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Swept path tool - meshes and features for front, mid and rear positions of the vehicle for calculation step gapss

To design platform coping strings and walkway edge strings in tunnels To calculate step gaps between the vehicle step edge and walkway / platform edge For trucks, cars, and trains.
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Allow for Densify Horizontal Value and the Densify Vertical Value fields unlocked in order to give more user control to corridor stroking

We need improved stroking control for corridors. Currently stroking for corridors is defined by configuration variables i.e. CIVIL_DEFAULT_CURVE_STROKING and CIVIL_DEFAULT_PROFILE_STROKING, for horizontal and vertical curves respectively, which ta...
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 6 Future consideration

Remember the Last‑Used Civil Label in Civil Labeler

Description Why it’s useful: During plan production, users place the same label repeatedly. Requiring them to navigate the full label tree every time adds unnecessary friction and breaks workflow momentum. Who benefits: High‑volume plan producti...
6 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Turnout points for tounge position

In railway engineering, there is a growing demand for positioning of the tongue in turnouts. The proposal is to introduce a new point in the Feature Definition of turnouts, making it possible to specify the distance from point .1 to the Tongue. Su...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to target drainage structures

I'd like for a corridor to be able to target drainage structures. When I have an RCB or end section the corridor end section should be able to target those things for the model to be accurate. I can fake it by adding surfaces on the structure to t...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

OpenRoads Compress Options

There seems to be a need to Compress or purge out unused OpenRoads Feature Definition, Feature Symbology, Annotation Groups, Annotation Definitions. Compressing out unused "Stuff" in a MicroStation DGN file seem to be a normal function of MicroSta...

Bulk updating of hydraulic grade line across multiple profiles and scenarios

Introduce a tool that allows users to update Hydraulic Grade Lines (HGLs) across all profiles simultaneously for multiple storm scenarios. Currently, when we want to display 3 storm events at once, we have to run it as a batch or child scenario an...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

IFC export using the current active View element symbology

The current IFC exporter only exports using the actual elements symbology and ignores Level Overrides, Reference level symbology changes, etc. This makes it very difficult to control, requiring users to actually physically edit the elements in the...
over 3 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Vertical geometry name to default to the horizontal geometry name

When I am doing feature modeling, such as intersections, I am creating a lot of features and profiles. I like things to have names so that I can easily identify them. In the workspace I am provided, the vertical geometry created for any given hori...
8 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 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 3 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration