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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...
4 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Retain or be able to re-associate references when "One DGN Per Sheet" used to facilitate ProjectWise Integration

Many companies/DOT's use ProjectWise Explorer Client which will apply attributes such as sheet number and total sheets to sheet models via tags. The only way to apply this on multiple sheets is to use the "One DGN Per Sheet" option. If a reference...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Item Types for Parametric cells

Users are asking for item types for Parametric cells. Primarily for quantities reports.We tag each element, but can we expose volumes for each element in a Parametric cell. The most important things are Volume, Surface Area, Length(Column, Pile, C...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Planned

Re-word the Upgrade dialog to include that the file will also be 'aligned' to the product.

There are several ways a file can be opened though local access, networking, and ProjectWise. There is very minimal documentation available to explain to users the difference between Upgrading and Aligning a file. Not to mention how, when, and why...
almost 2 years ago in All Other / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

We need a SINGLE LIST of configuration variables that can be filtered by ALL products and generation

It would be nice if there was a single list of configuration variables so that we don't have to hunt in different product Help documents (microstation vs openroads) to find details of how they are used. Furthermore there seems to be a lot of confi...
over 2 years ago in Help and Documentation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 1 Future consideration

Copy named boundary from another file

The ability to copy plan drawings from a different file to have the same boundaries for different disciplines and you are able to edit named boundaries in each separate discipline. In summary the named boundaries start the same but they are indepe...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Highlight selected objects through Project Explorer

Want: Objects in model would highlight when selected through the project explorer Why: if you have multiple objects say terrains, and you need to modify them, it would be very helpful to see them highlighted through the project explorer. Often tim...
about 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Plan/Profile Sheets - Center Justify Clip Boundary

Right now in our plan and profile drawing seed files, we can only anchor a clip boundary from its left-most point. This works if users always place the same linear distance on each sheet, but if the user wants to vary the project length shown on e...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

OpenBridge should have a Bridge Objects utility

OBM should incorporate a Bridge Objects utility similar to the Corridor Objects in ORD. Having to go back and forth between the Explorer and the Properties panes is a clunky and inefficient workflow especially when you're typically accessing an ob...
over 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Tool Names need to be consistent

Tool names need to be consistent everywhere. If you go to the tool called "Direction", the tool that opens up looks to have a name of "Change Curve Direction" as the title. if you open to tool called "Coordinate System", the title of the dialog th...
about 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads ConceptStation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration