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Adding Japanese Cubic Parabola

OpenRail Designer seems to have Japanese Sine spiral type added from the formula used in Power RailTrack. However, there seems to be nothing similar to Japanese Cubic Parabola, which is based on a different formula from Japanese Sine.
11 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow LFD substructure analysis with an LRFD Superstructure in LEAP Steel

When performing a superstructure replacement, it is common to design the proposed superstructure in LRFD but then analyze the existing substructure capacity in LFD. Currently with LEAP Steel, because the superstructure was designed in LRFD the sub...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics 0 Needs review

Create 3D by slope to terrain needs to have the option for the fill slope to be positive and vise versa for cut slope

When projecting a line to a terrain currently the only option for fill is down and cut is up. This needs to be a user selectable option. There are many cases where the proposed surface is above the existing ground yet the fill projection needs to ...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Geometry Points ruled by Name to allow users to move Points by importing ASCII

Ruling point import by name would add some powerful automation to the software. If a user could import a Point via ASCII and have any existing Points with the same name update (while maintaining the same object) this would allow things like posts ...
over 2 years ago in Geometry 0 Future consideration

Store vertical/horizontal alignment of low points

A tool existed in Geopak that could pick out the low point of a cross section to the left and right of centerline and construct horizontal and vertical alignments from that. This essentially automated the creation of a ditch profile along an entir...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Profile by best fit - Curve radius

Request to introduce the ability to create a profile by best fit by defining the radius of the arc rather than its length?
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Exporting reports to excel now prompted to save the file first, rather than it exporting directly into a new excel window.

Reporting tools are critical to our workflows to validate and document designs. Please consider reverting to exporting directly to Excel without having to save first - as this added step appears to be causing the issue, and only adds time to the w...
11 months ago in Reports 0

Provide Low Point/High Point Information in Profile Table Editor

Lost functionality that was available in Geopak. Helpful to meet specific locations when designing a profile, instead of storing the profile and reading the profile report, or hand calculation of the low and high points.
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Please add support for DWG files on import or Attach function

I am using OpenRoads ConceptStation 2024, Tried to load the basic 2D dwg file as reference for a road design work, but system not allowed, current turnaround is convert dwg to dgn which is not best bet. Pease add support for DWG files on "import" ...
11 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRoads ConceptStation 0 Future consideration

elevation analysis in profile view

Elevation analysis needs improved within the profile window. Specifically elevation differences. Either at a single station or point, or minimum distances, etc. In the attached screen shot, I would like to know where my minimum distance occurs bet...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists