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Incorrect arc radius for turnout outer curve switch.

For turnout annotation, we need to add turnout with LLS Extension from the library. I know that it is possible to add LLS radius value for a defined curved turnout in the library, but for a complex project where there are a lot of curved turnouts ...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0

No subtraction of sleepers from ballast in corridor report

Corridor report does not subtract the volume of sleepers we added to the model from the ballast. I propose to add in the next version of ORD the possibility to subtract in the ballast the added sleepers.
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

No possibility to set the lower limit height of the profile

When creating profiles using ,,Named Boundary”, I cannot set the lower height limit of the profile. I propose to add in the next part of ORD setting the lower height limit if we want to make one drawing sheet from profile. This would help with the...
7 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer 1 Already exists

Customisable Track Design Parameters

There is currently no way to view what cant ratios and related cant values the software is applying to the alignment. Nor is there an option to change the maximum and minimum values applied. The software should have an option to amend the followin...
over 1 year ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Best Match Field Code Option

In ORD 10.11 and beyond the Best Match Field Code Option is now a drop-down of the following: Match exact: Feature Must equal an Alpha Code, only exact matches. For example if there is a Feature Definition with Alpha Code set to AP (Asphalt Paveme...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Ability to Hard-Code Precision and format for Station, Angle, Direction, etc. in XML reports

Using XML coding, we can control the precision of items for linear measurements and area measurements, bypassing the precision set by the user. This allows us to provide a more consistent report output. Currently it is not possible to do similar o...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 2 Future consideration

Zoom button with CivilAccudraw

It would be useful to have a zoom button (toggle) added to CivilAccudraw to automatically zoom to location of selected point. Example: type a station and it will zoom to that station. And maybe with capability to zoom 2D only or on multiple views ...

use of activate and exchange

We are finding that our default model of a sheeted file is being clipped to what appears to be a named boundary. We have figured out that it happens upon usage of the Exchange and Activate commands to move to another model or file. We have asked o...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Existing terrain element concept and modifiers

Vectorworks Landscape, Revit 2024 or Virtual Surveyor (a drone photogrammetry software) treat existing terrain in a extremely effective way, but all of them lack the volumes and tools from OpenRoads. What they do is genarating a solid from the exi...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
about 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration