surveyor (a drone photogrammetry software) treat existing terrain in a extremely effective way, but all of them lack the volumes and tools from OpenRoads. What they do is genarating a solid from the exi...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
about 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration