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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 4, 2023

Collision-Free cross section annotation

​There appears to be a feature in OpenRail and previously was in InRoads where you could specify in the Annotation Group to have the annotation shift if there was an overlap with another annotation but can't find the same feature in OpenRoads Designer. Would be extremely helping with annotating cross sections as moving the labels by hand is really time consuming.

Civil Product Used OpenSite Designer, OpenRoads Designer, OpenRail Designer
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jan 5, 2023

    Acknowledged. Consider using Frame Annotation for Cross Sections. Frame Annotation supports collision detection.

  • Guest
    Mar 9, 2023

    DEFINITELY!! Due to the design of our channel templates, there are two layers that get annotated, with the resulting tow annotations directly on each other. And in many of our placement areas, some points end up so close that there are many overlaps as well. Add in the process when improving an existing channel, we then get 4 texts overlapping each other, in at least 5 places on each cross section!

    For now we have just removed all the dimensioning annotations from the active annotation group in the file and added manual dimensions where needed.

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Cross Section Label Clash Detection

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Offset and elevation labels often get drawn on top of each other. In Frame annotation there is an option for label clash detection. There is not such an option when labeling directly on the cross section.
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production 0 Future consideration
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Avoiding text conflicts in cross section annotation

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Would be really helpful to have the collision setting under point annotations in Annotation Groups for cross section labeling. It is currently only under frame annotations. Would also be nice to the collision setting recognize other text in the cr...
over 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration
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Frame annotations collisions

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Would be great to have all the different labels in a frame annotation recognize each other so they would avoid all collisions. Currently it appears that collisions are only recognized per line rather than all the frame annotations.
over 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration
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Cross Section annotation group controls

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This is an issue with ORD. We are having some issues with cross section annotations and developing an annotation group that can do collision free annotations (similar to how SS10 could do it) but we are having an issue where it is not trimming our...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration