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Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
over 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

annotate cut and fill sections in plan view

this would allow for automated text to get placed for cut and fill sections to denote which areas are which. This would assist with meeting SCDOT requirements. Previously, this could be accomplished in PowerGEOPAK with a SCDOT VBA.
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add an automated slider button for the object spacing box.

For newer users a quick design option in the (Object Spacing box) for simpler signs would be great. We typically space lines of text using 1/2 to 3/4 of the text height used. If the program could do this automatically with a slider button that sho...
over 2 years ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Compartir librerías entre ORD y ORLD sin necesidad de alinear con "civil file manager.exe"

Hola. Las empresas que utilizamos tanto ORD como ORLD y queremos compartir algunas de sus librerías entre ambos programas, nos encontramos con el problema que ambos programas no están alineados, porque tienen esquemas diferentes. Parece ser que en...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Need to annotate partial alignment lengths along turnout from point of switch to start/end

Users need a way to annotate the same way SS2 would annotate with the Switch Height Plan command. Partial lengths along the alignment need to be annotated, but there is not a way to do this in OpenRail. The workaround is to create a dummy alignmen...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Ability to Annotate Sweep Angle in Vertical In Plan Annotation

Currently the Sweep Angle can not be annotated using the Vertical in Plan annotation group. Please add the Sweep Angle in the Vertical in Plan annotations.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotate element (horizontal/vertical) information on each cut sheet if the same element is on multiple sheets.

While creating cut sheets, if any element (horizontal or vertical) is on multiple sheets then the element information is populated automatically on all the sheets the element is coming on. It would avoid manual work and also reduce changes of miss...
almost 4 years ago in Annotation 0 Already exists

Open .sgn files in multiple windows

In the older version of SignCAD (32-bit) the .sgn files can be opened in multiple windows, but the newer 64-bit versions do not allow it anymore, by design. If you have to create multiple signs with similar specs it is more convenient to have thes...
over 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / Signs 0 Future consideration

Additional command/tool in Openroads for deleting segments/s in horizontal alignment with profile

This will be helpful especially when the certain alignments are very long, and you only need to trim segments. Currently, the viable workaround is to copy that alignment and use either Project Profile to Element tool to join the vertical alignment...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Named Boundary tool should respect leading zeroes

It seems a fairly simple thing and would help in general organization of Named Boundaries and indivicual sheets that are created from them. Most users are trained to use leading zeroes in the naming of various items and yet this tool does not reco...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production 1 Future consideration