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"create new .xml file" or "close .xml file" button in geometry builder

Currently, if you have an existing .xml file open in the geometry builder it remains open until you exit OpenRoads. Simply opening a new drawing does not close the .xml file. Due to the significant amount of time it takes to open and close .dgn's ...
10 days ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Geometry Overlapping Linear elements.

Whenever you have a Geometry and used shared line (e.g. Lots), There should be a tool to remove duplicate/overlapping lines. Its problematic if we use a special linestyle with gaps and when the two line on top of each other it will look like a sol...
13 days ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Geometry Connector: automatically use turnout radius when connecting an arc to a turnout

When using Geometry Connector to connect turnouts, it is often that we must extend the last arc of the turnout. Because the arc is in the turnout we cannot extend it. Instead, we must add an arc of same radius. It would be nice that in such situat...
about 1 month ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Linear Template - the BSplines warning is not helpful

When you place a Linear Template on a splined element a warning is generated which requires user interaction to dismiss: "Warning: The base geometry selected for this corridor contains B-Spline elements for the horizontal Transitions. Consider rec...
about 1 month ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Elevations to the Event Point List Table

The elevations of the event point can only be seen when one generated a Horizontal Alignment Event Point List Report. It would be better also if the elevations can be seen earlier in the Event Points List Table
about 1 month ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add reading/editing alignments with shifts with table editor

I have a horizontal and vertical alignment with a shift. If you load the vertical alignment into the table editor, it does not load all the VPI's. It skips one of the VPI's at the shift location. Also, if you export the vertical alignment using th...
about 2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Table Editor (Vertical/Horizontal) Ability to Customize Columns

I'd like the ability to change the Northing and Easting columns in Table Editor to show Y and X instead
about 2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Normal/parallel offset in vertical profile

In ORD it is possible to do a Profile Offset Transition. This methode makes a vertical offset. In case of a slope, the difference between the vertical offset and the normal/parallel offset is different. For large slopes, this is differences is too...
2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Profile from Top Mesh

We have the ability to create multiple profiles from multiple surfaces at the same time, but there are occasions where I only need to define a single profile line based on multiple surfaces. It would be handy if there was an option to create a pro...
3 months ago in Geometry 8 Already exists

Adding Japanese Cubic Parabola

OpenRail Designer seems to have Japanese Sine spiral type added from the formula used in Power RailTrack. However, there seems to be nothing similar to Japanese Cubic Parabola, which is based on a different formula from Japanese Sine.
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration