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Auto-rotate Annotation and Labels

Suggestion to allow annotation and labels to align with plan named boundaries and sheet file plan views. For example, consider a plan named boundaries shape around a horizontal curve. If you have a separate standalone annotation file, often times,...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Integrate Civil File Manager with ProjectWise Explorer

Integrate Civil File Manager with ProjectWise Explorer so exporting and other workarounds are not needed. The ability to create a new version would also be nice.
3 months ago in All Other / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Enhance Annotation Definitions (Add text frame option and associate leader line to text)

Currently when creating/using annotation groups, the annotation definition can place a leader line. But when the annotation is placed the leader line is not associated with the text so if I move the text the leader line does not move with it. Simi...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

OpenRoads Designer Keyin List

MicroStation has provided the Keyin list. Can bentley provide OpenRoads Designer a keyin list to the user? such as geometry subsitute, GEOMETRY DYNAMICSECTION DELETEDXSVIEWS, and etc.
over 1 year ago in Help and Documentation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 1 Future consideration

Export to SHP file should automatically handle unit conversions

Users expecting an enhancement for export to SHP file function should export the data without having to change the units and handle the conversion on the fly from the selected working units if they differ from the dataset. To provide context: The ...
about 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

Drawing Model Optional

Creation of the drawing Model is Optional in sheet production in MicroStation. I believe this should be true for civil Plan as well. We should be able to create a drawing seed that does not have the option ON for creating drawing. Most of the Plan...
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 6 Future consideration

OBM should support multi-model, 2D and 3D workflows similar to OpenRoads

Users currently need to always start with a 3D file in OBM unlike in ORD. Allow users to support the multi-model (2D and 3D) behavior similar to OpenRoads Designer. All decorations should be in the 2D file and all 3D objects in the 3D file. When s...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Planned

WS wind speeds table for FDOT Sdg 2.4 (and combinations) are not updated as per 2025

There appears to be a discrepancy in wind load calculations—specifically, the gust factor of 0.85 remains different from AASHTO standards. However, the FDOT Structures Design Guidelines (SDG) 2025 now allow the use of AASHTO Article 3.8, which may...
26 days ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

LBS to read LL libraries from LBC

The Live Load (LL) library in LBS currently allows importing .cs3 files, which are legacy formats from the stand-alone versions of CONSPAN and CONBOX (see screenshot below). However, in the latest releases of LBC under OpenBridge Designer (OBD), i...
26 days ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Exporting entire LBS model (cross-frames, diaphragms and stiffeners) to DGN

In LBS (LEAP Bridge Steel), it appears that cross frames (CF) and stiffeners are not exported to the DGN file. The screenshot below is from LBS Tutorial 2, which highlights this limitation. The goal is to streamline CAD detailing by having LBS gen...
27 days ago in Import/Export / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review