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Text favorite to honor math expressions

What I envision, would be the ability to define Math within a Text Favorite. So, let us say that "[[" would define the start of math in a text favorite. A text favorite could be created in that the value displayed, is math from element properties....
about 4 years ago in Annotation 4 Future consideration

Ability to change default setting of Remove Tangent Restriction

Every time we open the Geometry Builder tool or add a new geometry, the "Remove Tangent Restriction" lock in the top right changes to a hardcoded ON state (picture below). We'd like to be able to control its default state, especially within the sa...
about 2 months ago in Geometry / User Interface 0 Future consideration

port all Regression tools from OpenRail to OpenRoads

There are some regression tools that were ported from openRail into openRoads in previous releases. However, they didn't port every regression tool. Most notably, they did not port the Vertical regression tools for creating a regressed profile. We...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Regression Analysis 1 Future consideration

Compound and Reverse Curve Annotation

There is no civil geometry property exposed for "Arc Begin Point Label" or "Arc End Point Label". This leads to a discrepancy in the way that points are labeled for PCC and PRC on the alignment when compared to the curve data table. These annotati...
about 2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

OpenRoads/FlowMaster Calculation and Annotation

PowerInroads used to have a built in calculator/analyzer. It helped us to quickly calculate the drainage pipe information, minimum slope and velocity at full value etc. Currently to get the data, we use Flow Masters and manually calculate each pip...
8 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to append, join, or combine individual alignments and have it hold the sub alignment stationing, which would create station equations

In Geopak, we had the ability to take individual alignments and create an overall alignment from a subset of alignments and it would hold the individual stationing for each alignment, creating station equations. There is no way to do this in ORD u...
about 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Snapping to arc/spiral end in profile

I would highly recommend to let user to snap to arc or spiral end in profile design. As you can see in the attached video I can't find intersection between profile alignment and vertical line that indicates arc/spiral end. To find intersection b...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Haunched (angled) deck soffit at outside edges extending to top flange of girder

Our bridges are designed with a haunched (or angled) soffit at the outside edges of the deck. These extend from the outside edge of the deck down to the top of the outside girder flange. Right now, this can be fudged in a deck template on a straig...
11 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 1 Planned

Need COGO feature parity with InRoads and Geopak

In order to comply with the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions "Minimum Standards", the Kansas Department of Transportation is asking for an enhancement to OpenSite Designer CONNECT Edition software for Right of Way workflows as follows: ...
almost 4 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / User Interface 6 Future consideration

Named Boundary Creation - Option to Not Use Saved Views!

When creating named boundaries of any time, a saved view is created for each named boundary. The creation of a saved view is a method that is supposed to control the look and feel of the drawing/sheet, but it is over-complicated, poorly understood...
about 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration