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Edit Civil Labels

It is cumbersome to delete Civil Labels and place new ones when a simple change is required. Similar to how Geopak Plan View Labeler worked, it would be ideal if you could edit a previously placed Civil Label. Also being able to match a Civil Labe...
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

get quick slope measurement from dynamic cross section based off alignment (not corridor!)

I know if you open dynamic cross sections based off a corridor you can place temporary dimensions. but if you open a dynamic cross section based off the alignment you cannot place temporary dimension lines. I need an easy way to get what slope a g...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

START and END annotation for vertical alignment

I want to have the ability to annotate the Start/End of the Vertical Alignment (There is the ability to annotate the Start/End of a Line and the Start/Endof the Horizontal Alignment). There are many ways to annotate the start and end stations, how...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

ESRI ArcGIS import automatically handle unit conversions

We would like to see the ESRI ArcGIS import functionality enhanced to handle conversions on the fly without having to change the working units of the file. To provide context, we have a base DGN that has working and storage units for SVFT/SVIN. Th...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Terrain substitute tool

"Terrain Substitute” command that would swap all links from one Terrain to another, and also swap Parent Terrains for Surface Templates ( without breaking rules/relationships).
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Chevron Pavement Marking Tool

This tool would replace the old Geopak tool that created chevrons with minimal effort. It's certainly possible to create chevrons by hand with the current tools, but it takes significantly more time for what was a pretty quick task. I think the ol...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Create 3D Automatically should inherit elevations from civil points if you draw a civil line and snap to the points

For detail grade areas it would be nice to place points in plan view and snap lines to those points. The lines would have annotation groups assigned to them to label the slope and distance between the points. Grades could then easily be tweaked by...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Functionality Needed for Plotting Crossing Elements on long Profiles

User need functionality added back into OpenRoads that allows for crossing drainage, utilities, structures and roadways to be displayed on profiles. User know that 3D cuts are the recommended workflow for this, but they do not work when you have a...
9 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Organize named boundaries

Allow user to organize named boundaries including moving boundaries between groups and re-ordering within group etc. This would be particularly useful for cross sections and creating end area volumes. Sometimes we have to retrospectively create ad...
12 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Allow Annotation Groups to use "Place Text Along" from MicroStation

For a plan annotation group, the ability for annotation text on arcs/curves and spirals/transitions to be placed to follow the geometry centreline curvature. The present options only allow the text to be placed as a tangential/perpendicular straig...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration