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Export to IFC/Export to SHP/Export Geometry to reprojected coordinate system

Part of our design process includes exporting Geometry lines to XML and exporting both IFC and SHP files. These assets get loaded into our GIS system. However, during the design process, we design off of a modified coordinate system, and our GIS s...
8 days ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Modify the LLS part when placing a turnout.

Currently one could add an LLS part on a turnout. Unfortunately this is a standard value. Sometimes, when creating a horizontal geometry, it is necessary to ''shorten'' the LLS part (aka to place a fewer amount of long sleepers that a standard LLS...
8 days ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Create a tool that constructs transitions between different types of rail sections

Sometimes in track design, one must use different types of rails, say 60kg and 50kg rails. One could weld them and grind them together but this is a crude method. In Sweden they use what is called a transition rail, which in principle contain a sm...
8 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Civil Labeler - Plain Text Placement

Currently, civil label fields are dependent on the associated element that provides the field information for the label. There are a number of label types that do benefit from being able to pull from multiple civil features, however their resultan...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Open API to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies.

It would be extremely helpful, if we were able to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies so that automation of the creation of new 'Custom Drainage Features' every time a drainage structure had a different bottom box (...
almost 2 years ago in All Other / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration
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Ability to Update Annotation Groups

Currently for drawing model annotation groups, if the user wants to update the annotation, they would need to remove the outdated annotation group, which would removal all annotation groups, and then reapply all annotation groups. It would be nice...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

import parcels, survey chains, lines, curves, spirals from GPK

Since GEOPAK is no longer supported. I have heard from Bentley time and time again that we can get to our data out of the GPK and import it into ORD. BUT this is only true for chains, profiles and points. What about Parcels? survey chains? lines? ...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Planned

Creating a Surface Area Report

A physical report containing all surface areas and total area. Application use cases for this would include: -Useful for project planning and cost estimation. -Help determine material quantities. -Assists in environmental impact assessments by pro...
3 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Plan-Profile-Profile drawing/sheet creation with named boundaries

Plan-Profile[LT]-Profile[RT] (and Profile[LT]-Profile[RT]) sheet creation for LT/RT split/bifurcated profile grade lines has been requested more frequently by our internal designers and our consultant designers. We have a workflow that can accompl...
about 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Automatic Dimension Masking

Need to have the ability for dimension lines that cross other dimension lines be automatically masked. This has traditionally been done by adjusting extension lines, but with associative dimensions, this is not feasible. The order of dimension pla...
16 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration