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Haunched (angled) deck soffit at outside edges extending to top flange of girder

Our bridges are designed with a haunched (or angled) soffit at the outside edges of the deck. These extend from the outside edge of the deck down to the top of the outside girder flange. Right now, this can be fudged in a deck template on a straig...
11 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Beam Haunch Parameters and Templates

Beam haunches should have more robust parameters or even model templates. some examples would be: the ability to allow exterior haunches to extend to the edge of deck independent of the top flange of the girder/beam. also allow it to taper to a ...
10 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

OBM should support multi-model, 2D and 3D workflows similar to OpenRoads

Users currently need to always start with a 3D file in OBM unlike in ORD. Allow users to support the multi-model (2D and 3D) behavior similar to OpenRoads Designer. All decorations should be in the 2D file and all 3D objects in the 3D file. When s...
about 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

AASHTO LRFD 10th ed. request for implementation in LBS

When is Open Bridge/Leap going to be updated to the AASHTO LRFD 10th Edition? Our D.O.T. is requiring all design to be with the 10th edition.
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer Planned

Item Types for Parametric cells

Users are asking for item types for Parametric cells. Primarily for quantities reports.We tag each element, but can we expose volumes for each element in a Parametric cell. The most important things are Volume, Surface Area, Length(Column, Pile, C...
about 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

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 Planned

Need modeling of curved wing walls

Currently in OBM wingwalls can only be modeled straight (and skewed). We need to be able to model curved wing walls, i.e. on a horizontal curve.
about 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Need to add functionality to LBS for struts/web walls between pier columns.

Currently, if an OBM model is defined with a strut/web wall between pier columns, the strut will not transfer to LBS, and there is no way within the LBS substructure design module to add a strut/web wall. This is a hug problem because we have brid...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Prestressed Concrete Girder Beam End Cuts & Clips

It would be great if we could control the vertical end cut orientation of the concrete girders: Normal (as is) and Vertical (plumb to the world). Also, we often have to clip the corners of girders when bridges are on heavy skew. Would be nice to b...
about 3 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Modeling horizontal bracing for steel girder bridge

I believe OpenBridge modeler missing function to place horizontal bracing between girders (angle or CHS member) CHS preferable.
almost 4 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Planned