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Cross Section View and elevation difference measurement tools

A way to better measure slope in cross section view, and elevation difference, that isn’t clunky. 
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Needs review

Place 1 Cross Section per Sheet (or other predefined number of cross sections)

We want to place only one cross section per sheet so that once a pdf is created, the user can flip through the pdf pages quickly and each cross section appears in the same spot. We can sort of trick this by changing the spacing, but it would be mu...
about 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Allow Conduits from different "families" to connect to the same node.

Add support for nodes that accept multiple types of conduit families.
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Simplfy the Interface - How many "sizes" can there be?

Object Properties - Feature Definition of a pipe is top level, its description is a pick list of diameters (TxDOT), but Utilities Properties has three different locations. This complexity is unnecessary.
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Needs review

Set cant parameters before applying

Make the Cant tool more useful. Currently, we set the speed then apply cant and it spits out some random cant values, which are unrealistic. Then we can set the cant parameters and the software proves the values are unrealistic and we have to edit...
9 months ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 1 Needs review

Gutter spread - flip side

Why do gutters not have a "side" as spread when drawn appear in the right side.
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

If no Design Lenghts in Catalog - Ignore or Set Design Inlet Openings to false

I do not see a place to force in a Inlet Catalog to set "Design Inlet Opening" to false, so I would like the software to assume False if lenghts are NOT in the catalog.
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Needs review

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...
10 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Allow for profile annotations to use the profile exaggeration

Please add the capability for profile annotations to use the exaggeration set in the profile model view. This would allow for annotations to better fit a profile that has been exaggerated
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Be able to view on & off "Name, Field Code, Elevations, & Descriptions" for Geometry Points

I can view on & off "Name, Field Code, Elevations, & Descriptions" for Survey Points but for Geometry Points you have to annotate text graphics into your model. Seems to me that you should be able to view those the same weather it's a Geom...
6 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review