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Text Favorites for Start/End Station and Start/End Offsets of Plan and Profile Lines

When working with plan elements or profile elements, I often find myself needing to find the Start Station and End Station of a line element or a profile element. A text favorite would be useful for placing text for this information as annotation,...
11 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

ORD Design File Settings>Working Unite>Resolution change tool

Is there a tool in ORD that can change the Design File Settings>Working Unite>Resolution and scale the model so that the model remains at the correct scale after the resolution change. Is there such a tool? If not, that is my design enhancem...

Dimension display for skewed slopes

Would like to be able to have slope dimensions show a suffix of (SK) when showing skewed slopes or be able to define it to display with dual dimensions. The dual dimensions would show the actual plotted skewed slope 5.74:1(SK) and the designed slo...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Include Civil Labels in Pen Table Element Selection Criteria

A client requires background fill in certain annotation notes, which is controlled by a pen table definition. Civil Labels are not included as a selectable Element Selection Criteria Type in the pen table dialog. Text background is insufficient fo...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Elevation Mode "3D Element" as an option when placing points

We need to have the ability to place points by snapping to 3D elements (ORD Geometry & Regular Microstation Linework) This is how we give set out points to contractors for grading work. The only way to do this currently, is to choose Elevation...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability for Corridor Horizontal Parametric Constraints to be applied with Reverse Cubic Curves

In our legacy software we could quickly and easily apply a reverse cubic curve tapers for our designs without having to create Geometry and have our lane edges follow that - noting that the Geometry is not actually the required reverse cubic curva...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Geometry Point "Name &/or ID" as an option for "Columns to Add" When Reporting on Geometry Points

In order to create a "Set Out Point Table" which is dynamically linked to geometry points in a DGN, we first need to report on the Points. Currently for Geometry Points, there is No Option to include the Geometry Point Name or ID. This Needs to be...
12 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 1 Future consideration

When using Cross Section Navigator, ability to see what the respective named boundary in plan view

When using the Cross Section Navigator to review the XS, I would like the ability to see the named boundaries highlight according to the cross section that you are looking at. This was a feature in OpenRoads Technology.
12 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Create 3D by slope to terrain needs to have the option for the fill slope to be positive and vise versa for cut slope

When projecting a line to a terrain currently the only option for fill is down and cut is up. This needs to be a user selectable option. There are many cases where the proposed surface is above the existing ground yet the fill projection needs to ...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Store vertical/horizontal alignment of low points

A tool existed in Geopak that could pick out the low point of a cross section to the left and right of centerline and construct horizontal and vertical alignments from that. This essentially automated the creation of a ditch profile along an entir...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration