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Update "Coordinate Grid" tool to allow more options

The "Coordinate Grid" tool needs to be updated to provide more options of the coordinate text placement allowing offsets & rotation etc. There should be, at a minimum, the same amount of control as we had with the InRoads tool "Place Coordinat...
11 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Text Favorite Naming

When an Annotation Definition is created in some cases it's useful to assign a text favorite to the annotation definition.....except for when you have text favorites with the same name. It would be nice if we could name text favorites with the sam...

Generate Report of Construction Pipe Lengths, Start-Stop Station, and Offsets based on Keymap

Would like to utilized Asset Manager or a similar tool to quickly obtain quantities for drainage structures, namely pipes, based on a keymap. The idea is to feed the tool a keymap file, a file containing shapes representing each sheet, the tool us...
12 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Flextable Export to Different Custom Excel Styles

Currently, Flextable can only export to csv with all colums. To make as proper report, user need to manually copy/paste the data. If the Flextable or software can export those nodes, conduits and hydrailuc properties, computation results to select...
12 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists

I need to create a quick profile that can be graphically manipulated BEFORE I create a corridor or do any detailed design.

The Bentley training videos all create a corridor and cross sections before a profile is created that can be edited. I need a profile of the existing ground BEFORE I do any detailed vertical profile design. That way I can see if it works visually ...
12 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Already exists

Civil Labeler from Corridor - Maintain Label when corridor feature definition changes

Right now, if we set a corridor feature definition to "Top Mesh" only display and then label that mesh with civil labeler, the label will break if we change the corridor feature definition again. This makes it hard to use the civil labeler with a ...
12 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

The ability to edit the positioning and placement of a dimension.

Once a dimension is placed, it seems to be set. The ability to place a dimension and then later be able to adjust it would be tremendous. Not only the ability to adjust the placement of the dimension, but the ability to adjust the placement of the...

Use GAGE instead of Center of Railhead for Template Placement when Creating Rails

The "Create Rails" tool utilizes the Rail Settings within the Design File. The gage lines are generated correctly based on the file settings, and so are the center of rail head lines, BUT these do not necessarily match the Template that is used to...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Add ability to update Element Templates that are already tied to Feature Symbologies

If you have Element Templates (ET) separate from your Feature Definitions / Feature Symbologies, ORD will make a local copy of an ET if it is used in a Feature Symbology. If that ET is updated, you must delete the ET and copy in the updated versio...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Already exists

Put the DEPTH point type back in the survey import

In InRoads there was an option to import data as depths instead of elevations. This is common practice for hydrographic data, as many dedicated programs have positive elevations being below 0, with elevations above as negatives. ASCII files can be...
about 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration