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[Terrain] Flow arrows with slope percentages

Need ability to toggle slope percentage annotations above/below the flow arrows on terrains. This will help with design and analysis. An option could be added in the flow arrow properties, please refer to the attached snapshot.
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 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

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.
about 3 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Reports 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

Provide option for automatically generated contours to be printed.

The current contour display options for terrains are limited when it comes to printing. It would be useful to have an option that allows automatically generated contours to be printed, with formatting that can be easily adjusted.
3 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Nesting Depth Control When Creating Sheets

The nesting depth on newly created Drawing and Sheet Models defaults to 99. I have set up my sheets seeds the way that I would like the nesting depth to be set. For Plan and Profile Sheets, the Default model of these sheets acts as the "container ...
5 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRoads Designer 0 Planned

Compound Curve with Spiral Segments Tool

A geometry tool is needed to easily create a Compound Horizontal Curve with Spiral segments. Having the ability to quickly compute a Spiral-Curve-Spiral-Curve-Spiral between two tangents would be greatly beneficial to the track design work we do. ...
about 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

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...

Menu options should be same regardless of where User clicks and how much they zoom in

Please see attachment. Bentley needs to ensure same menu options should be available whether the user right-clicks at the top, bottom, or side, AND regardless of the zoom level used. Edit components should not go missing. -JMS
2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration