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Station Equations - Add expressions for item types

In item types, there are not expressions to pull the values of station equations. We can get the start/end station of an alignment, but not the station equations. It would be helpful to have an expression for station equation ahead[0], station equ...
about 1 month ago in Item Types / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Addition of Steel Bridge Templates into ConceptStation

ConceptStation needs Steel Bridge Templates as some regions predominantly utilize these types of bridges. Lack of steel bridge templates create a barrier for adoption of ConceptStation.
5 months ago in OpenRoads ConceptStation 0 Future consideration

Swept path tool - meshes and features for front, mid and rear positions of the vehicle for calculation step gapss

To design platform coping strings and walkway edge strings in tunnels To calculate step gaps between the vehicle step edge and walkway / platform edge For trucks, cars, and trains.
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Add nodes to existing drainage areas

Allow users to add additional nodes to a drainage area after it has already been placed using the place catchment feature. This would eliminate the need to recreate drainage areas when updates are required.
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Allow for Densify Horizontal Value and the Densify Vertical Value fields unlocked in order to give more user control to corridor stroking

We need improved stroking control for corridors. Currently stroking for corridors is defined by configuration variables i.e. CIVIL_DEFAULT_CURVE_STROKING and CIVIL_DEFAULT_PROFILE_STROKING, for horizontal and vertical curves respectively, which ta...
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 6 Future consideration

IFC export using the current active View element symbology

The current IFC exporter only exports using the actual elements symbology and ignores Level Overrides, Reference level symbology changes, etc. This makes it very difficult to control, requiring users to actually physically edit the elements in the...
over 3 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

ESRI ArcGIS import automatically handle unit conversions

We would like to see the ESRI ArcGIS import functionality enhanced to handle conversions on the fly without having to change the working units of the file. To provide context, we have a base DGN that has working and storage units for SVFT/SVIN. Th...
over 3 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Rapid Station-to-Station Advancement in Dynamic Cross Sections - ORD

InRoads SS2 roadway designer provided the function to click and hold the "next station" button to rapidly pan and fast forward through the corridor. OpenRoads Dynamic Cross Sections requires you to click and advance one station at a time which is ...
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Load DGNLIB files on demand

It would be very helpful if it were possible to load DGNLIB files on demand instead of automatically. One example of this is Sheet Seed DGNLIB files. We do not need those unless we are creating sheets, and creating sheets is a very, very small por...

Support spaces for bearing input in geometry tools

The geometry tools should allow for spaces between degrees minutes and seconds (N78 34 22E). This format is supported in the Geometry Builder but not the other geometry tools and the inconsistence is frustrating. Currently you have to enter either...
almost 4 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration