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Geometry Connector: Add column for degree of curve for an arc

Please Add column for degree of curve for an arc. The Geometry Connector should show the Degre e of Curve for an Arc, and not just Radius. It is annoying to have to use Excel or a calculator to go back and forth when you need a curve to be a certa...
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Option to keep siding alignment start station in synch with mainline alignment

Option to keep siding alignment start station in synch with mainline alignment as shown in the attached video
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to separate the annotation of curves and spirals for the rail cant

Ability to separate the annotation of curves and spirals for the rail cant. At present the Non-Linear setting is applying to both This is usefull to remove some clutter (especially where there is short elements like below;
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Add ability to draw Ahead/Back Tangent line for full length from PC to PI and from PT to PI

Currently in annotation group, the back/ahead tangent line drawn at the PI only has the option for a fixed length. We would like the ability to draw back and ahead tangents the full length from PC to PI to PC. This could apply to both horizontal a...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Make Survey Attribution Easier to Import

Currently, ORD cannot process more than two attributes from a survey data file into their own unique attribute column. The workaround is tedious and unintuitive: First, modify the CSV file from the data collector (not good practice to modify a sur...
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Ability to change appearance of points generated from Equal Space Points command

With the Equal Space Points command, points are generated to mark intervals along an element. However, these points are very difficult to see and use. In Autocad, the command PTYPE allows you to change point styles to different shapes and sizes to...
5 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Non automatic update of cant values in cant table

This comment is coupled with another idea I had regarding selective update of annotations. Again the problem stems directly from the dynamic nature of ORD. Usually the process to create a cant for an alignment goes as follows: -Creation of speed t...
about 2 years ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Remove trailing zeros

Whether or not it was a setting, pre-2023 SignCAD could suppress trailing zeroes for integer and terminating decimal measurements even if decimal places were specified. In 2023 it seems to be an all-or-nothing proposition that leads to dimension o...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / Signs 0 Planned

Bring back Active Chain Control or Similar Tool

In GeoPak, the Active Chain Control tool was very useful for selecting a particular chain or alignment and having the location information (station, offset, etc.) be display in a dialogue box. The location information would live track with the loc...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 6 Already exists

Being able to put a feature definition on points created around a circular or arc template component.

When using a circle or an arc in a template component, the software is building linestrings on default level in the 3d model. It is possible to turn off these lines if the Null Point Linear Feature Option is set to False in the template feature de...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration