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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 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add Color Coded Surface tool from InRoads to OpenRoads Designer.

The Color-Coded surface tool is missing in OpenRoads Designer which was there in InRoads, We can use the Thematic Height Display Style but that forces to use Rasterized Option while printing and in the PDF the surface gets pixelated.
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add a new component point to place a template to reference "CALL" other templates.

A new component called "Reference Point" to use when creating more complex templates that can "Call" other templates from the library that also uses prefixes, etc...
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Export Field Book data with Observations AND Attributes

I process survey data for the Maine Department of Transportation. We have been transitioning from InRoads to OpenRoads for about a year now and are currently testing OpenRoads Designer 2023. We really need a way to export edited Field Book data wi...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Turnout profile elevation in reports

We need the ability to get the profile elevation from the turnout points to the turnout report.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Update Standards from Dgnlib needs to allow user selections

Please adjust the "update standards from dgnlib" in Explorer to allow for more user control for what will update. I also want more visibility any active file, project resources that are different compared to the dgnlib resources. Consider a situat...

Variable that stores Format Options and makes them predefined in a workspace.

Currently as an OpenRoads Designer user, when the user changes the Format Options, the changes are stored on the user’s computer. This results in many different options being used in delivered reports. I would like to have an environment variable ...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 1 Future consideration

Creating label at every instersection point

The idea is to expand the labeling capabilities so that labeled points are created automatically at all line intersections. Currently, the tool only allows manual indication of the intersection and locating only one label at a time.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Productivity enhancements to Corridor Objects dialog

There are currently some things needed to be added to the Corridor Object dialog to help communicate design intent a bit better to users (especially with Parametric Constraints): The lack of information as to the rules linked to Parametric Constra...
about 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Turnout Creation Wizard

Developing turnouts in the new software can be quite cumbersome. If there was a wizard that allowed users to input known common pieces of geometry in a more descriptive and graphical fashion, it would help significantly. When geometry elements are...
about 4 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 3 Future consideration