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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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 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.
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add an automated slider button for the object spacing box.

For newer users a quick design option in the (Object Spacing box) for simpler signs would be great. We typically space lines of text using 1/2 to 3/4 of the text height used. If the program could do this automatically with a slider button that sho...
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow the Text Import Wizard to process Geopak Drainage survey source files without editing

In order to export drainage data, two items must be noted during the field collection. Each pipe must have a size and condition. These must be placed as the first characters in the description field separated by a space. If two different sizes are...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Separate geometric ratios summary from stress ratio summary

OpenBridge LEAP Steel Summaries include geometric ratios (like 6.10.7.3-1) together with stress ratios. This is not helpful, as that ratios is not a real demand/capacity ratio, therefore when that geometric value of "performance ratio" is high, it...
6 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Generate Report of Construction Pipe Lengths, Start-Stop Station, and Offsets based on Keymap

Would like to utilized Asset Manager or a similar tool to quickly obtain quantities for drainage structures, namely pipes, based on a keymap. The idea is to feed the tool a keymap file, a file containing shapes representing each sheet, the tool us...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Control Precision of Terrain High and Low Points

Control precision of High and Low point annotation in Element Templates instead of reading "Accuracy" in Design File Settings. Set precision in the Element Template>Calculated Feature Settings>High/Low Points settings.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add option for rounding corners when using the "Geometry Offsets and Tapers" Tool

With regular MicroStation lines, when using the "move parallel" tool (Offset), there is an option to choose "Round" which creates rounded corners for the offset line. There should be a similar option when using the ORD Tool "Offsets and Tapers." C...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Set Left and Right Range {Search Distance} for Horizontal Feature Constraint in Templates

Allow a left and right max search range for Horizontal Feature Constraint as separate input boxes. Currently, if set to "0'", the search range is unlimited and items on the left side may find a matching feature definition intended for the right si...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration