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Include ability to model curtain wall under end bent

Please include ability to model curtain wall under end bent, similar to backwall. This curtain wall is a great tool when working on projects when new fill required to place is not significant enough to just an independent retaining wall but is sig...
about 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

LFD Load Rating in LEAP Steel

NYSDOT requires that all plan sets include an LFD Load Rating. Until this ability is added to LEAP Steel, we cannot adopt OpenBridge fully and must continue doing our steel design in different software.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer 2 Future consideration

Rules between reference files

Indicate in the reference manager if Civil Rules exist between files. When attempting to create a snap rule to an element that is in a reference file display a warning message. Prevent circular reference errors created by snap rules between refere...
10 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to automatically generate 3d linear features/Linestrings from OBM elements

Generation of 2d decorations and solids are insufficient for full coordination with road geometry teams and they regularly need to provide 3d linestring geometry as part of the roadway design for bridge barriers, wingwall edges for earthworks, etc...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Implement a SWITCH/CASE function for item type expressions.

A SWITCH/CASE function would be easier to use than having to nest multiple IF functions.
about 2 years ago in Item Types / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Bring back Active Chain Control or Similar Tool

In GeoPak, the Active Chain Control tool was very useful for selecting a particular chain or alignment and having the location information (station, offset, etc.) be display in a dialogue box. The location information would live track with the loc...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 6 Already exists

Allow the use of Guidelines to be used for advanced deck for barrier placement.

Please allow the use of guidelines of a deck template to be used for barrier placement. Right now it's limited to regular decks only. WIth advanced deck, only the Alignment can be used.
about 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 1 Future consideration

PMM non-linear springs

We would like to ask a PMM non-linear spring for modeling Plastic Hinges for reinforced-concrete Columns. This PMM springs are used for modeling the Moment-Rotation (M-R) behavior for different axial loads (P). The PMM spring should be able to cap...
11 months ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Abutment analysis methodology

The substructure module built into OpenBridge seems to analyze an abutment wall stem as a column. A toggle would be useful to consider it more like a wall in some instances. The magnitude of vertical load on an abutment stem can often be insignifi...
11 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Apply Multiple Deck Point Controls by Station Ranges

There are many circumstances where the same Deck Template point needs to be Point Controlled onto multiple linear features. Currently the user needs to either create multiple decks/support lines or create Geometry that traces the original and join...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration