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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...
26 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

New Variable to Control XSEC View Exaggeration Separate from Profile View Exaggeration

Consider adding a set of variables to control XSEC view exaggeration and default exaggeration separate from profile view exaggeration. This would be similar to how there is a separate set of variables for super exaggeration. Suggested variables wo...
about 2 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Annotation Group Text View Readable respect ACS

The text from annotation groups doesn`t follow the view rotation or the ACS. Just the global. This makes it unpratical and unhelpful.. Most plan sheets doesn`t follow the true north rotation and have an ACS. I don`t know if this is a bug or just n...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Allow Annotation Groups to use "Place Text Along" from MicroStation

For a plan annotation group, the ability for annotation text on arcs/curves and spirals/transitions to be placed to follow the geometry centreline curvature. The present options only allow the text to be placed as a tangential/perpendicular straig...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Annotate Multiple Terrain levels in Cross section frames annotation

In our legacy software packages we regularly annotated levels of multiple Terrain surfaces and the level differences between them in Cross sections and we look to have lost this functionality in ORD so far. This is especially useful to annotate th...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production 4 Future consideration

XSLT 2.0 Support - Civil Reports

Who would like to have more capable Civil Reports? Currently, OpenRoads Designer relies on the XSLT 1.0 Transformation Language for generating Civil Reports. This language was published in 1999, now 24 years ago. In 2009, a much more full-featured...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Enable hydraulic analysis for referenced files

For large projects, we need the ability to have multiple engineers working on the hydraulic model. We can achieve this by splitting the pipe network into multiple files and creating catchments in separate files. Doing so causes us to lose the abil...
about 2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Surface Template - "Process Corridor" similar tool

Just add the function to process the template again so it can be updated. This is a major issue when using surface templates with clipping boundaries. If I change the clipping boundary (a simple shape on the 2D model), I have to delete and reapply...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Line and Curve Tables for both Alignments and Parcels

Need tools for creating Line and Curve tables with smarts. Geopak D&C had a tool for creating line and curve tables. Why doesn't OpenRoads have tools for this? Needs to be smart so that as changes are made to the geometry the data in the table...
9 months ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Dont reset terrain Feature Definition when changing annotation scale

Since Bentley support told me this is works as designed and to submit an idea (when obviously this should just be fixed, yes FIXED because the way its working now is just wrong!) When you're in the model that contains the terrain, and you change t...
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration