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Add The Ability To annotate Terrain Slopes At A Grid Similar To The InRoads Tool "View Slope Vectors"

We need the ability to display terrain slopes at a specified grid interval. This technique is used to present to other stakeholders (non ORD users) for analysis and confirmation that all the slopes of a terrain meet design criteria. InRoads had a ...
about 2 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Annotate Height/Offset difference from Multiple Stratum in Cross Section

Currently, Drawing annotation for Cross Section is only available for Ground Z and (design) Z. If there are multiple stratum and terrain models, no direct option to annotate the height/offset difference from design to other stratum, or stratum (te...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Reflect template for template drop

It would be very helpful if we could reflect a template while assigning it to a template drop. Templates currently can only be placed in the direction they were created, from template origin "out". This requires a duplication of templates, as sepa...
about 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Apply cut/fill annotation to surface templates

When creating a cut/fill End Area Volumes table on cross sections, the annotation does not work for surface templates. If there is no corridor in the cross section, it will not even place an EAV Table. The cut/fill EAV tool works and displays the ...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Create KMZ files that allow geometry annotation on export.

This would allow annotation on Geometry to export to KMZ files. Currently you have to drop status on all text annotation on geometry to be able to see it in a KMZ file.
almost 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet

It would be great if ORD had the capability to connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet to be able to calculate spread and bypass at the inlet. Currently the workaround is to connect the channel to a Generic Outfall at the edge of the inlet...
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Text Favorite for Event Point Description

Need the ability to create a Text Favorite for the Description Field of an Event Point.
about 3 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Create 3D Automatically should inherit elevations from civil points if you draw a civil line and snap to the points

For detail grade areas it would be nice to place points in plan view and snap lines to those points. The lines would have annotation groups assigned to them to label the slope and distance between the points. Grades could then easily be tweaked by...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Re-associate turnout to an alignment

When you create a new alignment, break a alignment and lose the turnouts or import a geometry it would be good to be able to re-associate or change the alignment to which a turnout are associated/connected to.For instance when I´m working with a c...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 1 Planned

Join Function in Table Editor Function similar to in Bentley Rail Track Horizontal Check Integrity Box

The join function is not available to join two or more straights with the same bearing that falls under one 'Complex Geometry'. This is especially problematic currently for us as there is currently no way to join two straights (see 'ORD Join Funct...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 1 Future consideration