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Chevron Pavement Marking Tool

This tool would replace the old Geopak tool that created chevrons with minimal effort. It's certainly possible to create chevrons by hand with the current tools, but it takes significantly more time for what was a pretty quick task. I think the ol...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Create 3D Automatically should inherit elevations from civil points if you draw a civil line and snap to the points

For detail grade areas it would be nice to place points in plan view and snap lines to those points. The lines would have annotation groups assigned to them to label the slope and distance between the points. Grades could then easily be tweaked by...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Surface Template - "Process Corridor" similar tool

Just add the function to process the template again so it can be updated. This is a major issue when using surface templates with clipping boundaries. If I change the clipping boundary (a simple shape on the 2D model), I have to delete and reapply...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Dynamics / Rules to Meshes produced by Create Closed Mesh Tool

Currently the Create Closed Mesh Tool produces static meshes which do not update when base elements change. When any of the base elements change, the existing meshes need to be deleted and created from scratch. We would like to see the following i...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling 0 Future consideration

Add a new component point to place a template to reference "CALL" other templates.

A new component called "Reference Point" to use when creating more complex templates that can "Call" other templates from the library that also uses prefixes, etc...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Reflect template for template drop

It would be very helpful if we could reflect a template while assigning it to a template drop. Templates currently can only be placed in the direction they were created, from template origin "out". This requires a duplication of templates, as sepa...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a property to apply terrain feature type to civil elements.

Set the terrain feature type for template points (breakline, boundary). When creating a terrain from a corridor, this would automatically create the exterior boundary eliminating the need for trimming edge triangles. Provide this same functionalit...
2 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Corridor/Linear Template Vertical & Both Point Controls "Active Profile" option

Currently Corridor Vertical/Both Point Controls link the the specific Vertical Profile and when these get deleted, the Point Control is removed without warning. An option to set this point control to always use the Active Profile would allow this ...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Corridor Flow Arrows

An option of flow arrows display for corridors would be great a great enhancement complementing already very useful contours display within corridor feature definition. A combination of these two functionalities would greatly reduce the need for t...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to define Feature Definition on Alternate Surface

In Create Template tools, add the ability to set a Feature Definition on an Alternate Surface.
7 months ago in Modeling 0 Future consideration