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Toggle Background On Text

In civil labeler and the place text tools, it would be useful to have a "Background" toggle option for text. Right now, if we want text to have a background, we have to set it in the text style. Since there are varying situations where we want or ...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Equilateral turnouts as a separate element with its own geometry for both main and deviating track

Currently, in order to create en equilateral turnout, one needs to recreate one of the branches (with exact geometry) and then add the branch part. This process has a lot of inconsistencies and sometimes results in unexpected geometries ( transiti...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Future consideration

Allow Esri Shapefile Field Name to be longer than 10 characters

When exporting a drainage flex table in ESRI format, the default field names include names longer than 10 characters. This throws the error message: "The Esri Shapefile field name <Middle_Flow> for column <Flow (Middle)> cannot be long...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Select Multiple Annotation Definitions Simultaneously While Building Annotation Group

While building an Annotation Group, Annotation Definitions have to be selected one at a time in a temporary window. Make the definition selection window persistent, and allow multiple definitions to be simultaneously selected for addition to the a...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Support UNC paths and writing a conditional in the OrganizationSetting.cfg file

MnDOT would like to set a network location for the standard libraries. This way every user gets the current design. OpenRoads SignCAD does not currently support UNC paths or writing a conditional in the OrganizationSetting.cfg file. It seems illog...
over 2 years ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Future consideration

Place Template from template library in a drawing

We create typical cross sections as part of our plan set. I've seen guidance from Bentley on how to use different parts of the 3D corridor model to cut cross sections in specific places and then use those cross sections as the typical cross sectio...
almost 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 5 Needs review

Add option to create Mass Haul Diagram from End Area Volumes.

Currently the Mass Haul Diagram volumes are generated from 3D mesh volumes and the End Area Volumes report calculates the volumes from the cross section areas. Hence there is a difference between the Mass Ordinate values between the two reports. I...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Profile Overlap

Would be beneficial to be to add overlaps to profile named boundaries so they match the plan sheets. Would like for this to be an automated option when creating profile named boundaries based from the Plan sheet named boundaries.
almost 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail ConceptStation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Bevel vertical face of stiffeners/connection plates at web

When the connection plates or stiffeners are placed, they are appearing half-embedded into the web with an equivalent gap on the opposing edge. For it to actually be correct, the plates should be beveled to match the vertical face of the web.
almost 3 years ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Allow LFD substructure analysis with an LRFD Superstructure in LEAP Steel

When performing a superstructure replacement, it is common to design the proposed superstructure in LRFD but then analyze the existing substructure capacity in LFD. Currently with LEAP Steel, because the superstructure was designed in LRFD the sub...
almost 3 years ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review