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Contact (3rd) Rail tools

It would be great to have a set of tools to model a contact (third) rail - this is used by many transit systems as a traction power source for trains. There are enough nuances to the design of this rail that it warrants a dedicated tool with the a...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Key Station with civil rule

Key stations can now solely be places with a station input. In many cases the location of your Key Stations depends on the position of other elements, like geometry for example. Being able to give key stations a civil rule - like the Persist Snap ...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Already exists

Import & Export Entire Annotation Group/Definition Library

We would really benefit from having the option to Export & Import "Entire" Annotation Group/Definition Libraries in the same way we can Export/Import feature Symbologies & Feature Definitions. Currently we are limited to Export/Import only...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Apply an Annotation Group to multiple named boundaries at a time

In cross section creation it would be helpful to batch select a group of drawing models to apply a specific annotation group to (after drawing models are created from named boundaries). For example, we usually have driveway cross sections or half ...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

External model checking process - by possibly running a report to identify where 3d conduit string lines have been placed - i.e soffit, centre, invert, crown or base, this will ensure all output data of conduits are consistent for construction.

This is useful to enable a) - checks to be carried out, b) - to identify possible conduits that require amending - to align with all others. This will enable consistent and accurate output data to be produced, that can be used to construct from.
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

3D Clip in Corridor Clip

Very useful in Rock Tunnel Connections, It should work similar to Mesh Subtract in MicroStation, but should be a part of the Corridor information, like todays Corridor Clip is.
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 4 Future consideration

Text Favorite Attribute Pair Field Settings for Survey Points/Lines

Field Sub Types in the Text Favorite Manager for Survey Point and Linear features do not seem to have the option for prefixes or suffixes. This would be handy. I have attached a video.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Terrain Display Option/Creation without Facet Smoothing

The way Openroads currently displays terrain models is not very defined. We need to have the option to create terrains without the use of Facet Smoothing so they will display similar to how InRoads does. I've attached a sample of an InRoads Terrai...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 8 Future consideration

To allow edit speed in cant editor

at the moment, in Open Rail CE 2022 Release 1, we can edit speed in cant editor . it is not comfortable to have two windows (speed table and cant editor) when we design cant, speed. better solution to have it in one window
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Place a line between two imported points

OpenRoads should have a Command that place a line between two imported points (.asc, .crv, .txt file) V8i does have a command that will place a line between two imported points. After importing the points into the drawing, you click on the "line c...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Already exists