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Create Existing CL from Rails or from regression line

Existing Center Line is critical information. We must be able to create such a line in an easy way without having to apply workaround, 3/4 steps workflow or MDL.It means H+V+existing cantIn the past we had a single box to check to create this exis...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / Regression Analysis 0 Needs review

Dynamic Tables

For the geometry review; setting out or other OpenRoads/OpenRail tables, if we can place the table/report into DGN design model, once the geometry or model is updated, the values of the table placed in the design model is also updated dynamic. sim...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 1 Future consideration

Civil arc defined by 3 tangent points

Something very useful in MicroStation and AutoCAD is the ability to define an arc by 3 tangent points. The elements could be of any type and each point would belong to a different element.
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

OBM Rebar Modeler Concrete Solid Overlay Level

It would be very useful to be able to assign the element template and/or level to the concrete solid overlay when defining it, similar to how you can assign level when doing an associative extraction.
4 months ago in  0 Future consideration

A tool to identify the actual XY coordinate location of a high or Low Point on a terrain

Currently we can Analyze Element to obtain the range high and range low for XYZ of a terrain, but that XY value does not reflect the coordinate of the actual range high/low Z, it just gives the highest/lowest XY in terms of the coordinate number. ...
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Terrain 4 Future consideration

Ability to switch the priority of other end conditions within the end condition editor as an override.

Currently there is no way to use end condition exceptions and as an override switch between other end conditions within a certain station range. A simple addition to the override feature where you could temporarily change the priorities of the end...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

GEOPAK-like Drainage Tools

I would like to see tools added to ORD that would mimic the Drainage Tools found in GEOPAK. Specifically, I would like to be able to visualize Drainage Patterns. I envision this be something that could be added to a Terrain Feature Definition, sim...
almost 4 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration

Surface template-Don't stop the tool after one action

It would be useful to stay in the same tool after one surface template has been placed, similar to all other tools in OpenRoads. At the moment, I have to pick the tool again everytime I want to place a surface template.
8 months ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Make profile active without opening profile view

It would be useful if some of the profile tools (quick profile from surface, profile from surface, etc) had a toggle to allow the profile to be set as active when it is created. This would make it more efficient in cases like when you need to crea...
almost 3 years ago in Geometry 1 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