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Geometry Connector: automatically use turnout radius when connecting an arc to a turnout

When using Geometry Connector to connect turnouts, it is often that we must extend the last arc of the turnout. Because the arc is in the turnout we cannot extend it. Instead, we must add an arc of same radius. It would be nice that in such situat...
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Local edits to a template, now out of sync with library.

It would be nice to see what local changes were made, to a template, before Sync'ing to library. It currently notifies user that there changes made, but doesn't show what those changes are. It is difficult to know what changes may have been made t...
3 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Drop Leading Zero in Civil Reports and Text Favorites

When utilizing civil geometry to create a parcel and then creating a Legal Description report within the Civil Reports, the software add a leading zero to a bearing of less than 10 degrees. For example, "North 07 degrees 09 minutes 12 seconds West...
3 months ago in Annotation / Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Linear Template - the BSplines warning is not helpful

When you place a Linear Template on a splined element a warning is generated which requires user interaction to dismiss: "Warning: The base geometry selected for this corridor contains B-Spline elements for the horizontal Transitions. Consider rec...
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Elevations to the Event Point List Table

The elevations of the event point can only be seen when one generated a Horizontal Alignment Event Point List Report. It would be better also if the elevations can be seen earlier in the Event Points List Table
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a property to apply terrain feature type to civil elements.

Set the terrain feature type for template points (breakline, boundary). When creating a terrain from a corridor, this would automatically create the exterior boundary eliminating the need for trimming edge triangles. Provide this same functionalit...
3 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Rules between reference files

Indicate in the reference manager if Civil Rules exist between files. When attempting to create a snap rule to an element that is in a reference file display a warning message. Prevent circular reference errors created by snap rules between refere...

Civil Cell Creator/Editor

Develop an improved Civil Cell Editor user interface. Similar to Inroads Template Library. Add features and components, define parametric constraints, create terrain/mesh. Include explorer functionality to edit individual features/components.
3 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add temporary/permanent button on civil analysis tool for placing graphic elements, or at least make them a graphic group to make removing them easier and more complete.

When I use the civil analysis tool, I sometimes place the displayed graphics (elevation, contour, triangle) into the drawing to have a record. The problem is when I am done with the graphic and want to remove them, I have to select each component ...
3 months ago in Analytics / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add reading/editing alignments with shifts with table editor

I have a horizontal and vertical alignment with a shift. If you load the vertical alignment into the table editor, it does not load all the VPI's. It skips one of the VPI's at the shift location. Also, if you export the vertical alignment using th...
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration