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Allow End Conditions to Seek Terrain at Fixed Elevation Without Point Controls

Currently, OpenRoads Designer does not support a native method for designing an end condition that targets both the terrain model and a specific elevation simultaneously without relying on external geometry such as contour lines or point controls....
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate aggregated quantity report for all components linked to a price list

As a road designer, I would like to be able to produce a report aggregating all quantities for all components for a project, items in this reporting being linked to a price list.With Item types and Reports we have ability to generate data, but for...
almost 4 years ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

There is no way to easily measure an area within a cross section.

In ORD when you attempt to measure the graphics within a XS View it appears that you get the surface area of the entire cut or fill volume. As a user, I need the specific end area for the element. Presently you have to trace the element with a mea...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Approach Slab Line Offset

Currently the approach slab line uses an offset distance to place it. that offset value just shifts the line that distance along the alignment, which is not what we want especially on curved bridges. That offset distance needs to be a copy paralle...
about 3 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Radial line of sight - Along alignment for visual intrusion checks

The new feature in 2022 R3 with the line of sight/ Radial sight check is good for a single check, but being able to run the radial tool along an alignment at set intervals to be able to check for visual intrusion. This will be a great design aid i...
about 3 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Event Point List annotation

To annotate event points you must specify the name of the event point list in the annotation group. This requires each user to name their event point list exactly as per the annotation group or the event points will not be annotated. This is not l...
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Export Autodesk DWG

Please return the export to DWG/DWF functionality available in previous versions. Not every customer uses Microstation DGN files.
about 3 years ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 7 Future consideration

add the entry to turnout feature definition: from point .1 to point .0 as required by US and Canadian standards

In US and Canadian standards, the turnouts are defined from switch point, and the distance between point of switch ( .1) and PITO (intersection, as point .0) is the most critical distance. As right now, there is no prompt available in turnouts fea...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Adding variables toggle to turnout feature definition

Currently the turnout feature definition only supported non-US convention and methodology. It is only based on ratio which is not well suited for US and Canadian users. North American rail standards are based the actual frog and switch angles expr...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Display the slope of the conduits in the Node utility properties

There are a lot of properties of the conduits connected to a node within the utility properties of that node. However, one thing that I need to call out (and would like to automate) is the difference in slope that occurs between two conduits conne...
7 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration