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Utility Overhead Conduits/Nodes

Current Limitations Currently, creating overhead conductors between two "Overhead Nodes" (e.g., utility poles) results in a straight-line conduit. In reality, these lines always exhibit a natural sag due to gravity and tension forces. To model sag...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotate Multiple Terrain levels in Cross section frames annotation

In our legacy software packages we regularly annotated levels of multiple Terrain surfaces and the level differences between them in Cross sections and we look to have lost this functionality in ORD so far. This is especially useful to annotate th...
almost 3 years ago in Drawing Production 6 Future consideration

Clearance Report

Rail industry needs to measure clearance of many elements relative to the track: linear and point. Not all can be done using 3D clash. Some exact value are sometime required by the standards. Typically measurement of a platform edge from the CL bu...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Reports 5 Planned

Save Feature Override Name

Currently when turning off a feature override name, the name reverts back to the point name. It would be nice to have the feature override name save, when turned off so that the user can toggle the override off and on without needing to retype the...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

ORD SUDA - drainage profile view

Currently when profiling a Utility (nodes and conduits), the lines on the nodes and conduits are "closed". Old Inroads Storm/Sanitary had open connections. Agency we submit the plans want us to show that connection as open. Only option at the mome...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities 3 Planned

Export to SHP file should automatically handle unit conversions

Users expecting an enhancement for export to SHP file function should export the data without having to change the units and handle the conversion on the fly from the selected working units if they differ from the dataset. To provide context: The ...

Deed Writer Tool Enhancement - Allow formatting options for calculated phrases

User's should be allowed to customize the formatting that is generated by the Deed Report tool. This should include calculated phrases. For example: User should be allowed to choose compass direction format. If direction outputted is northeast, Us...
about 2 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Restrict limits of unsuitable removal to only within grading limits

See this thread from the Bentley OpenRoads Community: https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/f/geopak-inroads-mx-openroads-forum/226295/ord-2021-r2-limits-of-unsuitable-removal
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Hatching in Cross section drawing model

The create region tool doesn't recognize visible edges from the 3d model to create closed shapes by flood. There are many instances were it is needed to calculate areas in cross sections.
6 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - Add Dimension Line when annotation between points

When using Civil Labeler to annotate between 2 points, like plan linear>between geometry, it would be great to be able to place a dimension line controlled by usual dimension style and being able to place the annotation at the middle of the dim...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Planned