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Geometry Connector: automatically use turnout radius when connecting an arc to a turnout

When using Geometry Connector to connect turnouts, it is often that we must extend the last arc of the turnout. Because the arc is in the turnout we cannot extend it. Instead, we must add an arc of same radius. It would be nice that in such situat...
9 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Hard-Code Precision and format for Station, Angle, Direction, etc. in XML reports

Using XML coding, we can control the precision of items for linear measurements and area measurements, bypassing the precision set by the user. This allows us to provide a more consistent report output. Currently it is not possible to do similar o...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 2 Future consideration

Need equivalent of InRoads input logger

There is a setting that can be turned on in Power InRoads V8i that keeps open a “results dialog box” that records all actions completed. It gives very basic information that we save as text file. The text is then imported into a Word document temp...
about 2 years ago in Survey 1 Future consideration

CAD export settings

So, we have been told that exporting to DXF or DWG will not be implemented. Could we talk about bringing back the CAD export settings from the legacy version. I can open DGN files in several 3rd party software packages but need to turn off block t...
9 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRoads SignCAD 3 Future consideration

OpenBuildings Axis and Building organization in OpenSite

OpenSite should be closer to OpenBuildings than to OpenRoads. Site projects desingers most of the times are working close to architecutes, structure engineers and landscape designers. We miss the commun tools for those enviromments, like BUILDING ...
9 months ago in Workspace 0 Future consideration

Buttons in Level Display that stores and restores the status of levels

Once stored, it will keep track of which levels are turned on and off at the time of pressing stored. Then pressing restore will return the levels back to what they were. This would be useful if you needed to turn off some levels but want to retur...
about 2 years ago in User Interface 1 Already exists

Local edits to a template, now out of sync with library.

It would be nice to see what local changes were made, to a template, before Sync'ing to library. It currently notifies user that there changes made, but doesn't show what those changes are. It is difficult to know what changes may have been made t...
9 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

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

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...