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Improve Civil Labeler placement workflow

When placing a civil labeler, the text displays the field formula and that usually is some big text. The leader placement preview takes this enormous text in consideration and 99% of the times the placement we get is off from the desired, because ...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Option to overwrite Saved views when reprocessing named boundaries to sheets

Allow a checkbox to choose to overwrite or replace existing saved views when re-processing a set of named boundaries for output to sheets. This will help to maintain order in the files and avoid excess unused items. If not creating another 'versio...
almost 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotation Group > Label to include a field to setup the leader line to offset from the origin/start point

The Annotation Group (and Civil Labeler) do not have any way to configure the leader line to offset from it's origin point. There are several DOTs who need to accomplish this for plans production. I included a screenshot showing the desired necess...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Design Scenarios to change proposed conduit properties and class based on depth of conduit.

The class of a pipe is primarily selected by the depth of cover over a pipe. Sometimes vehicle loads or construction loads have an influence on the class selection
almost 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Infill grading tool

Provide a tool to quickly create infield gradings. When creating infield gradings, often we only to include part of a geometry element instead of the entire element. Because the terrain from element tool doesn't have the option to only import part...
almost 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

GenerativeComponents - Alignment Node

Special Node/Option for Full recognition/utilisation of Alignment in GenerativeComponents. Since GC made it's entry into Civil products, it is vital that it gets tools (Node/-s) vital for closer cooperation with Civil Packages who make us of Align...
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / Modeling / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 1 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - Defined Rotation Angle

We place grade elevation labels on our plans typically at a 30 degree angle from the view. Currently, the civil labeler only allows for rotation to be set to "View Horizontal" or "View Vertical" regarding placement as it relates to the active view...
about 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Option to display all cross sections in one model

Our designers would still like to display all cross sections generated by the Drawing Production tools in one model so that the designer can analyze them as they wish in one view rather than looking at them sheet to sheet or drawing model to drawi...
almost 4 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 7 Future consideration

Refresh or Update All Drawing Model Annotations

I would like a tool to 'refresh' or 'update' all drawing model annotations at once. Instead of having to 'Remove Drawing Model Annotations', then run the 'Annotate Drawing Model' command, I would like an option for the program to do this in a sing...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration