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Annotate Horizontal length along straight on profile

Requirement is to annotate horizontal length of straight on profile (station end - station start). It is available in frame annotation but not along linear so annotations don't match. Only the slope length can be annotated along the linear
over 2 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Dynamics / Rules to Meshes produced by Create Closed Mesh Tool

Currently the Create Closed Mesh Tool produces static meshes which do not update when base elements change. When any of the base elements change, the existing meshes need to be deleted and created from scratch. We would like to see the following i...
over 2 years ago in Modeling 0 Future consideration

Export Terrain countours to DWG

Even if you create contours and label them the labels are lost on Terrain drop or export to DWG.
over 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Re-associate turnout to an alignment

When you create a new alignment, break a alignment and lose the turnouts or import a geometry it would be good to be able to re-associate or change the alignment to which a turnout are associated/connected to.For instance when I´m working with a c...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 1 Planned

Add Color Coded Surface tool from InRoads to OpenRoads Designer.

The Color-Coded surface tool is missing in OpenRoads Designer which was there in InRoads, We can use the Thematic Height Display Style but that forces to use Rasterized Option while printing and in the PDF the surface gets pixelated.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Better Side Slope Annotation tool

Plan annotation for side slopes is something really difficult to do in plan drawings. First, there is only one workflow using Annotation Groups for 3D elements (3D side slope annotation is the full name). This make so that I can`t use my elements ...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production 1 Future consideration

Option to refresh/update/revise geometry point sequencing

When designing different types of sites/pads etc, it is very typical to provide set out points on our drawings. The issue is that designs can change requiring us to remove certain points which will leave a gap in the point sequencing. There needs ...
about 2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Make the Drainage Catch Basin Grate Perimeter and Open Area variables reportable

Some DOTs require input of an exact values for catch basin grate open area for orifice flow and catch basin grate perimeter for weir flow. ORD would consider these as calculated values, not inputs. These are not ORD outputs and are hidden from the...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Esri Shapefile Field Name to be longer than 10 characters

When exporting a drainage flex table in ESRI format, the default field names include names longer than 10 characters. This throws the error message: "The Esri Shapefile field name <Middle_Flow> for column <Flow (Middle)> cannot be long...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Bring back the “NE=” key-in command.

U.S. surveyors traditionally work in Northing & Easting, in that order. When working with Microstation V8i, AND with Inroads loaded, the user could perform precision drafting by using the “NE= “ key-in to enter the exact northing/easting coord...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 4 Future consideration