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Remember the Last‑Used Civil Label in Civil Labeler

Description Why it’s useful: During plan production, users place the same label repeatedly. Requiring them to navigate the full label tree every time adds unnecessary friction and breaks workflow momentum. Who benefits: High‑volume plan producti...
5 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

View Independent for Civil Labeler with Leader

Currently, the View Independent option for Civil Labeler is not available for labels with leaders. Expanding this option to include labels with leaders would be highly beneficial. It would allow labels to be placed in the Default model for the ent...
11 months ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow users to see horizontal and vertical alignments while in view only mode.

Wise users open files in read-only mode when they don’t intend to change the file. ORD should promote good file practice to allow us to view geometry when we are in view only mode.
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add option to HorizontalAlignmentCheckIntegrity.xsl report to ignore angular differences for PIs with no curves.

In the InRoads Check Integrity command, the command would report "OK" for any PIs that did not have curves. We would like the ORD check integrity reports to not report issues at a PI if there are no curves present.
almost 3 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Ability to Copy Corridors and Parts of Corridors

Developing projects requires many iterations involving multiple alternatives. For simpler projects it may be feasible to manually duplicate a corridor but as corridors get more complex this method becomes more cumbersome and prone to error. When d...
almost 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to Create Terrain Model from Multiple Toggled Field Books

There is currently not a way to create a terrain model from toggling multiple field books under the Survey Data tab. Users can currently use the Create Terrain Model From Field Book Selection Set tool to create a terrain from an element selection ...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to Introduce the Remapping Capability on Terrain Model’s Source Path

There is currently not a way to remap the terrain model’s source path in ORD. This capability is needed to be able to push survey data updates via rewriting a .tin file to then update from source (sourcing back to the rewritten .tin file with surv...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Display Rule (Display Style)

An option to add line style scale in the Display Rule. We have a customized line style for our Storm Conduits. We scale them in the element templates according to size of the pipe. (also an idea, option to use element template for the Display Rule).
8 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Needs review

Text Favorite Use Dimension Style Setting

When a Text Favorite is set to "Active Settings" it looks at the file setting and is not reading active dimension style setting from the element template or the tool settings. According to MicroStation the Active Setting is set by the dimension st...

Need ability of having different Spiral Types in OpenRoads Designer

Need to have an option of having different spiral curve types in OpenRoads Designer mainly cubic parabola which is similar in OpenRail Designer. This is also required to satisfy new expressway design specification as per table no 2.4 in clause no ...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration