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Bring back "Depends On" in the Properties

It is my understanding that this was removed in the 2024 version due to general confusion, but I'd like it to be added back. If it is made toggleable, it can be turned off by default to avoid the aforementioned confusion, and this allows those tha...
about 1 month ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Labels Every 100' and Ability to Pick Start Point

I created the Civil Label for the 100’ elevation along a geometric element, but I want to be able to pick where the labeling starts and not at the start of the geometric element. I want to establish a target to start the 1st label at a prompted cl...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Seperating the "add point control/parametric constraint" and "delete point control/parametric constraint" buttons within the corridor objects tool.

Many times a day I accidently delete a point control or parametric constraint when I'm trying to add. The buttons are extremely close, is there a way to move the delete button further away?
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Transpose Element option to Create a Copy.

When using the Transpose tool, the software makes a copy of the element you are selecting to transpose, and that is the element that is reversed, leaving behind the original underneath. Most of the time I do not want a copy of the transposed eleme...

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 Des...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Corridor Objects Dialog box to stay put after creating parametric constrains/point controls and etc.

The corridor objects dialog box is currently disappearing whenever you try to add parametric constraints/point controls/curve widening/end condition exception/external reference and etc. This would be much better if we could have at least make the...
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Annotate Rock and Undercut in XS

When you create earthwork, there is a way to create an additional quantities for rock excavation and unsuitable material. We are wanting to be able to run the earthwork EAV report to have those quantities in EAV format, and then be able to annotat...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Need Named Boundaries or Multi-Point Cross Sections that can turn for secondary alignments

Currently, when secondary alignments are used, the cross sections are always based perpendicular to the primary alignment. We need the ability for named boundaries (or some other means of creating multi-point cross sections) to understand when sec...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration

Remove all dupplicates of button...

4 properties, 2 zooms, all bunch of desactivated button in the superelevation editor (2 copy, 2 paste, 3 zoom, Make graphical edit...)
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

[Terrain] Flow arrows with slope percentages

Need ability to toggle slope percentage annotations above/below the flow arrows on terrains. This will help with design and analysis. An option could be added in the flow arrow properties, please refer to the attached snapshot.
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration