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Bentley Chatbot

With the growing influence of AI and individual chat bots, I think it would be a great idea to make a "Bentley Chatbot" that could help user with tasks such as writing style sheet reports, making scrips, setting up Item type expressions, help with...
over 2 years ago in Help and Documentation 0 Needs review

Possibility to add/remove/change long sleepers sets

Possibility to add/remove/change length of long sleepers sets in turnouts that are placed in a geometry. When you are working with existing geometry and there are turnouts with too long sleepers sets or if you by mistake place a turnout that has a...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

*.sgn file preview before opening the file

The old versions allowed you to see a preview of the file prior to opening it. The current version takes you to Explorer that can't preview them. I have thousands of files and have to view them in the old program, to know which one to open in the ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Planned

Allow Assignment to Multiple Alternate Surfaces

There are often points in a template that should belong to multiple surfaces. For instance, we have a point in our rural templates that is part of the top mesh and should also belong to our aggregate shoulder alternate surface and our subgrade sur...
almost 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Need a Terrain report in ORD having Root Mean Square Error in it same as the report by the "compare point to tin" tool in GEOPAK

User is wants the terrian report from native Geopak which gives Root Mean Square Error to be added to ORD. In Geopak there was a tool "compare point to tin" tool that provided a report. This report would provide the "Root Mean Square Error". In OR...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports / Survey 0 Future consideration

Display and Annotate Tap Nodes in Profile Drawing

The feature name (e.g. a number) of the tap node can be labeled in the plan.The tap is visible in the "Engineering Profile".It would be helpful if this could also be displayed and labeled in the profile view/drawing. How it should work: Tap Node i...
almost 4 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Auxiliary Lane Analysis with Speed Profiling

https://www.civildesigner.com/auxiliary-lane-analysis-with-speed-profiling/ Speed Profiling When considering the location of climbing lanes the civil engineer will combine an analysis of the size and length of the grade change with the speed profi...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 5 Future consideration

Add Cut and Fill Volume to Profile Framed Annotation

requesting the ability to annotate Cut/Fill volume in profile frame annotation. Please check a sample screenshot from an 12d output
over 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Ability to Export/Import Alignment With ALL Parts

Currently, the only way to export/import alignments appears to be using LandXML. Currently this does not appear to allow Exporting and Importing Event Points that are part of an Alignment. Since DGN's can be corrupted, there needs to be a method t...
almost 4 years ago in Geometry / Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Enhance Generative Components so that it can be transferred to analysis models

The parametric model, Generative Components, does not allow transfer of elements to analytical models such as RM Bridge and LEAP. Please update functionality so this is possible.
7 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration