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Contact (3rd) Rail tools

It would be great to have a set of tools to model a contact (third) rail - this is used by many transit systems as a traction power source for trains. There are enough nuances to the design of this rail that it warrants a dedicated tool with the a...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Terrain Display Option/Creation without Facet Smoothing

The way Openroads currently displays terrain models is not very defined. We need to have the option to create terrains without the use of Facet Smoothing so they will display similar to how InRoads does. I've attached a sample of an InRoads Terrai...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 8 Future consideration

To allow edit speed in cant editor

at the moment, in Open Rail CE 2022 Release 1, we can edit speed in cant editor . it is not comfortable to have two windows (speed table and cant editor) when we design cant, speed. better solution to have it in one window
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Accudraw Integration with Civil Geometry Tools

Enable the ability to utilize Accudraw with the Civil Geometry tools [lock perpendicular to drawing compass]. Currently I do not know a way to draw perpendicular lines using the horizontal and vertical civil geometry tools unless I manually type i...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists

Key Station with civil rule

Key stations can now solely be places with a station input. In many cases the location of your Key Stations depends on the position of other elements, like geometry for example. Being able to give key stations a civil rule - like the Persist Snap ...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Already exists

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

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

Ability to choose named boundary stations from another geometry

Would like to have a checkbox when creating corridors and named boundaries (particular to cross sections) to allow users to choose another geometry to pick start and stop stations. Example, I built an alignment alongside two other adjacent alignme...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 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.
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to superscript and underline the decimal digits for spot elevation annotation

Currently it is not possible to format only the decimal digits of the annotation. The user wants to annotate the spot elevation in a custom format where the decimal units are having superscript and the underline. The option from DIN Dimensioning o...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 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 ...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration