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Reattach Corridor on linear templates

Reattach corridor was recently disabled for linear templates and the only way to edit such corridor is to create new one from the scratch.
11 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads 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).
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Ability to lock profile when start stationing changes

Right now (2022 R1) if an alignment with a profile is extended in the start, the profile moves together with the start of the alignment. Two wishes: Possibility to lock the profile elements in their present position. Possibility to move the whole ...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Bring back the “NE=” key-in command.

U.S. surveyors traditionally work in Northing & Easting, in that order. When working with Microstation V8i, AND with Inroads loaded, the user could perform precision drafting by using the “NE= “ key-in to enter the exact northing/easting coord...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 4 Future consideration

Line and Curve Tables for both Alignments and Parcels

Need tools for creating Line and Curve tables with smarts. Geopak D&C had a tool for creating line and curve tables. Why doesn't OpenRoads have tools for this? Needs to be smart so that as changes are made to the geometry the data in the table...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Bridge drainage system

OpenBridge does not seem to have a dedicated functionality for drainage system. I have seen solution in OpenBuildings, it looks quite decent. Just to clarify, when I refer to a drainage system, I mean elements like drip pipes, scuppers, vertical p...
5 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Ability to Synchronize ITL to a Master ITL

Either add ability for multiple users to be in the same ITL and save the information. At the moment we run a separate ITL for segments of a project which leads to slight differences to similar items. It is cumbersome to use the template library or...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Productivity enhancements to Corridor Objects dialog

There are currently some things needed to be added to the Corridor Object dialog to help communicate design intent a bit better to users (especially with Parametric Constraints): The lack of information as to the rules linked to Parametric Constra...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Use Cells for creation of sleepers

Support use of cell definitions for sleeper placements. Long sleeper sets placed at turnout locations, have variable width so these will still be using existing box shaped sleepers but normal sleepers will be using the cell based definitions. This...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Invert Terrain Elevation

ASCII elevation data from hydrosurveys is delivered in positive depths making for an embankment instead of a channel. A function to multiply elevations by -1 would save a trip through Excel or a GIS program.
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration