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LBS add a special distribution factor for deflection (AASHTO Art. 2.5.2.6.2)

Under commentary C2.5.2.6.2: "For straight girder system bridge, this is equivalent to saying that the distribution factor for deflection is equal to the number of lanes divided by the number of beams"
16 days ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration
118 VOTE

Separate vertical alignment model from horizonal geometry

One of my biggest pain points about ORD is if the horizontal geometry is dropped or broken, the vertical is consequently lost as well. This creates significant rework from a design and plan production standpoint (connected named boundaries). One w...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Batch or Bulk Export to IFC

To export IFC data from a DGN, we currently have to manually export each DGN. It would be extremely helpful to be able to export multiple files at one time, similar to the way the batch converter can convert multiple files to DWG format.
9 days ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Copy Event Point List

The ability to copy an existing event point list in the Event Point List Dialog for Openroads. There are similar ideas for different products being requested.
9 days ago in Geometry / Import/Export / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration
103 VOTE

Ability to Update Annotation Groups

Currently for drawing model annotation groups, if the user wants to update the annotation, they would need to remove the outdated annotation group, which would removal all annotation groups, and then reapply all annotation groups. It would be nice...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Open API to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies.

It would be extremely helpful, if we were able to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies so that automation of the creation of new 'Custom Drainage Features' every time a drainage structure had a different bottom box (...
about 2 years ago in All Other / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

import parcels, survey chains, lines, curves, spirals from GPK

Since GEOPAK is no longer supported. I have heard from Bentley time and time again that we can get to our data out of the GPK and import it into ORD. BUT this is only true for chains, profiles and points. What about Parcels? survey chains? lines? ...
almost 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Planned

Cut and Fill Lines Connect

In the previous Bentley software our DOT used, the software was able to connect the cut and fill lines when transitioning from cut and fill between template drops. Currently the only way that is possible is to have a feature name override on the c...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Circle registration marks needed for Zund cutter

The older 10.02.00.11 version had both circular and rectangular registration mark options. FDOT's Zund cutter does not work with the rectangular registration marks, and they need the circular registration mark option for cutting signs. Workflow in...
18 days ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Future consideration

port all Regression tools from OpenRail to OpenRoads

There are some regression tools that were ported from openRail into openRoads in previous releases. However, they didn't port every regression tool. Most notably, they did not port the Vertical regression tools for creating a regressed profile. We...
6 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Regression Analysis 1 Future consideration