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Existing terrain element concept and modifiers

Vectorworks Landscape, Revit 2024 or Virtual Surveyor (a drone photogrammetry software) treat existing terrain in a extremely effective way, but all of them lack the volumes and tools from OpenRoads. What they do is genarating a solid from the exi...
10 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
10 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Automatic/batch update of Profile 3D cut

This won't update immediatly when the 3D model is updated. This means that when going to plan production, all profiles needs to be refreshed.
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 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.
10 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Don't process corridor for change of disabled Point Control or Parametric Constraint

Not sure why it does this, but it doesnt make sense that the software processes when these are changed although they are disabled. To aid in productivity, especially for large corridors, the corridor should check if the Point Control / Parametric ...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

Compartir librerías entre ORD y ORLD sin necesidad de alinear con "civil file manager.exe"

Hola. Las empresas que utilizamos tanto ORD como ORLD y queremos compartir algunas de sus librerías entre ambos programas, nos encontramos con el problema que ambos programas no están alineados, porque tienen esquemas diferentes. Parece ser que en...
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Show deflections at PIs even when there is no curve

As a Highway Engineer, I want the horizontal alignment reports to show deflections at PIs even if there is no curve, at least one of the reports so that I don't need to add it manually.
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Variable that stores Format Options and makes them predefined in a workspace.

Currently as an OpenRoads Designer user, when the user changes the Format Options, the changes are stored on the user’s computer. This results in many different options being used in delivered reports. I would like to have an environment variable ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Target Alias Sort by Name

Suggesting to sort the Target Alias list by name and increase the width so long concatenated names can be fully read.
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to control the directory opened when importing text files to fieldbooks

Currently, when importing text files to fieldbooks the directory opens in the last used directory. It would be useful to control this behavior so that it can open in the directory where the active DGN is located. This can function similar to the c...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / Workspace 0 Future consideration