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Visible final contour labels in corridor

After the corridor is created, it is possible to see the final contours. However, the contour elevation labels are not shown unless a proposed surface is created. Why is that so? I believe it would be beneficial to toggle on/off contour elevation ...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Make it easier to find Point Control referenced element.

I needed to update one point control but I had no idea where I could find the line (plan element) that was used in the point control. The point I could find in the template or by hoving the mouse over the corridor, but the line (plan element) that...
almost 4 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add Relationship Tree View to simplify understanding why circular references happen

Given that ORD is capable of recognising when it is creating a circular relationship reference, it would be very useful to have something like a geometry relationships "tree" we can view to understand the links between elements which would immense...
about 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Analyze Elevations in Dynamic Cross Section

Users would like the ability to quickly place a point in the dynamic section view to pull elevation information. It would be nice to have that text remain in place as you move from section to section, similar to the cut/fill volumes between sectio...
about 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Update beam layout

Please update the software so to allow modeling additional exterior beam starting at abutment and ending before support lines and the added beam not parallel to the other continuous beam for multi-span unit.
11 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 1 Future consideration

Ability to add bends in watermain and when the bend angle is changed to geometry updates

When laying out watermain pipes the bends can be 45 degrees, 22.5 degrees, etc. These bends are modeled as nodes in our workspace so we can report of them and display them in our drawings. If the angle of the pipe adjusts, we want the node feature...
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Planned

Maintain Item Types when extracting drainage or utility model from survey graphics.

When using "Extract From Graphic" tool to create a drainage or utility model object, the extraction process fails to bring the Item Type from the source object (in this example a surveyed gas line), leading the user to reattach the Item Type to th...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / Item Types / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Provide pop-up message when drainage "breaks" and becomes red dashed line in appearance

Many User's are experiencing an issue where portions of their drainage layout (nodes for example) are becoming red dashed lines in appearance. This change indicates a break/error in the design and absent specific reasons why this occurred, User's ...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Batch create CIP Concrete Box

The main line consists primarily of CIP variable XS simple box girders. We are struggling with the limitations of the Bridge Wizard and hope to see these pain points addressed in the next update. Pier/Substructure: The Bridge Wizard does not suppo...
7 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Add a “Chord" Toggle to all the Horizontal Curve Tools

To have to go to the Back Stage and select Settings ==> File ==> Design File Settings ==> Civil Formatting ==> Degree of Curve Method to change from an Arc Defined Curve to Chord Defined Curve is not a good workflow. In our State we ca...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration