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Ability to create a 3D ruled element when two gradings cut each other

When two gradings cut each other, for example mine corridor grading and a lateral ramp grading, you can use the Define target aliasing tool to use one of the two gradings as a target for the corridor containing the other grading to obtain the 3d l...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Import Cant from Excel/CSV

The ability to import Cant values from an Excel Spreadsheet, CSV file, etc.
over 2 years ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Set Item Types and their attributes in the Template Library

Currently item types and their attributes would need to be programmed into to read a component or selected manually after an element is displayed. If the templates in the template library had the ability to set these selections and values ahead of...
over 2 years ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 4 Future consideration

Georeferenced Sheet Models

Sheet models do not inherit the coordinate system from the Design model when created. The goal is to be able to create a georeferenced pdf that lays flat on aerial photography.

Exporting Field Book with Observational Data

I process survey data for the Maine Department of Transportation. We have been transitioning from InRoads to OpenRoads for about a year now and are currently using OpenRoads Designer 2023. Myself and others in the Department are seeing frequent co...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads ConceptStation / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Needs review

Infill grading tool

Provide a tool to quickly create infield gradings. When creating infield gradings, often we only to include part of a geometry element instead of the entire element. Because the terrain from element tool doesn't have the option to only import part...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Additional Measure and Draw tools for Dynamic Sections

I would like a set of tools that I can measure and draw slopes with in the dynamic sections. I can use temporary dimensions for the active corridor elements only, but I would like to get the slopes of elements in adjacent corridors that are in my ...
6 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Triangulation Limit Shape to "Create Terrain by Graphical Filter"

We have issues with creating a terrain by graphical filter. The command grabs all filtered features in a file(s) and adds them to a terrain. The problem with this approach is areas with a gap are ignored and triangles span gaps causing one large t...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration

Annotate the flow direction of a ditch in cross section drawing model.

Ability to annotate the flow direction of a ditch using an annotation group within a cross section drawing model. Currently the annotation exists only for plan view (See communities post here ). In Geopak we had a workflow to accomplish this task,...
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration

Invert Terrain Elevation

ASCII elevation data from hydrosurveys is delivered in positive depths making for an embankment instead of a channel. A function to multiply elevations by -1 would save a trip through Excel or a GIS program.
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration