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Make Survey Attribution Easier to Import

Currently, ORD cannot process more than two attributes from a survey data file into their own unique attribute column. The workaround is tedious and unintuitive: First, modify the CSV file from the data collector (not good practice to modify a sur...
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

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...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

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 "Auto Left Right Top" and "Auto Left Right Bottom" as Options for Civil Labeler Leader Location

We need options added for "Auto Left Right Top" and "Auto Left Right Bottom" for Civil Labeler Leader Location (Image 1) so that we can have consistency and match our other "Company Standard" Labels as shown in Image 2. I understand there are opti...
8 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Set size for Conduit in the Feature Definition.

Currently we have generic pipes (ie RCP Class III) and on placement, the user defines the size by using the description field. Because of this, I cannot attach an Item Type and explicitly set the Pay Item information. If I can set what the size of...
8 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 1 Needs review

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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Ignore Specific Survey Observations

InRoads had the ability to ignore specific survey observations. If ORD had that same capability that would be fantastic.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

DU: conduit wall thickness improvement

Follow up for my other idea BCI-I-494 (link https://bentleyopencivil.ideas.aha.io/ideas/BCI-I-494). The feature was implemented, but it still missing some core functions. What it does now, is add the drop on a design scenario. If the setting is tu...

annotate cut and fill sections in plan view

this would allow for automated text to get placed for cut and fill sections to denote which areas are which. This would assist with meeting SCDOT requirements. Previously, this could be accomplished in PowerGEOPAK with a SCDOT VBA.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration