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Modify Civil Label Settings After Placement

I am looking for a tool to modify the label settings after a civil label has been placed. In SS10, we had plan view labeler which could choose your style, delineator, and leader before placing and then after it has been placed it there was an edit...
2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / 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
249 VOTE

Ability to define the slope of any points within the dynamic section using the measure tools

Having the ability to quickly check both existing and design crossfall/superelevation would increase efficiency within the program as there would be no requirement to run a template and report to evaluate existing cross slopes
over 3 years ago in Annotation / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Start & End Item Type Expression for Extents

There should be an item type expression available that can provide the station to station extents of an element. Currently Bentley provides expressions for begin and end Station that correspond to the stationing at the beginning and end of the ele...
4 months ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration
203 VOTE

Ability to annotate slope between linear features in plan using the Civil Labeler

Ability to annotate the slope between two linear features in plan. Currently we can only annotate station and offset but it is very common for designers to check cross slopes.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration
171 VOTE

Annotate Superelevation Stations In Plan View

Ability to annotate superelevation transition locations (NC, LT, LR, FS, etc.) points with slope direction indicators in plan view.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration
164 VOTE

Reassign/Reattach Civil Labels

It would be nice to have the ability to reattach civil labels to a new element or terrain. A good example is for jointing/geometric sheets with a lot of spot elevations. Fairly often a new terrain is created and the spots break and need to be repl...
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration
157 VOTE

Show and annotate projected points on profile view

Show and annotate projected points on profile view. This is for dynamic and drawing production profiles.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Annotate Slope of terrain between points in Cross Sections

Civil labeler only works for 3D linear features (points). It`s impossible to annotate the slope from the terrain between two points. If you try that, the whole terrain section is selected and the command fails. A great example is a cross section o...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration
114 VOTE

Ability to Update Annotation Groups

Currently for drawing model annotation groups, if the user wants to update the annotation, they would need to remove the outdated annotation group, which would removal all annotation groups, and then reapply all annotation groups. It would be nice...
about 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration