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Catchment Sub Areas need to be more accessible

A catchment's subareas is ONLY accessible by opening the subareas collection. This limits the ability to streamline various workflows. At minimum sub areas need to be accessible from the following: Flex Tables - The current flex tables will only...
12 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Planned

Mesh vs Solid Toggle in Template Components

Need the ability set a component as a mesh or solid within the component properties in the template library. All components are current meshes which do not allow downstream consumption with certain software. The ability to toggle a barrier to be a...
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Implementation of fatigue design for cross frame individual members

In the ‘Code Checker Results’, the program summarizes for each girder all the critical load combinations, AASHTO code and controlling performance ratio. As in some diaphragm locations, the program is stating the girder is controlled by fatigue and...
6 months ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Evaluate the use of Lambda excess reinforcement for development length of steel used in design

I agree that the excess reinforcement factors would be different for each POI and load case. That is one reason most engineers conservatively ignore that factor. A simple or temporary solution is to set that factor equal to 1. I believe that AASHT...
6 months ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Getting Vertical Alignment Properties from a Vertical Alignment Projection

In OpenRoads Designer, the user would like to be able to get the vertical alignment properties/information such as slope from the vertical alignment's projection through a text favorite or other command.
12 months ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to set up a profile annotation group to place a single annotation for a complex profile.

Ability to set up a profile annotation group to place a single annotation for a complex profile. When we go to Annotation group we don't have option to placing single annotation for the element.
12 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Apply annotation group text as graphic group for simpler management of data

Apply element annotation group text as graphic groups for simpler management of data so that users can turn on Graphic Group lock and use the delete tool to select one text element and it will delete all elements in the graphic group. So users cou...
12 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Triangulation Limit Shape to "Create Terrain by Graphical Filter"

We have issues with creating a terrain by graphical filter. The command grabs all filtered features in a file(s) and adds them to a terrain. The problem with this approach is areas with a gap are ignored and triangles span gaps causing one large t...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration

OBD-- Leap Bridge Steel Cross Frame to be assigned as primary or secondary elements as additional criteria

From the user: "I have a straight steel bridge no skew and it is classifying cross-frames as primary members. Is there away to set cross-frames as secondary member for kL/r check?" This happens because All elements are only set as primary, without...
6 months ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Customize Superelevation Colors

As a highway designer I want the ability to customize the colors used for the superelevations.
almost 3 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration