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Modify the LLS part when placing a turnout.

Currently one could add an LLS part on a turnout. Unfortunately this is a standard value. Sometimes, when creating a horizontal geometry, it is necessary to ''shorten'' the LLS part (aka to place a fewer amount of long sleepers that a standard LLS...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Create a tool that constructs transitions between different types of rail sections

Sometimes in track design, one must use different types of rails, say 60kg and 50kg rails. One could weld them and grind them together but this is a crude method. In Sweden they use what is called a transition rail, which in principle contain a sm...
about 2 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

ORD Drainage/Utilities - Make Item Types Attached through Feature Definitions visible outside ORD

Based on service now case CS0300323, item types attached to drainage/utility nodes through feature definitions are not visible in MicroStation or i.dgns. However, if the item types are attached manually to nodes they are visible outside the civil ...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Create cross sections from MicroStation elements

Ability to select lines for cross sections like in Geopak and to be able to import /export said lines for use. When you have miles of data and your sections are not perpendicular, selecting 2 end points per section is very time consuming.
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 6 Future consideration

Update Standards from Dgnlib needs to allow user selections

Please adjust the "update standards from dgnlib" in Explorer to allow for more user control for what will update. I also want more visibility any active file, project resources that are different compared to the dgnlib resources. Consider a situat...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 1 Future consideration

Add an option to include "Profile" when offsetting Geometry

There should be an option to include the Profile when offsetting geometry if desired. Currently we need to offset the geometry and then copy the profile. It would be much more intuitive if there was an option to just include the profile when initi...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add Picklist for Alignments for Station/Offset Expressions

Need the ability to pick alignments that are in the file or referenced in the file when using the new station and offset item type expressions. Manually typing them in is currently the only option. The attached screen shot shows where this would b...
over 2 years ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - Add capability to incorporate cells alongside text favorites

We have several annotations that require a combination of cell and civil element data. I've attached 2 examples where we have a need to combine cell with text favorite data. While the text favorite can be added within the cell itself, there are ti...
8 months ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

DU tool to update node name by feature definition

The name of the nodes are defined at placement by the selected Feature Definition. It's common for it to be changed during the design process. For these cases, all altered nodes must be manually renamed. This usually is done through selection or u...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Update Element Information Description - ORD

Geometry>Standards>Set Element Information This tool seems to lend itself to recording and reviewing an alignment layout and design process and having it live in the dgn file vs an auxillary notepad or spreadsheet. As the design progresses i...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration