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Annotate station of any alignment/feature in cross section

Loss of functionality from SS4 which had the ability to annotate "Station" or "Feature Station". I am cutting sections for a divided roadway and wishes to annotation the station of each centerline feature in his cross sections. Currently th...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Modify the LLS part when placing a turnout.

Currently one could add an LLS part on a turnout. Unfortunately this is a standard value. Sometimes, when creating a horizontal geometry, it is necessary to ''shorten'' the LLS part (aka to place a fewer amount of long sleepers that a standard LLS...
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Create a tool that constructs transitions between different types of rail sections

Sometimes in track design, one must use different types of rails, say 60kg and 50kg rails. One could weld them and grind them together but this is a crude method. In Sweden they use what is called a transition rail, which in principle contain a sm...
4 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Ability to Customize Superelevation Colors

As a highway designer I want the ability to customize the colors used for the superelevations.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Add ability to create an Event Point list in the OpenRoads Designer SDK.

I would like to programmatically create a new EventPoint list for an alignment. Looking through the Bentley.CifNET.GeometryModel.Tools.Helpers methods, I found GetEventPointList(Alignment) that returns a List<Bentley.CifNET.GeometryModel.KeySta...
about 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Calculate Component Quantities for Linear and Surface templates

To get the component quantities and document them, it is not possible to get a table for linear templates and surface templates as quick and easy as with the corridors. - Corridor. You can go to Explorer, OpenRoads Model, right click in a corrido...
11 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Profile by Best Fit > Convert to Profile Rule requires ability to set vertical curve type

Create a best fit vertical profile and then convert to a Profile Rule. It only creates parabolas ... we need the ability to create a circular vertical curve. The profile by Best Fit command may only utilize parabolas, but they ONLY work with circu...
11 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Need to have an option for manual/automatic corridor processing

There is an existing option to deviate rules on a corridor. This is inconvenient and difficult to use because of the workflow associated this it: select A corridor -> deactivate rules, then select A corridor -> enable rules -> process (th...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Viewing Corridor Object and Dynamic Cross Section Tools in Read-Only

I sometimes have to look at another user's Corridor file to get additional details. If I reference in their file or open it read only, I'm not able to open up Corridor Objects to see what template they are using. It would be useful to allow me to ...
4 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Designing Geometry using multiple spiral type

Currently we can set up one spiral type for one DGN. If the geometry needs to be designed using different spiral type, we need the flexibility to allow the application of multiple spiral type in one DGN
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review