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Turn OFF ORD snap by default

Turn off snap for ORD. Having the snap rule on by default causes so many problems for new users. Rules are created all over the place causing crashes and unnecessary processing.
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Multiple Objects Properties Color Change Option

When selecting multiple elements, it would be nice to have the color to be changed in the "Multiple Objects Properties" dialogue box. It makes you change each text string separately and takes a lot of extra clicks!
7 months ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Future consideration

Annotate the Dynamic Cross Section View

As a Designer I want the ability to annotate point elevations and dimensions like we are able to in the drawing model cross-section so that checking the model during design before cutting sheets helps us.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Copy an alignments from file to file with H+V+Cant+Turnout

Actually H+V+Cant can be only achieved through XML export/import.Turnouts are lost. It could help and simplify to have a command to copy an alignment from a file to another. Similary than what is happening when creating a civil cell, it would be g...
11 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Add a “Chord" Toggle to all the Horizontal Curve Tools

To have to go to the Back Stage and select Settings ==> File ==> Design File Settings ==> Civil Formatting ==> Degree of Curve Method to change from an Arc Defined Curve to Chord Defined Curve is not a good workflow. In our State we ca...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Temporary Dimension Lines in XSection Views

Currently in the XSection viewer in OpenRoads Designer if you have a corridor or linear template that touches our butts up against another corridor you can't place temporary dimension lines on those components to make measurements if the linear or...
over 3 years ago in Analytics / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Surface Template that allow holes

Surface template should allow the selection of any type of shapes, specially with holes. A tool to add new holes post creation would be wonderful too
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Insert Vertex tool

Tool that adds vertex at chosen interval to a selected element segments. The "facet" tool is supposed to achieve this, but it is not designed to respect original element vertexes. So it ends up modifing the element path. The tool should work insid...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Place Bearing Under Beams Tool Settings window order of the sections, Bearing, Grout Pad/Bevel Plate, and Bearing Seat

In the Place Bearing Under Beams Tool Setting window I'd like to see the Bearing and Grout Pad/Bevel Plate sections switched to reflect the actual order of the parts of a bearing, like the material list below it. So that the Grout Pad/Bevel Plate ...
11 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Allow the use of multiple Horizontal Feature Constraints in Point Properties

The ability to target multiple Horizontal Feature Constraints for a template point and set priority on those individual Features. Similar to Target Aliasing.
about 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration