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Field with station range of named boundary

It would be great if we could create a field (text favorite) that would label the station begin and end of a named boundary for an index of sheets layout.
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add option for rounding corners when using the "Geometry Offsets and Tapers" Tool

With regular MicroStation lines, when using the "move parallel" tool (Offset), there is an option to choose "Round" which creates rounded corners for the offset line. There should be a similar option when using the ORD Tool "Offsets and Tapers." C...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

One button downgrade and export

While we are in a transition phase between the old v8i to the ORD dgn files, we sometimes receive files in the wrong dgn format. The steps to downgrade to a v8i backwards compatible file involves too many steps and introduces units and coordinate ...
almost 3 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Annotating plan elements on profile

We have a client need to streamline the process to annotate the horizontal geometry on the profile. The need is to call out the curve compensation that is calculated at horizontal curves and displayed with a dimension line. As well adding in the h...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Cross Section Navigator - Default Beginning Station

A user has expressed the desire for the cross-section navigator to default to the beginning station of the associated alignment. Currently, ORD appears to remember the last station that was given focus or where cross-section navigator tools were u...
6 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Make the Geometry Table editor to match drawing/project standard curve definitions

Currently the lengths given by the Table editor gives Chord defined curves as Arc defined lengths. So the length and the stationing are off.
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

XTR-Import for OpenRoads

From rail companies in Switzerland we receive their rail alignment in form of an .xtr file. This file includes geometry, station, cant, construction and destruction phase and turnout information. Currently the import of an XTR-file in OpenRoads is...
12 months ago in Geometry / Import/Export / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow for LP/HP for terrains to have both Point and Text shown at the same time

When zooming out, the points are shown. When zooming in, the points are hidden and the text is shown. I'd like for the point to always be shown and have the text be dynamic.
almost 3 years ago in Terrain 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...
over 2 years ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to flip/reverse cross sections around baseline.

Ability to flip/reverse cross sections around baseline. Currently, when you reverse section, it does not hold station 0.
almost 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration