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Be able to change Slope> Ratio format Rise: Run divisor (:)

When selecting that option on design file settings or other places like the fields on text favorites. User needs to control the symbology of the divisor between Rise and Run. it seems to be hardcoded to use (:). User needs to change it to other te...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

View and Edit contents of a Terrain

Contents of terrains currently can't be viewed or edited. Features can be added and removed from a terrain but there is no viewable info on these elements. What elements is the terrain created from? What elements are used for triangulation? Survey...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Already exists

Access to full Backstage menus prior to opening a file

There may be times when a user would like to utilitze the Tools, Civil Tools, etc. or change user prefs, configuration variables, etc. Currernty you have to open a file before you can access the Backstage.
about 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Profile Grid Annotation - Place as Point Cell versus Graphic Cell

Currently, when a profile is annotated along the grid, the text is placed as a Graphic Annotation Cell. For right to left profiles, the easiest fix is to create Annotation Gro ups and Definitions that basically annotate the text backwards. Then, ...
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow pasting Excel tables in Design Standard Tables

One of the features that I think would improve the software is the ability to paste Design Standards Tables from Excel into the software. This would save a lot of time and effort for users who need to adjust these values frequently, especially whe...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to Edit Event Point List within Actived Referenced DGN

Activating a referenced dgn with geometry does not allow editing the Event Point List.
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Create multiple field books w/o terrain connecting

The ability to create multiple field books without the terrain connecting to each. This would be necessary when surveying multiple sites for one given road project. Currently, this is done by importing the data and then going to the survey setti...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Symbol to easily display which profile is active

When multiple profiles are drawn in one alignment or civil feature, the user has to hunt for which one is set active. If they are close to each other and/or the same feature definition this is quite tedious! It would be helpful if there was a way ...
7 months ago in Geometry / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Create multiple long sections/profiles in the same model space

When creating profiles/long sections for track vertical geometry, ORD creates an individual sheet view and model view for each sheet. This creates a large amount of work when trying to bulk annotate or export long sections for drafting. It would b...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Additional Shoulder Rollover Slope Rows (3D Modeling - Templates)

I would like to make a suggestion on an improvement to template design for 3D Modeling in ORD. The Rollover values tool in superelevation template design is incredibly helpful, as it saves time by calculating the proper shoulder super rates accord...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration