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Directly Link to NOAA data

Most state are or are moving to using NOAA rainfall Data. Basic IDF tables can be Downloaded and Uploaded, but it should integrate with the different Calculation methods (Table equations, Poly Log, IDF Curve.....)
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Calculating Multiple Polygon Volumes using Analyze Volume from Terrain Model

The calculate volume tool only works on a single target polygon. If multiple polygons are present it's quite tedious to calculate one-by-one and manually sum the totals. For example in a bathy survey of a channel it's common to have different area...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 3 Future consideration

Calculate Component Quantities for Linear and Surface templates

To get the component quantities and document them, it is not possible to get a table for linear templates and surface templates as quick and easy as with the corridors. - Corridor. You can go to Explorer, OpenRoads Model, right click in a corrido...
4 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Profile by Best Fit > Convert to Profile Rule requires ability to set vertical curve type

Create a best fit vertical profile and then convert to a Profile Rule. It only creates parabolas ... we need the ability to create a circular vertical curve. The profile by Best Fit command may only utilize parabolas, but they ONLY work with circu...
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Export to DWG: Civil Labeller and field texts

We need an option to drop field and labels text to plain text. After exorting to AutoCAD, when using Civil Lables or Field texts that extract values from civil elements, specially terrains, sometimes the text turn out with a 0.00 when opening the ...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Ability to annotate coordinates of any location in a model

Currently you can annotate the coordinates of an object like a point or a line. I would like a tool to label the coordinates of any location in a model without needing to connect to a point or line. The annotation should support using Text Styles ...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Lock stationing to an XY coordinate.

As an MX user, we had the ability to lock stationing to an xy coordinate in an alignment. Please add this ability in ORD. An example use would be as follows: the user has a complex horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and wants to append a ta...
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Land Use Areas from a Reference

It would be nice to extract Land Use Data from a reference file rather than requiring the Land Use Areas always be drawn in the main drainage design file. This would both cut down on clutter in the design file and also allow larger areas to be del...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities 1 Future consideration

Ability to Separate Tangents / Gradients from Adjacent Tangents / Gradients after Alignment Simplification

When making alignment modifications by manipulating tangents (Horizontal Alignments) or gradients (Vertical Alignment) we prefer to limit extents of changes to only one tangent / gradient at a time. This is possible, when alignments are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / User Interface 1 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 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration