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Pay Item Manager

ORD needs a pay item tool to manage all pay items and quantities for a project. This would help with keeping up with pay items that do not have elements in a file, especially in regard to digital delivery. PowerGeopak had a quantity manager that c...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 5 Future consideration

External model checking process - by possibly running a report to identify where 3d conduit string lines have been placed - i.e soffit, centre, invert, crown or base, this will ensure all output data of conduits are consistent for construction.

This is useful to enable a) - checks to be carried out, b) - to identify possible conduits that require amending - to align with all others. This will enable consistent and accurate output data to be produced, that can be used to construct from.
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Plan annotation based on element length

A feature to define within the Annotation Group for plan alignment annotation and vary the text favourite used based on element length. For example, I would like to use a text favourite with transition geometry text on 1 line for elements greater ...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to turn off Mesh (components) in reference files

There should be a way to turn off Mesh (components) in reference files. Currently, if you untick the "Mesh" Feature Definition from ORD Standards in explorer, it only turns off Mesh Components within the active model. The Mesh components that use ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Ability to use Cross Section Named Boundaries across references

We would like to be able to create cross section sheets by referencing previously created boundaries in a similar manner to how we currently are able to use Plan and Profile Named Boundaries across references.
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Adding Japanese Cubic Parabola

OpenRail Designer seems to have Japanese Sine spiral type added from the formula used in Power RailTrack. However, there seems to be nothing similar to Japanese Cubic Parabola, which is based on a different formula from Japanese Sine.
6 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

add distance between VPI to annotations in profiles

We need this to label our profiles optimally there'd be two values, once the horizontal (projected) distance and once the true (slanted) distance between to VPI's
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Add option for suffix (pos and neg) to Slope Format

In format options for slope annotation we can define prefix for positive and negative values. please add the option to add a suffix. This would allow to annotate for example XS Slopes like so: <2.0% this way or 2.0%> the other way
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

feature match tool to limit entire feature path in the .CSV

When importing data with a .CSV format use a feature match tool so I don't have to have the entire feature definition path in the .CSV. Also add a best match option.
almost 2 years ago in Import/Export 1 Future consideration

Import Line and Shape geometry in a .CSV format.

Currently we are only import points and alignments in a .CSV format. I would like the ability to import lines and shapes also.
almost 2 years ago in Import/Export 0 Future consideration