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Existing terrain element concept and modifiers

Vectorworks Landscape, Revit 2024 or Virtual Surveyor (a drone photogrammetry software) treat existing terrain in a extremely effective way, but all of them lack the volumes and tools from OpenRoads. What they do is genarating a solid from the exi...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Change Text Favorite element attachment/selections

When using text favorites that are based on an alignment (station/offset), these text favorites can break if the alignment changes or is dropped or it can't find it. As far as I know, when this happens, there is no way to reassign the text favorit...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Project Geometry Using Active Feature Definition

When projecting various 2d geometry or 3d linear geometry the user is first required to set the active feature definition in the feature definition toolbar so that the project geometry shows up on the correct level, ect. It would speed things up i...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Geometry Point "Name &/or ID" as an option for "Columns to Add" When Reporting on Geometry Points

In order to create a "Set Out Point Table" which is dynamically linked to geometry points in a DGN, we first need to report on the Points. Currently for Geometry Points, there is No Option to include the Geometry Point Name or ID. This Needs to be...
8 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 1 Future consideration

When using Cross Section Navigator, ability to see what the respective named boundary in plan view

When using the Cross Section Navigator to review the XS, I would like the ability to see the named boundaries highlight according to the cross section that you are looking at. This was a feature in OpenRoads Technology.
8 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

annotate cut and fill sections in plan view

this would allow for automated text to get placed for cut and fill sections to denote which areas are which. This would assist with meeting SCDOT requirements. Previously, this could be accomplished in PowerGEOPAK with a SCDOT VBA.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add an automated slider button for the object spacing box.

For newer users a quick design option in the (Object Spacing box) for simpler signs would be great. We typically space lines of text using 1/2 to 3/4 of the text height used. If the program could do this automatically with a slider button that sho...
over 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to perform evaluation and branching within Labeling tools

Before Survey Annotation tools were available within Open Roads, we used many VBA Feature Macros to generate all survey labels. As we were developing these, we realized that we could build some QA/QC checks into our code. For Example, we shoot sto...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow assignment of VBA Macros by Feature Definition instead of by Alpha Code

In InRoads, multiple alpha codes assigned to a single Feature all shared the same custom codes and other survey settings. Having to duplicate any VBA Feature Macros to every alternative Alpha Codes complicates maintenance and is a source of uninte...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration