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Ability to append, join, or combine individual alignments and have it hold the sub alignment stationing, which would create station equations

In Geopak, we had the ability to take individual alignments and create an overall alignment from a subset of alignments and it would hold the individual stationing for each alignment, creating station equations. There is no way to do this in ORD u...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Text favorite to honor math expressions

What I envision, would be the ability to define Math within a Text Favorite. So, let us say that "[[" would define the start of math in a text favorite. A text favorite could be created in that the value displayed, is math from element properties....
over 3 years ago in Annotation 4 Future consideration

To place concrete diaphragms placed between the beam ends and then skewed between the beams transversely as per TDOT requirements

I need to place a Pier Diaphragm that does not encompass the beams inside the concrete diaphragm. TDOT requires 18" between the beam ends at the piers. The Diaphragm is placed between the beam ends and then skewed between the beams transversely, ...
about 2 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Need COGO feature parity with InRoads and Geopak

In order to comply with the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions "Minimum Standards", the Kansas Department of Transportation is asking for an enhancement to OpenSite Designer CONNECT Edition software for Right of Way workflows as follows: ...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / User Interface 6 Future consideration

Allow for custom line styles to be synced with "update from dgn lib"

When a custom line style is updated in the workspace, it does not update existing files that have used the previous line style (of the same name). The only workaround is to: Manually delete all of the line styles you want to update Remove the defi...
about 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 1 Future consideration

Allow the road slope to exceed the gutter cross slope

My state agency commonly uses gutters with a 4% cross slope. The maximum superelevation rate is 7%. The gutter slope stays at 4% in this situation. Spread does not compute in this scenario because "A depressed gutter must have a Gutter Cross Slope...

Collision-Free cross section annotation

​​There appears to be a feature in OpenRail and previously was in InRoads where you could specify in the Annotation Group to have the annotation shift if there was an overlap with another annotation but can't find the same feature in OpenRoads Des...
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add "Set Feature Definition" Tool to the Feature Definition Tool Bar

The "Set Feature Definition" Tool should be added to the Feature Definition Tool Bar rather than having to go digging around to find it. It coincides with "Match Feature Definition" which is already part of the tool bar.
about 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Batch create CIP Concrete Box

The main line consists primarily of CIP variable XS simple box girders. We are struggling with the limitations of the Bridge Wizard and hope to see these pain points addressed in the next update. Pier/Substructure: The Bridge Wizard does not suppo...
about 1 month ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to Expression Builder

Interface Currently, writing expressions in expression builder is only slightly better than writing code in notepad. The interface could be enhanced similar to Visual Studio with colorized classes, methods, and properties, colorized brackets with ...