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Display profile rules in plan view

It's difficult to see which geometry elements are connected or ruled via persist snaps in the element profile. Add profile dynamic annotation and elevation dynamic fields to plan view. Add profile persist snap glyphs in plan view to show the conne...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Corridor element override

End condition override tool allows edits to part of the template for a selected station range in plan view, but the tool only works with end condition components. Update the tool to allow overriding any component or part of the template.
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Restore a tool similar to the removed "Asset Manager"

in the new ORailD / ORD we removed the "Asset Manager" tool; in my opinion this tool is useful for several workflow to assign Item types values from an external souce like Excel and avoid the manual attribution of the Item Values.
almost 2 years ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Will not implement

Ability to superscript and underline the decimal digits for spot elevation annotation

Currently it is not possible to format only the decimal digits of the annotation. The user wants to annotate the spot elevation in a custom format where the decimal units are having superscript and the underline. The option from DIN Dimensioning o...
over 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to turn on and off geometry and switches by track

Currently OpenRail Designer allows to turn on and off geometry according to FD. However, there are cases where it is more useful to turn on and off tracks by track name, rather by FD. This could help the process of creating drawings faster. Simila...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Precision Setting When Labeling Surveys with Numeric Attribute Values

All Attributes are currently treated as text. Some attributes are recorded as numeric data and are being assigned a decimal precision. When these are read to generate labels, there is no option to round those values to a different precision. For e...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Parametric rebar cages

Bridge engineering would greatly benefit from having rebar cages that are parametric in nature so we do not need to start over on rebar when a design change occurs.
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

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...

Create Cross Section using Referenced Named Boundaries

I would like to be able to create cross section by referencing other cross section named boundaries, similar to plan named boundary functionality.
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Channels Attach to other nodes besides headwall

If ditches do become channel features, KYTC would need channels to then be able to attach to other node types besides headwalls since we have many conditions and locations where they outlet into inlets of various types.
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review