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turn on "settings from design model" via variable for all sheet seeds

The new setting called "settings from design model" is a great feature, allows plan view updates in the design model to propagate to drawing models and sheets. so its basically a "container" file. unfortunately, this is set in the sheet seeds only...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Add Geopak Pattern Lines

In previous products, the user was able to drawing a pattern lines by inputting stations and offset lengths (for an individual station or for the entire alignment length). The new process of creating pattern lines with Civil AccuDraw is a massive ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer 4 Future consideration

Normal cells to export ItemTypes data to IFC in OpenRoads Designer

The IFC Export in ORD is very good, but it needs improving to enable normal and orphan cells to export ItemTypes data to the IFC output, currently only shared cells will do that.
6 months ago in  0 Needs review

Invalid Element. Unable to solve rule please correct element construction.

We would like to get some more information when this message appears, e.g. full explanation about what is wrong. When we are breaking a rule ORD should keep history and detailed explanation about what is broken, get a better history and presentati...
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Drainage Structure Analyzer

Please include a tool similar to the Drainage Structure Analyzer from Inroads Storm and Sanitary. This tool is very useful for quick sizing without having to set up a model, especially with culverts and channels.
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Need to have an option for manual/automatic corridor processing

There is an existing option to deviate rules on a corridor. This is inconvenient and difficult to use because of the workflow associated this it: select A corridor -> deactivate rules, then select A corridor -> enable rules -> process (th...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Staged Construction Optionality

Staged construction is a very common construction methodology. The current process of modeling staged construction in OBM is to model each stage as separate bridges. This creates problems when modeling a steel I-girder bridge as the cross-frames b...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Needs review

Point Table using MicroStation Table Styles

This would literally save large projects 100s of hours. Plus having points in tables that are ruled eliminates so many chances for errors. Other civil products have had this feature for years. Creating grading points on plans is so easy when table...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Ability to edit Annotation Groups in any model

It's a little cumbersome to keep going back and forth between models when developing annotation groups. An alternative could be to be able to select the geometry that is shown as the example when in the annotation group manager.
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration