Skip to Main Content
Need Support? Let’s guide you to the right answer or agent.
ADD A NEW IDEA

OpenRail Designer

Showing 1150

Add the ability to perform evaluation and branching within Labeling tools

Before Survey Annotation tools were available within Open Roads, we used many VBA Feature Macros to generate all survey labels. As we were developing these, we realized that we could build some QA/QC checks into our code. For Example, we shoot sto...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Incorporate an ORD roadway designer window & file (.ord)

I'll be honest, the implementation ORD's strength is the software's weakest point. Being able to visually see the model in the 2D default model theoretically sounds great but the execution is costing too much time and money on medium to large scal...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Will not implement

Ability to drag and drop Point and Component Feature Definitions

We are able to drag and drop within the Active Template in the Components section to add or remove a child. We would like it to expand the ability to Point and Component Feature Definitions as well as Alternate Surfaces and Parametric Constraints....
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Existing Top of Rail Elevations

Needs a more efficient way to annotate existing top of rail elevations in a profile view.
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer 2 Future consideration

Set cant parameters before applying

Make the Cant tool more useful. Currently, we set the speed then apply cant and it spits out some random cant values, which are unrealistic. Then we can set the cant parameters and the software proves the values are unrealistic and we have to edit...
over 1 year ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 1 Needs review

Vertical profile offset and snaps

ORD to allow vertical profile offset tool to snap to CAD lines. When alignments change horizontally, profile offsets do not retain snaps to features including CAD lines.
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add option to use only centerline radius for superelevation calculations

Provide an option or new method to use the centerline radius (instead of inside lane radius) for divided highways that use a Crown pivot method. The Divided Inside pivot method already does this for divided highways that pivot about the inside lan...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Gutter spread - flip side

Why do gutters not have a "side" as spread when drawn appear in the right side.
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

If no Design Lenghts in Catalog - Ignore or Set Design Inlet Openings to false

I do not see a place to force in a Inlet Catalog to set "Design Inlet Opening" to false, so I would like the software to assume False if lenghts are NOT in the catalog.
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Needs review

Description column in Civil Labeler

We are converting some of the cells that we have used in the past for placing text into Text Favorites so we can place them using the Civil Labeler. However, we are used to browsing to having both the cell name and description columns in the Cells...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration