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Circular Eccentric Nodes should have the ability to have a rotation point at the center of the structure.

Circular eccentric nodes, like manholes, should have the ability to have a rotation point at the center of the structure and elevation reference at the center of the frame and cover.
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a right click option in the Feature Definition dialogue for "Set Active"

When navigating through all the feature definitions it would be handy to have an option to set the feature to the active definition being used. It's easier many times to navigate through the OpenRoads Standards list to find features than using the...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

WS wind speeds table for FDOT Sdg 2.4 (and combinations) are not updated as per 2025

There appears to be a discrepancy in wind load calculations—specifically, the gust factor of 0.85 remains different from AASHTO standards. However, the FDOT Structures Design Guidelines (SDG) 2025 now allow the use of AASHTO Article 3.8, which may...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Terrain substitute tool

"Terrain Substitute” command that would swap all links from one Terrain to another, and also swap Parent Terrains for Surface Templates ( without breaking rules/relationships).
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Add reflect option for DU cells.

Implement a way to minimize the number of cells by allowing reflecting and mirroring of nodes during placement and manipulation.
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Update to Manual for Bridge Evaluation 3 rd edition

The current version of LBC we're using references the Manual for Bridge Evaluation, 2nd Edition as the basis for bridge rating. I'm wondering if there are plans to update this to reference the 3rd Edition instead. If such an update is planned, cou...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Move Description Separator and Attribute Separator from the Survey Settings to the TIW.

Currently the Description Separator is in the Survey Settings. Description Separator and Attribute Separator should be in the TIW. (Text import wizard). I will like a prompt to set the Description Separator just before you import a file.
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Developing Grasshopper Plugin for RM Bridge

The world famious bridge softwares such as Lusas, Midas Civil, Sofistik, Larsa 4D. All of them have been developed Grasshopper Plugin to increase the bridge modeling capacity. Lusas Grasshopper plugin: https://www.lusas.com/products/external_plugi...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Composite Section Forces for Shell & Beam Elements

Every other software that we use has an option to "compose" the forces from an individual set of shell and beams cross section at a specified location using a given effective shell width, for example two that I use: LARSA has "Compound Element For...
about 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Planned

LFD Load Rating in LEAP Steel

NYSDOT requires that all plan sets include an LFD Load Rating. Until this ability is added to LEAP Steel, we cannot adopt OpenBridge fully and must continue doing our steel design in different software.
about 3 years ago in OpenBridge Designer 3 Future consideration