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Add a “Chord" Toggle to all the Horizontal Curve Tools

To have to go to the Back Stage and select Settings ==> File ==> Design File Settings ==> Civil Formatting ==> Degree of Curve Method to change from an Arc Defined Curve to Chord Defined Curve is not a good workflow. In our State we ca...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to edit Annotation Groups in any model

It's a little cumbersome to keep going back and forth between models when developing annotation groups. An alternative could be to be able to select the geometry that is shown as the example when in the annotation group manager.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Need to have an option for manual/automatic corridor processing

There is an existing option to deviate rules on a corridor. This is inconvenient and difficult to use because of the workflow associated this it: select A corridor -> deactivate rules, then select A corridor -> enable rules -> process (th...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Cross Section Station Label Precision

We would like a way to set even stationing to one precision and odd stations to another. Even station, 0 decimals and odd station 2 decimals in the same run.
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Survey Cell Rotation within an sqlite file

If a survey cell is rotated in a dgn file that houses a filedbook and that fieldbook is then exported to an .sqlite file the survey cell does not retain it's rotation.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

GEOPAK-like Drainage Tools

I would like to see tools added to ORD that would mimic the Drainage Tools found in GEOPAK. Specifically, I would like to be able to visualize Drainage Patterns. I envision this be something that could be added to a Terrain Feature Definition, sim...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration

Abutment analysis methodology

The substructure module built into OpenBridge seems to analyze an abutment wall stem as a column. A toggle would be useful to consider it more like a wall in some instances. The magnitude of vertical load on an abutment stem can often be insignifi...
6 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Creating virtual signaling elements in ORD with the tool Equipment

Curently is not possible to represent signalling virtual elements that are related to an area extent and depend from 2 elements or Pk start/end. For example a neutral section, or emergency stop area, or track circuit.
over 1 year ago in Low Voltage Assets / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Automate the assignment of a node's sump offset based on largest connecting pipe's wall thickness

We are looking for a workflow where the Sump depth value can be set to the thickness of the "largest pipe" connected to a node. When the user places a node, if there is an option to set the sump depth to the thickness of the pipe, then it would au...

Staged Construction Optionality

Staged construction is a very common construction methodology. The current process of modeling staged construction in OBM is to model each stage as separate bridges. This creates problems when modeling a steel I-girder bridge as the cross-frames b...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Needs review