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Reports must be able to contain the properties of complex elements when placing as table

The Reports tool I am talking about is the one in Utilities and in the Explorer and not the Horizontal Geometry report. Currently, this tool enables only to report the properties (such as the length, direction and etc.) of the linear elements and ...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Provide an easy method to allow to remove cluttered profile displays

Sometimes the profile windows get really crowded with annotation details and can become confusing to read. This is especially true when there are drainage profiles on the left and right sides of the road that should be displayed in the roadway pro...
about 2 months ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Manage Annotations - Label - Text Divider Symbology control

Within OpenRail 2025 latest update, you have added the functionality to include label annotations, which at last allows for auto updating of leader lines to the annotative text. This is a great improvement and much needed. For certain clients, we ...
about 2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Annotation Group > Label to include a field to setup the leader line to offset from the origin/start point

The Annotation Group (and Civil Labeler) do not have any way to configure the leader line to offset from it's origin point. There are several DOTs who need to accomplish this for plans production. I included a screenshot showing the desired necess...
about 2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Remember the Last‑Used Civil Label in Civil Labeler

Description Why it’s useful: During plan production, users place the same label repeatedly. Requiring them to navigate the full label tree every time adds unnecessary friction and breaks workflow momentum. Who benefits: High‑volume plan producti...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Copy Civil Labels as Fully Functional Civil Objects

Why it’s useful: In plan production, users routinely need to apply the same civil label repeatedly or fix a missed label by copying one nearby. Today, civil labels cannot be copied at all, forcing users to reopen the Civil Labeler, re‑navigate the...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Allow Annotation group 'label' settings to work with D&U

A new annotation filter setting (Label) was introduced in OpenRoads 2025. This setting works well to place callouts for corridor components, however when drainage/utility features are selected, we run into issues as shown below. The callout does n...
3 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Modify Civil Label Settings After Placement

I am looking for a tool to modify the label settings after a civil label has been placed. In SS10, we had plan view labeler which could choose your style, delineator, and leader before placing and then after it has been placed it there was an edit...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Civil Annotation - Set to NOT scale

We have civil annotation that we use to annotate point geometry. It would be extremely helpful to have an option to set the "Is Annotation" property to "False" in the settings. This can be done after placement, but that is not obvious to users.
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Civil Label Organizer Enhancement

With the understanding that the "Label Organizer" tool is still a tech preview, I'd like to suggest that the tool be enhanced to allow it to work with any Shape/View Port rather than be limited to use with Named Boundary only. In addition, it woul...
4 months ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration