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Set a view target point with the 3D Drive Through Tool

Ability to set a target point that the tool fixes on when driving down the alignment.
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Incorporate an ORD roadway designer window & file (.ord)

I'll be honest, the implementation ORD's strength is the software's weakest point. Being able to visually see the model in the 2D default model theoretically sounds great but the execution is costing too much time and money on medium to large scal...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Will not implement

View and Edit contents of a Terrain

Contents of terrains currently can't be viewed or edited. Features can be added and removed from a terrain but there is no viewable info on these elements. What elements is the terrain created from? What elements are used for triangulation? Survey...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Already exists

Drop Leading Zero in Civil Reports and Text Favorites

When utilizing civil geometry to create a parcel and then creating a Legal Description report within the Civil Reports, the software add a leading zero to a bearing of less than 10 degrees. For example, "North 07 degrees 09 minutes 12 seconds West...
8 months ago in Annotation / Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Change Text Favorite element attachment/selections

When using text favorites that are based on an alignment (station/offset), these text favorites can break if the alignment changes or is dropped or it can't find it. As far as I know, when this happens, there is no way to reassign the text favorit...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Project Geometry Using Active Feature Definition

When projecting various 2d geometry or 3d linear geometry the user is first required to set the active feature definition in the feature definition toolbar so that the project geometry shows up on the correct level, ect. It would speed things up i...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Set cant parameters before applying

Make the Cant tool more useful. Currently, we set the speed then apply cant and it spits out some random cant values, which are unrealistic. Then we can set the cant parameters and the software proves the values are unrealistic and we have to edit...
over 1 year ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 1 Needs review

Profile Grid Annotation - Place as Point Cell versus Graphic Cell

Currently, when a profile is annotated along the grid, the text is placed as a Graphic Annotation Cell. For right to left profiles, the easiest fix is to create Annotation Gro ups and Definitions that basically annotate the text backwards. Then, ...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Toggle Drainage Calculations On or Off

Applicable to OpenRoads Drainage, CivilStorm, and StormCAD Bentley drainage software tries to do too much / it tries to do ALL the calculations, even if you don’t want to. There have been times I have had separate drainage models: one for inlet sp...

Ability to plot CPT data in OpenRoads from OpenGround

Our partner Dataforensics has a project with an OpenGround user, HDR where they need to plot borehole data and CPT data in OpenRoads. Seems like they were able to do this in Civil3D but are now using ORD and want to do the same as the attached