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Element Annotation - include "secondary" in addition to "override"

Most alignments we use have 2 defaults or less - having to hunt and peck through the override tree is time consuming
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add By Linear Element option to Analyze Catchment (by Terrain Model) tool

Be able to select a linear element (eg. edge of road pavement) that the Analyze Catchment tool computes catchment areas from a terrain model for. The tool currently only has a Use Fence option which can still take a long time. If one can narrow it...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Variable for Location Preference After Moving Annotation Text

A configuration variable (or dgnlib setting), to control the 'Location' setting of Annotation Text is desired. Images of the setting included. Currently the Location setting for annotation text can be set to Default, Relative or Fixed; Default is ...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Reporting Capabilities to OpenRoads: Design Criteria

Managers are requesting a report output from OpenRoads that shows any/all Design Criteria used to generate the model (corridor)...things like Sight Distance, Design Standards, Decisions/Assumptions, Non-Conformance, etc. These managers have 20+ ye...
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Grid Volume

Provide the compute volume functions between terrains based on grid. Grid size can be adjusted. Same functions in InRoads
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer 1 Already exists

Change Text Favorite element attachment/selections

When using text favorites that are based on an alignment (station/offset), these text favorites can break if the alignment changes or is dropped or it can't find it. As far as I know, when this happens, there is no way to reassign the text favorit...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Project Geometry Using Active Feature Definition

When projecting various 2d geometry or 3d linear geometry the user is first required to set the active feature definition in the feature definition toolbar so that the project geometry shows up on the correct level, ect. It would speed things up i...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Cell in GC will have additional properties for IFC

Placed cells with Generative components on alignment which have assigned item types as additional properties. Those properties will be later exported to IFC. Now the additional properties are not shown in GC only in ORD.
over 2 years ago in Geometry / Import/Export / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

Quick placement of texts in cross sections when building an intersection with civil cell

When creating the plans of the cross sections of an intersection, you do not place the texts on the cross sections of the intersection area
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to perform evaluation and branching within Labeling tools

Before Survey Annotation tools were available within Open Roads, we used many VBA Feature Macros to generate all survey labels. As we were developing these, we realized that we could build some QA/QC checks into our code. For Example, we shoot sto...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration