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Annotate the flow direction of a ditch in cross section drawing model.

Ability to annotate the flow direction of a ditch using an annotation group within a cross section drawing model. Currently the annotation exists only for plan view (See communities post here ). In Geopak we had a workflow to accomplish this task,...
2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration

Invert Terrain Elevation

ASCII elevation data from hydrosurveys is delivered in positive depths making for an embankment instead of a channel. A function to multiply elevations by -1 would save a trip through Excel or a GIS program.
2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Calculating Multiple Polygon Volumes using Analyze Volume from Terrain Model

The calculate volume tool only works on a single target polygon. If multiple polygons are present it's quite tedious to calculate one-by-one and manually sum the totals. For example in a bathy survey of a channel it's common to have different area...
2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 3 Future consideration

Text Favorites for Start/End Station and Start/End Offsets of Plan and Profile Lines

When working with plan elements or profile elements, I often find myself needing to find the Start Station and End Station of a line element or a profile element. A text favorite would be useful for placing text for this information as annotation,...
2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

ORD Design File Settings>Working Unite>Resolution change tool

Is there a tool in ORD that can change the Design File Settings>Working Unite>Resolution and scale the model so that the model remains at the correct scale after the resolution change. Is there such a tool? If not, that is my design enhancem...
2 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 2 Future consideration

Add minimum vertical clearance results to delta surface tool

After creating the delta surface, we could not determine the location of minimum vertical clearance. We tried the analyze surface tool and it showed us coordinates of the min/max locations. However, the locations were outside of the delta surface....
3 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add Geometry Point "Name &/or ID" as an option for "Columns to Add" When Reporting on Geometry Points

In order to create a "Set Out Point Table" which is dynamically linked to geometry points in a DGN, we first need to report on the Points. Currently for Geometry Points, there is No Option to include the Geometry Point Name or ID. This Needs to be...
3 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 1 Future consideration

When using Cross Section Navigator, ability to see what the respective named boundary in plan view

When using the Cross Section Navigator to review the XS, I would like the ability to see the named boundaries highlight according to the cross section that you are looking at. This was a feature in OpenRoads Technology.
3 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Corridor Template Feature Definition override

I want to show in our corridor models the areas where we are using erosion control measures vs using general seeding. Currently, the only real way to make this distinction is to either create a new template that uses a different feature definition...
3 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - Add capability to incorporate cells alongside text favorites

We have several annotations that require a combination of cell and civil element data. I've attached 2 examples where we have a need to combine cell with text favorite data. While the text favorite can be added within the cell itself, there are ti...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration