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Plan Annotation by station range

It would be useful to have the ability to annotate only part of the horizontal alignment. There are situations where we need to have several different annotation groups along the alignment.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Composite Section Forces for Shell & Beam Elements

Every other software that we use has an option to "compose" the forces from an individual set of shell and beams cross section at a specified location using a given effective shell width, for example two that I use: LARSA has "Compound Element For...
about 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Planned

Label all the points in a superelevation section with Civil Labeler

Superelevation is a tabular note that goes on the general info sheet with the super elevation diagram, so we usually just fill out the info in that tabular note. Designers just blow up the tabular note to add lines and make it work per project. If...
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Add latitude and longitude values to Report Browser

The raw-xml is missing Latitude and Longitude information when creating reports. InRoads had this capability, but it appears to be missing from OpenRoads.

Add reference alignment elevation to the "point feature station offset elevation report"

Current report only reports XYZ of the point and station along alignment. Elevation on reference is basic information needed. Unfortunately civil expression in item type doesn't work in 2024 to workaround (CivilExpression.ElevationStart(this."Refe...
about 1 year ago in Reports 0 Future consideration

Intersecting Alignment Stations Report

Replicate an Inroads workflow of creating an intersection alignment report whereby selecting 1 baseline alignment and multiple crossing alignments to generate stations along each pair of alignments in a report XSL. https://bentleysystems.service-n...
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 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...
about 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 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...
about 4 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 7 Future consideration

Inverse Tool - Be able to select fieldbook points and geometry points

There is an “inverse points” tool, but the key in for point numbers doesn’t work for geometry points, only for fieldbook points. Would like the report it created include an interior angle between three points (right now it only has the bearings ...
9 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Existing Cant

Currently in ORD existing cant can only either be viewed graphically in the curvature diagram or from within the cant editor. Current workflows to annotate existing cant in profile require the projection of both left and right rails in the vertica...
about 3 years ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration