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Calculate the area of survey chains if they are enclosed shapes

Survey chains (when enclosed) have a reported area value of zero. This is seen in the properties for the geometry, and also if you try to read the area through an item type using the expression This.GetElement().EnclosedArea. Our construction staf...
about 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Improve Civil Labeler so it doesn't leave little circles in the dgn

Currently, when labels are placed, small circle elements are added to the file. While these circles are necessary for maintaining the connection between the element and the label, they present several challenges: File Clutter: The addition of h...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Superelevation Rules file configuration variable

Please add a config variable that allows us to point to the folder where the superelevation rules files reside but without specifying a specific superelevation rules file. This will be helpful when a project has multiple rules file to choose from ...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Automated Catchment vs Alignment Low-Point Detection

Requirement:The system shall provide the ability to identify the low point at the intersection of a catchment area and the design alignment. This functionality shall assist the user in determining where a culvert is required. Process: Reference ...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Add better management tool/window for terrains sources elements

There is no effective panel for editing the terrain sources elements. The only available tools are the add/remove feature or the "Edit Terrain" tool with it's ""delete feature". All the above are extremely dependable on visual and clickable data. ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain / User Interface 0 Future consideration

When creating a new point in a Survey field book using the “New Point” command, allow an option to hand-enter the coordinates.

When using the “New Point” command for a survey point, the user must screen-pick the coordinates. There are times when it would be extremely useful to hand-enter the Northing, Easting, Elevation.
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Edit Civil Labels

It is cumbersome to delete Civil Labels and place new ones when a simple change is required. Similar to how Geopak Plan View Labeler worked, it would be ideal if you could edit a previously placed Civil Label. Also being able to match a Civil Labe...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Reattach Corridor on linear templates

Reattach corridor was recently disabled for linear templates and the only way to edit such corridor is to create new one from the scratch.
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to add marks for the lowest points along ditches in plan

Ability to add marks for the lowest points along ditches in plan. Currently we can only annotate flow arrows. It can also work as vertical change in plan for ditch profiles.
almost 4 years ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 1 Planned

Merge and separate geometry with dependencies from and into multiple DGNs

When you have multiple files with geometry which reference each other, I think there should be a tool to allow you to merge those DGN's into one without losing relationships e.g. I can merge my main alignment file and the file which contains my ch...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration