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Allow users change which graphical filter is used after creating a terrain model

A terrain model was created with one graphical filter. Currently, there is a option to update the terrain model from graphical filter, but this only uses the graphical filter that was used to make the terrain model originally. It would be great if...
9 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Make alternates surfaces same as 3d mesh

and not just a basic triangulation of 3D lines. Maybe add transverses features.
18 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

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. ...
about 1 month ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow flow arrow density adjustment similar to contour lines

All the current products anchor their surface data in triangles, and allow different types of visualizations to happen. For instance, you can choose to show major and minor contours as needed, and they do not change the way the triangles actually ...
2 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Terrain from mesh & Terrain from solid face

Create a terrain from the top or bottom surface of a select Mesh Element or Solid Element
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add Boundary Feature on Alternate Surface

OpenRoads Modeling > Terrain > Create > Additionnal Methods > Create Corridor Alternate Surfaces. Add an Toggle on/off option to create a Feature Boundary on each alternate surfaces based on the ends linear.
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add some kind of optimization setting for "existing ground terrain contour display" to improve performance

We really need some kind of optimization setting available which will improve the performance of OpenRoads when Existing Ground Terrain Contours are Displayed. I believe this setting in Civil 3D is called "Level of Detail" or something. The proble...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Invert Terrain Elevation

ASCII elevation data from hydrosurveys is delivered in positive depths making for an embankment instead of a channel. A function to multiply elevations by -1 would save a trip through Excel or a GIS program.
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Calculating Multiple Polygon Volumes using Analyze Volume from Terrain Model

The calculate volume tool only works on a single target polygon. If multiple polygons are present it's quite tedious to calculate one-by-one and manually sum the totals. For example in a bathy survey of a channel it's common to have different area...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 3 Future consideration

Add minimum vertical clearance results to delta surface tool

After creating the delta surface, we could not determine the location of minimum vertical clearance. We tried the analyze surface tool and it showed us coordinates of the min/max locations. However, the locations were outside of the delta surface....
7 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration