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Catchment Sub Areas need to be more accessible

A catchment's subareas is ONLY accessible by opening the subareas collection. This limits the ability to streamline various workflows. At minimum sub areas need to be accessible from the following: Flex Tables - The current flex tables will only...
5 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Annotate element item type on cross sections and profiles

I want to be able to annotate the element item type properties attached to linear features displayed on cross sections and profiles using annotation groups. Currently any text favorites created from item types do not resolve to show the item type ...
6 days ago in Annotation / Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Additional SUE / SUDA Configuration Variables

Currently, Drainage and Utilities feature definitions get captured via the CIVIL_CONTENTMANAGEMENTDGNLIBLIST variable within the workspace. Many configurations often use wildcards and file names that lump together features of D&U with road, ra...
12 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Needs review

Export Drainage Model to 2D Linework

It would be nice to be able to export a drainage network into 2D linework that can be edited for plan sheets. Currently, we don't use our modeled files directly in our plan sheets as we cannot adjust the conduit line styles and it takes longer to ...
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Needs review

Multiple Vehicle Cross-Section Outlines

Unlike BRT, ORD does not allow defining different cross-section outlines for the front, middle, and rear of a vehicle. This capability is critical for accurate clearance assessments, especially for vehicles with varying geometry (e.g., tapered cab...
13 days ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Inside Rail Pivot for Swept Envelope

In railway design, the standard practice is to pivot at the inside (low) rail when applying cant and generating swept envelopes. Currently, OpenRail Designer does not provide an option for this; users must create complex templates with point contr...
13 days ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Create Existing CL from Rails or from regression line

Existing Center Line is critical information. We must be able to create such a line in an easy way without having to apply workaround, 3/4 steps workflow or MDL.It means H+V+existing cantIn the past we had a single box to check to create this exis...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Needs review

Ability to Place a Conduit/Pipe "Without" a Node

Many times, we have conduits/pipes that simply daylight a surface and drain on to the ground or into a pond. Please add the ability to place conduit/pipes "Without" the need of a Node. I understand that we can create a sort of null point/node that...
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Possibility to add/remove/change long sleepers sets

Possibility to add/remove/change length of long sleepers sets in turnouts that are placed in a geometry. When you are working with existing geometry and there are turnouts with too long sleepers sets or if you by mistake place a turnout that has a...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Existing cant annotation on profile OR any regression point information on profile

Existing cant annotation is often, if not always, required on profile drawing. Actually we must project rails onto the profile, create aliases, to extract level differences between existing rails whereas the information is fully available from reg...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Needs review