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Report Station Equations in Horizontal Alignment report similar to GeoPAK

Horizontal geometry reports are confusing when there are station equations at cardinal points. A few of our surveyors have commented on this and I can see where they’re coming from. I’ve attached three example geometry reports. Their names ind...
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Specific model option for annotation

Would be nice to have an option to run an 'drawing model annotation' for specific models rather than just all or one. This could be helpful for cross section annotation if we want to use different annotation groups for different ranges of the cros...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Survey Field Book Enhancement

Users would like the ability to create multiple field books without the terrain connecting to each. This would be necessary when surveying multiple sites for one given road project. Currently, this is done by importing the data and then going to t...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Point Feature Symbology cell returns elevation

I want to place a civil point and the cell in its symbology returns its elevation. Main goal is to annotate terrain elevations with a cell in plan view. Best of worlds would be for Civil Labeler to accept cells so I could create some that would ta...
5 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Surface Template - Vertical offset

When working on sites and parking lot, sometimes we create a grading terrain to construct the slopes and low points than apply to it the pavement surface template. To model the sidewalks (think of a parking lot island) we create a clipped terrain ...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Text Favorite for Event Point Description

Need the ability to create a Text Favorite for the Description Field of an Event Point.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Variable for location of GENIO export mapping xml file

Many organizations like ours have a consistent and comprehensive export mapping scheme required for GENIO exports. Currently users need to copy a standard XML settings file and put it in their user prefs folder to get them correctly mapped for exp...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Design profile view needs to allow annotation of projected geometry element annotation

External geometry projected into the design profile needs to be annotated to better inform what / where they are and assist in design processes like matching instantaneous grade
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow changes to be made to OpenRoads Standards through Explorer while in Drawing & Sheet view/model etc.

Sometimes when a drawing view/model is generated and annotated etc. you realize that you want to make a slight tweak to one of the standards (annotation group for example) but you cannot simply just open explorer and make the change if you are in ...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add option to set forward/backward depth and forward/backward display while creating the cross section sheets.

When making named boundaries we were not able to select any settings or seed files that would let us select the options for forward/backward depth and forward/backward display. This means we had to go into each named boundary individually. Its imp...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration