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LBS add a special distribution factor for deflection (AASHTO Art. 2.5.2.6.2)

Under commentary C2.5.2.6.2: "For straight girder system bridge, this is equivalent to saying that the distribution factor for deflection is equal to the number of lanes divided by the number of beams"
over 1 year ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Add surface to multiple drainage profiles quickly & in batch

I would like to be able to select multiple pipe profiles in the drainage and utilities tab and right click to add a surface to all of them at once. This will save a considerable amount of time - instead of needing to open each profile model indivi...
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Alternate Surface Drop-Down List

To avoid mistakes from typing in a wrong Name of Alternate Surfaces (AltSurf) when building your Civil Template, it would be nice to have the ability to choose an existing Name of AltSurf from a dropdown-list. The dropdown-list would show existing...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Label "Geometry Points" automatically without using "Annotate Element"

I would like to create "Geometry Points" automatically. For example, label Point Name, Northing, Easting, and Elevation.
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 7 Will not implement

Have Plan Readability Recognize Sheet Orientation

The existing Annotation settings offer a plan readability setting to invert text if it would otherwise appear upside down. This appears to be tied to design file orientation. For this to really be useful, it needs to function according to the fina...
over 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Flood Volumes - Surface analysis between three surfaces

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify surface math logic - Above Existing, Below Proposed, and Below "Floodplain" (variable plane) to get good floodplain volumes.
over 2 years ago in Analytics / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Add regression report tool for reporting against a control alignment

In Bentley Rail Track you could run a "Regression" report via Tools - XML Re ports - Regression... This was an invaluable way of reporting existing cants, sixfoots, etc. with the figures generated in line with a 'Control Track'.
almost 4 years ago in Reports 1 Future consideration

3D sign capability

Provide ability to place a 3D sign panel in a design model with the size and design from the sgn file. Transoft's Guidesign program has this ability as an example.
about 3 years ago in Import/Export / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenRoads SignCAD / Signs 0 Future consideration

Point on Tangent Annotation Group

This is an enhancement request to recognize that POT's are different from PI's. Presently ORD can not distinguish between the 2 different types of points. We want to use separate labels, "PI" and "POT". Our enhancement request is to distinguish be...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Show Connected Conduits in Profile

The ability to show the cross-pipes in profile runs right now is by default a user preference. It would be nice if this could just be a standard function or at least set to "True" as a default to be turned off if desired.
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Future consideration