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When creating a new point in a Survey field book using the “New Point” command, allow an option to hand-enter the coordinates.

When using the “New Point” command for a survey point, the user must screen-pick the coordinates. There are times when it would be extremely useful to hand-enter the Northing, Easting, Elevation.
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Ability to make Geometry Profile models indexed DGN models for ease of use & design workflows

Similar to all the other models, we regularly want to go in and out of Alignment Profile models and the current methods of having to navigate to the geometry to access it is very disruptive and inefficient. Also, having these as hidden models limi...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Export to IFC/Export to SHP/Export Geometry to reprojected coordinate system

Part of our design process includes exporting Geometry lines to XML and exporting both IFC and SHP files. These assets get loaded into our GIS system. However, during the design process, we design off of a modified coordinate system, and our GIS s...
4 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotate part of element name on cross sections and profiles

I want to be able to annotate the names (and item type properties) of utilities on cross sections and profiles. For example, if there are 10 water pipes that have been surveyed and imported as 3D linear elements they will have unique feature names...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Calculate the area of survey chains if they are enclosed shapes

Survey chains (when enclosed) have a reported area value of zero. This is seen in the properties for the geometry, and also if you try to read the area through an item type using the expression This.GetElement().EnclosedArea. Our construction staf...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Report>VerticalAlignmentToTIW.xsl, please include equations

One can use Import Vertical From ASCII which will includes equations
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Viewing preview annotation in profile frame annotation setup

Currently, in the setting up of profile drawing annotation group, we have no visibility of what is being set up for the frame annotation. It does not provide a preview of the values and output that will be presented and that is challenging as we w...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Swept path tool - meshes and features for front, mid and rear positions of the vehicle for calculation step gapss

To design platform coping strings and walkway edge strings in tunnels To calculate step gaps between the vehicle step edge and walkway / platform edge For trucks, cars, and trains.
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Enable multiple template drops with Linear Template tool

Enable the use of multiple template drops (different cross section templates) in the Linear Template tool.
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Background for Civil Labeler

The civil labeler is a very useful tool for creating text labels with different boundaries. However, in several cases, the label that we need to create needs to be on top of other elements. Currently, the only way to create a background of any col...
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration