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Allow Switching Annotation from One Alignment to Another

Ability to change the referenced labeling alignment (can be in properties as a drop down with all available alignments). For example being able to switch main alignment to a side road alignment
about 1 year ago in Annotation 0 Needs review

Annotate vertical curve info on any alignment, not just the active one

Currently, vertical curve annotation (L, K) is part of the Drawing Model annotation groups and can only annotate the active profile. It would work much better if this was part of the Linear Profile Annotation and could be applied to any vertical a...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Description column in Civil Labeler

We are converting some of the cells that we have used in the past for placing text into Text Favorites so we can place them using the Civil Labeler. However, we are used to browsing to having both the cell name and description columns in the Cells...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

[Completed]Element Annotation and/or Civil Labeler Slopes for Complex Lines

It would be amazing if the "Element Annotation" or "Civil Labeler" could provide individual slopes for complex lines in plan view in a seamless automated way. The text favorite I've been wanting to use is "Plan Annotation.Profile Ahead Grade" whic...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Control Precision of Terrain High and Low Points

Control precision of High and Low point annotation in Element Templates instead of reading "Accuracy" in Design File Settings. Set precision in the Element Template>Calculated Feature Settings>High/Low Points settings.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler Functionality without named boundary

I would to request additional functionality of the civil labeler. Currently, the civil labeler only works in the design space and in the drawing model space IF the reference is associated with a named boundary. There are several times when we don'...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Vertex Option for Labeling Points

The current capabilities allow a selection set of points to label. But a selection set of a linear element labels its centroid. We need the ability to label the vertices of a linear object as points. This would need to coexist with the capability ...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

annotate cut and fill sections in plan view

this would allow for automated text to get placed for cut and fill sections to denote which areas are which. This would assist with meeting SCDOT requirements. Previously, this could be accomplished in PowerGEOPAK with a SCDOT VBA.
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

We need the ability to label the start and stop stations of a profile drawing model after the model is created.

Currently, the start and stop station text favorite values only exist at creation and are persisted to the drawing model. Therefore, they are not available after the drawing models are created.
7 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Need to annotate partial alignment lengths along turnout from point of switch to start/end

Users need a way to annotate the same way SS2 would annotate with the Switch Height Plan command. Partial lengths along the alignment need to be annotated, but there is not a way to do this in OpenRail. The workaround is to create a dummy alignmen...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review