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Create Turnout Profile

Currently, the workflow to achieve this is in general case (including canted track) where profile = lower rail elevation is : Create lower rail of branch line: horizontal offset create rails on main: create rails command Extend slope defined by ma...
5 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...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Needs review

Add Begin Station Button in Geometry Builder GUI

Allow users to define station value for beginning alignment and equation stations inside Geometry Builder GUI.
2 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Want the Edit Complex Terrain Model to show missing terrains

suppose a Complex terrain is created by combining multiple terrains. At some point thereafter if one of the individual terrains is deleted, if the "Edit Complex Model" tool is used the deleted terrain is simply gone. There's no indication that it ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Export Geometry XML from Read Only File

We have many users on the survey side that need to quickly jump in a design file and export out an alignment xml for staking. Non-Roadway users do not have write access to these files and the export geometry tool cannot be used in a read only file...
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add option to set forward/backward depth and forward/backward display while creating the cross section sheets.

When making named boundaries we were not able to select any settings or seed files that would let us select the options for forward/backward depth and forward/backward display. This means we had to go into each named boundary individually. Its imp...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Active Terrain Elevation to Civil Analyze tool

Many users regularly need to get the existing elevation at a specific alignment location and there is currently no quick or easy way to do this. Adding additional Active Terrain elevation information on the Civil Analyze tool would give users quic...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Implement OpenBuildings CATALOG object approuch to OpenSite

OpenBuildings CATALOGs make it very easy to manage and retrieve data from multiple elements. Really making the I from BIM work. There is nothing similiar to that in OpenSite or OpenRoad, but it should! A very simple example is ifc shema class defi...
2 months ago in Modeling 0 Future consideration

Composite Section Forces for Shell & Beam Elements

Every other software that we use has an option to "compose" the forces from an individual set of shell and beams cross section at a specified location using a given effective shell width, for example two that I use: LARSA has "Compound Element For...
2 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Planned

DU: add drop calculation to node invert depending on lowest conduit wall thickness

Some times, most common with concrete conduits, the node invert needs to have a drop in reference to the lowest pipe to acomodate its wall. This would later be filled to match.For construction and BIM purpose, this difference is important. Special...
almost 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Already exists