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Drainage and Utilities

Ability to add lines and points to drainage cells (2D/3D)

Revised Justification for DU Cell Enhancements If Drainage and Utility (DU) cells could incorporate linear and point features, these elements could be utilized as break lines within graphical filters for terrain modeling. Additionally, such featur...
28 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Allow Annotation group 'label' settings to work with D&U

A new annotation filter setting (Label) was introduced in OpenRoads 2025. This setting works well to place callouts for corridor components, however when drainage/utility features are selected, we run into issues as shown below. The callout does n...
2 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Tool for moving multiple nodes at the same time

A tool to move multiple nodes at the same time is needed in ORD as such tool or functionality was not observed with ORD. This is helpful for situations where the nodes will be offset by a certain distance due to the buildings or other constraints ...
30 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

OpenRoads/Flow Masters Calculation and Annotation

PowerInroads used to have a built in calculator/analyzer. It helped us to quickly calculate the drainage pipe information, minimum slope and velocity at full value etc. Currently to get the data, we use Flow Masters and manually calculate each pip...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration
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Open API to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies.

It would be extremely helpful, if we were able to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies so that automation of the creation of new 'Custom Drainage Features' every time a drainage structure had a different bottom box (...
about 3 years ago in All Other / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Trench Templates to automatically constrain themselves based on the pipe size

Trench templates are used on pipes for fill quantities. It would be useful if you could place a trench that would automatically assign parametric constraints based on the size and pipe thickness of the pipes. Also, shapes other than a circle are d...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Parametric capability for the placement of Node and Conduit feature definitions

This would dramatically reduce the requirement for a vast number of library cells and feature definitions to be created
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Ability to extend profile runs

I would like the ability to control the limits of the profile run in profile sheets which would also allow me to control the stationing without having to create a separate alignment and project the drainage run into the separate alignment.
8 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Update element DU properties to match prototype

Introduce a dedicated button that, when clicked, updates a DU elements properties that has already been placed in a DGN file to match those currently assigned to the prototype that is assigned to the feature defintion in the updated dgnlib. This w...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Drainage and Utilities to support non-drainage pressure pipes

Pressure pipes are essential components of many engineering systems, such as water supply, oil and gas transportation, and power generation. To design and manage these systems, engineers need features that can model the geometry and properties of ...
almost 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration