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Provide data sets for new software videos

Hello, What's new in ORD 2024 the videos are available, but the files that were used would help. Thanks, Ken
about 1 year ago in All Other 0 Needs review

Cross Section annotation: allows annotation of segments that are not ON TOP

It is often required to annotate slope along sublayers. Typical example is to annotate the top of the subballast in track design. The expression allows to do many things but it doesn't work as expected.Even you specify the point names such as L_Su...
about 1 year ago in Drawing Production 0 Future consideration

Create a Break Island Feature Type for Terrain Extraction

Much like the "Break Void" line where the elevation of the graphic is honored in the Terrain, a "Break Island" should also exist to prevent improper triangulation.
about 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Multiple alignment options

OpenRail now looks like it is behind the 12D Model, after removing good design functions in BRT. In OpenRail, it is hard to have multiple alignment options. For example, you can copy a horizontal design, it will carry a profile, but not cant desig...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Allow for Cross sections along an element

If I have a pipe and I need to cut a cross section along the pipe, And that pipe has a bend in it, I can't use the 2 point method, I need one that allows for bends and twists and turns. If the annotation is based on the type/purpose then swapping ...
over 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Tool to detect corrupt preference file

In ORD especially in Drainage and Utilities, corrupt preferences lead to inconsistent results. There is currently no way to detect a corrupt preference file so that it can be removed until a user notices a error in the design which is usually too ...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Need equivalent of InRoads input logger

There is a setting that can be turned on in Power InRoads V8i that keeps open a “results dialog box” that records all actions completed. It gives very basic information that we save as text file. The text is then imported into a Word document temp...
over 3 years ago in Survey 1 Future consideration

Buttons in Level Display that stores and restores the status of levels

Once stored, it will keep track of which levels are turned on and off at the time of pressing stored. Then pressing restore will return the levels back to what they were. This would be useful if you needed to turn off some levels but want to retur...
over 3 years ago in User Interface 1 Already exists

Import/Export Feature Definitions/Symbologies

We sometimes need to make updates to dozens or hundreds of feature symbologies and feature definitions, or we need to export a list of features for documentation/training purposes. Currently, we have to do this one by one, which is maddening. Plea...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 2 Future consideration

Merge/Unmerge End Condition (EC) Components

In ORD, In the Template window, would be beneficial to be able to create EC components made up a series of template points and "break" them into separate components and then merge them back together.
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration